a as as big rat_6．The rats in Newtown were ． A．as big as cats B．as ...

Today Newtown is a clean place, but manyyears ago there were millions of rats there. The rats even attacked (攻击 ) the cats and dogs.Sometimes many of them tried to bite men or women at night. The rats were verylarge in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.

The city office ordered every one to killrats. However, most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats. The cityoffice could do nothing with the citizens and could do nothing with the rats,either. Some time later, they had to pay some money for each dead rat. Thatmade the people very happy. They at once began to kill rats. They got as manydead rats as they could. And some of them even stopped their own work to killrats because they could get more pay. Every day a city official(官员 ) put all the dead ratstogether. He was very busy doing that, because sometimes a man brought hundredsof them in one day. Two weeks later, there were not so many rats in the city asbefore,  but people still brought many dead rats to the city office. Thecity officials felt surprised at this but at last they found out people werestealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to orderhis men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it. Soon there were no morerats and the city did not have to pay any more money for that.

1.The rats in Newtown were once ______A．as big as cats B．as dangerous as dogs

C．huge in size D．run into cars there

2.When the city office first ordered thecitizens to kill rats, most people ______.A．had to pay for each dead rat

B．stole dead rats

C．were too lazy to kill rats

D．killed nearly all the rats very soon

3.A big hole was dug so that ______.A．the rats could come out to attack people at night

B．people could take many rats

C．the people loved dead rats

D．people could not steal dead rats for money