Two thieves came to a house to steal something． They dug a hole in the wall of the house．
There lived many mice in the house．The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl（爬行）into the house,“Look! In es one,”she said to the man in the house．The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in．”But the thief outside , so he said, “Let us two try to crawl into the house together．”At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too．The woman saw the mice and shouted,“In e two．Catch them!”The two thieves were terribly frightened．The man in the house said, “You saw them e in, but where are they?I will catch them tonight．”The two thieves started running away at once．
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before．The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house．The man and the woman were ploughing（犁地）in their fields．The rein（缰绳）broke and the woman came home for a rope．She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some．She picked out two which looked like mice．At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up．The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said．“How they look like the two of last night．” The man said,“I asked you to fetch a rope．Why don’t you hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away quickly without their sweet potatoes．
【小题1】What is the writer’s purpose of telling the story?（within 10 words）
【小题2】Which sentence in the passage is closest in meaning to the following one?
Quite by accident, two mice also came into the house at that very moment．
【小题3】Fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to plete the sentence．（within 10 words）
【小题4】Why did the two thieves came before the house the next day?（within 20 words）
【小题5】Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese．
To tell a joke./To make people laugh.
网友回答
(答案→)To tell a joke./To make people laugh.
解析：
【小题1】写作意图题：从文章看作者是写一篇笑话。
【小题2】At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too．这两句话的意思相近。都表示两只老鼠碰巧从洞里爬了出来。
【小题3】上下文串联。根据下文他要两个人一起爬进去，说明他不相信的一个人的话。
【小题4】根据最后一段第一行The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before．说明他们想弄清楚对方夫妻是不是发现了他们。
【小题5】中英翻译。