1 . One night, a hedgehog (刺猬) was scanning the sky with his telescope, when he saw what seemed to be a spaceship flying to the moon. When he managed to properly focus on it, he found out that it was a craft belonging to an unfortunate Martian who seemed to have had an accident, and had to make an emergency landing on the moon.

The hedgehog realised that surely only he himself had seen this, so he decided to try to save the Martian. He called together a few animals to help. They couldn’t think what to do, so they called for more and more animals to join in. In the end, practically everyone in the forest was involved. It occurred to them that if they stood on top of each other, they could build a big tower and perhaps reach the moon.

That proved extremely difficult, and most animals ended up having had a finger in their eye, someone’s foot in their ear, and numerous bumps on the head. However, after much perseverance, they finally reached the moon and rescued the Martian. Most unfortunately, while he was coming down the tower of animals, the bear couldn’t help sneezing. Oh, the disgusting, invisible, tiny…!

The whole tower crashed to Earth with a great din including howls, roars, and other assorted animal cries. Seeing all this, the Martian thought that the animals would be very angry with him because they would blame it all on him. But it was just the opposite. As they recovered from the fall, the animals jumped and clapped with joy, happy to have achieved something so difficult together. The whole day was spent partying.

The Martian observed everything, and when he returned to his planet the other Martians were astonished at what had happened. And so it was those simple and helpful animals that taught the Martians the importance of working together, joyfully, in a team.

1. What can we learn about the rescue?

A．The animals celebrated for their success.

B．The hedgehog got all the animals to help.

C．The Martian had intended to travel to the moon.

D．The tower crashed because of the animals’ being exhausted.

2. What does the underlined word “din” mean in paragraph four?

A．Anger.

B．Force.

C．Noise.

D．Relief.

3. What might happen to the Martians in the future?

A．They will like to travel alone.

B．They will live on their planet joyfully.

C．They will always be ready for teamwork.

D．They will no longer travel through space.

4. What is probably the moral of the story?

A．There is strength in numbers.

B．A friend in need is a friend indeed.

C．One good turn deserves another.

D．Satisfaction from cooperation counts.