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阅读理解( 一 ) 3 Passage l Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal the bell on his neighbor’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home. Then he sat down to think, ?I must do something about the noise,? he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. ?Ah, Ill put some cotton in my ears. Then I wont be able to hear the noise.? The next day he went to the door of his neighbor, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor came running out. ?Steal my bell? Ill teach you a lesson,? the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose. The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell. ?Why did he come out just then?? he wondered. (192words) 1. The thief was trying to get his neighbors bell. A. T B. F 2. The thief put some cotton in his ears so as not to hear anything. A. T B. F 3. The neighbor ran out probably because he knew his doorbell was being stolen. A. T B. F 4. The neighbor hit the thief to punish him for stealing A. T B. F 5. The thief thought the neighbor couldnt hear the noise of the bell. A. T B. F Passage 2 Miss Grey lived in a small house. She was old and did not like noise at all, so she was very pleased when her noisy neighbor moved out. A young man moved in. And Miss Grey thought the man seemed to be quiet. But at three oclock the next morning, the noise of a dog woke her up. She thought she had never heard a dog there before. It must be the young mans dog. So she telephoned the young man, said something bad about the dog and then hung up the telephone before he could