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A small success at last in my battle to hold back the tide of mice flooding
A small success at last in my battle to hold back the tide of mice flooding
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2023-11-09
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A small success at last in my battle to hold back the tide of mice flooding my kitchen for months, crapping and snacking, even though, I promise you, every surface is tidily cleaned night and day, and not the smallest crumb of food left anywhere, ever, except in the humane trap, which has been packed with chocolate cake, peanut butter and cheese for ages, but ignored—until last Tuesday, when guess what? I wake up and find three mice all in it together. Three!
This is physically impossible. The trap is meant to snap closed after each mouse. They must have rushed together, holding paws. And they were extra small. Probably babies. Somewhere, in a deserted nest in my house, a mother mouse is bereft(伤心的)and weeping. But I have to toughen up about this mouse business. Even if they do have little ears and noses, I can’t let them play and wee(撒尿)all over the breadboard.
Luckily, I had a plan in place in case the trap ever caught any mice. I had a small animal travelling box ready for them, with a cotton-wool bed, sesame seed snack and water. So I tipped them into it and drove them to a distant park. I daren’t say where. I hoped they’d stick together for support, but they all ran away in different directions. It’s just one worry after another.
"Don’t be so serious," said Fielding indifferently. "Get a cat. It’ll chew them up in no time." What a heartless pig. Unlike my friend Elisa, who rang late that night in a panic. She had just seen a little mouse in distress, racing wildly about the Jubilee line platform, all alone, unable to get down to the rails, where its friends lived, because of those silly new barriers at the platform edge. I managed to calm her by pointing out that mice usually do go out alone, and three together was almost unheard of. Until my trap.
So this is another cautionary tale. Never allow your child to keep pet rodents(啮齿动物), as Elisa and I did. It only leads to emotional confusion in later life. [br] What can be inferred from the first paragraph?
选项
A、The author has decided to ignore the mice.
B、The author has forgotten about the food in the trap.
C、The mice were ignorant of the location of the trap.
D、The mice had ignored the food in the trap.
答案
D
解析
第1段说到虽然作者把厨房打扫得非常干净,且放置了放满食物的捕鼠夹,但老鼠从不“光顾”(ignored),注意ignored后面省略了by the mice,故应选D。该段开头的at last以及对厨房清洁情况的描述表明作者一直在与老鼠斗争,故A不正确;该段中的for ages容易让人误认为食物放在老鼠夹里很久了,以至于都被作者遗忘了,实际上作者提到for ages只是为了说明食物和老鼠夹放在那里很久了,却没有抓到老鼠,故B不正确;C中的ignorant虽然与原文中的ignore属于同族词。但ignorant是“不知道,无知”的意思,而ignore是指原本“知道”但“故意忽略”,可见两者并非同义词,故C也不正确。
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