单元质量检测(二)
(时间：100分钟 满分：120分)
Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
One evening, two young men were walking in the street together. They tried to find a chance to steal something.
The clock struck twelve. Most of the people went to bed. Quickly they came to a house and it seemed that everyone in the house had fallen asleep. Standing at the front gate, one_said_in_English_to_the_other_in_a_low_voice,_“You wait here. I'll walk around to the back door and then get into the house.”
Suddenly out of the house ran a dog, barking at them. The two men were very frightened and ran away as fast as they could. Finally, they stopped at a lonely place. The man said breathlessly, “It's too bad. I hadn't expected that the dog could understand English.”
1．Why did the two men walk in the street one evening?
A．They couldn't fall asleep.
B．They wanted to steal something.
