A mouse looked through a crack(裂缝) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. “What food might this contain？”The mouse____.He was alarmed to discover that it was a mousetrap(捕鼠夹子)．
Going back to the farmyard the mouse gave a(n)____：“There is a mousetrap！” The chicken raised her head and said: “Mr Mouse, I can tell this is a big____to you, but it is of no consequence to me.I cannot be____by it.”
The mouse  turned  to  the  pig. “I  am  so  sorry，”sympathized the pig, “but there is____I can do about it but____.I will make sure that you are in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow.“Mr Mouse, I'm sorry for you，____it's no skin off my nose，” said she.
So he returned to the house, head down and___， to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house，like the sound of a mousetrap____its prey.The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she didn't see that it was a____ snake whose tail the trap had caught.The snake bit her.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital.She returned home with a fever.Now everyone knows you____a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took a knife to the____for the chicken.
His wife's sickness___so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.To feed them the farmer killed the pig.
The farmer's wife didn't get____and died.So many people came for her____that the farmer had the____ killed so as to____meat for all of them to eat.
The mouse looked upon it all from his____in the wall with great____.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember—when one of us is threatened, we are all at____.

A．whispered B．shouted C．wondered D．hesitated

A．warning B．message C．notice D．information

A．surprise B．concern C．result D．deal

A．bothered B．cheated C．murdered D．exchanged

A．anything B．something C．everything D．nothing

A．wait B．pray C．avoid D．prevent

A．so B．and C．but D．for

A．astonished B．puzzled C．depressed D．satisfied

A．catching B．protecting C．gathering D．collecting

A．poisonous B．nervous C．fat D．big

A．check B．treat C．abandon D．examine

A．room B．farmyard C．kitchen D．wall

A．appeared B．reduced C．disappeared D．continued

A．good B．safe C．quiet D．well

A．funeral B．event C．farm D．death

A．chicken B．cow C．snake D．pig

A．offer B．afford C．provide D．supply

A．house B．position C．crack D．expression

A．happiness B．sadness C．tiredness D．carelessness

A．peace B．risk C．sight D．work