C
Rat (老鼠) and Mole (鼹鼠) are at home all day. Mole is bored. He says. “I want to visit Badger (獾).” But Rat tells him, “Badger lives in the middle of the Wild Wood. It's a long way to go in winter.”
But Mole still wants to go. When Rat is sleeping, he puts on a coat and goes into the Wild Wood. It is cold and the sky is grey. At first it is fun. But then it gets dark. Mole sees strange little faces in the wood. The faces have sharp teeth. He hears strange noises and he is afraid. Poor Mole runs and runs through the wood. Then he sees a hole inside a tree and he hides there.
When Rat wakes up at home, he calls, “Mole, Mole!” But Mole doesn't answer. And Mole's coat isn't there. Rat thinks, “Mole is visiting Badger. Oh, no! Mole is in the Wild Wood!” He puts on his coat and puts a gun in his pocket. He goes along the path to the Wild Wood. He sees the strange faces with sharp teeth. But they see Rat's gun, and go away. Rat calls and calls. “Mole, where are you? It's me—Rat.”
At last, Mole answers, “Rat, I'm here! In the tree! I am very afraid!” He says in a little voice.
“Don't worry, Mole,” says Rat. “Let's go home now!”
But Mole is very tired. He wants to sleep, so Rat sits and waits. While Mole is sleeping, it begins to snow. The snow is white and it covers all the paths.
Later, Mole wakes up. Then the two friends set off through the white woods. Everything is different with the snow and soon Rat and Mole are lost. They walk for hours but they cannot find the way home. They are tired, and cold, and hungry.
Suddenly, Rat sees a sign in the snow. The sign says, “Mr Badger”.
“It's Badger's front door,” says Rat. He is very excited.
They ring the doorbell. “Who is it?” calls Badger.
“Oh, Badger,” cries Rat. “It's me, Rat, and my friend Mole, and we are lost in the snow.”
—Adapted from The Wind in the Willows
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)8. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?
A. Mole feels unhappy all the way.
B. It's easy for Mole to run through the wood.
C. Mole meets a lot of difficulties in the wood.
D. Mole goes into the wild wood with Badger.
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)9. When Rat wakes up at home, he goes
A
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A. to look for Mole
B. to hunt in the wood
C. to visit Badger too
D. to play with his friends
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)10. What is the right order of what Mole does in the story?
①Mole hears some strange noises.
②Mole feels nothing interesting at home.
③Mole and Rat lose their way in the wood.
④Mole is very happy to meet Rat in the wood.
A. ②①④③
B. ①②④③
C. ②④①③
D. ①③②④
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)11. What may happen next?
A. Badger doesn't open the door.
B. Badger lets them go back home.
C. Badger asks them to come in.
D. Badger tells them the way home.