单选题 Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, "You work hard, and make a lot of money, and then the government takes most of it. I want easy work that gives me lots of money and that the government doesn't know about".
So he became a thief--but he did not do the stealing himself. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.
One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house just outside the town.
It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.
When he went back to Jim, he said, "That family can't have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there./

单选题 What Jim said can be said to be______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此题为推论题，从一开始就看到吉姆是一个聪明人，但是却希望不劳而获，于是他当起了小偷的头，因此推论，他所说的话只是借口。
单选题 Jim did not do the stealing himself,______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此题为细节题。短文的第二段内细节可知，他是自己不去偷东西，而安排其他的没有他那么聪明的贼去偷窃。
单选题 where did one of the thieves go to do the stealing?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】此题为细节题。从句子a large beautiful house just outside the town得知，这个小偷去的是一个住在城外的人家偷东西。
单选题 It can be concluded from the story that______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此题为推论题。在这次偷窃行动中，他空手而归并且报告说这并不是一家富人，因为两个人正在弹一架钢琴。因此推论出这个小偷是个十足的傻瓜。