A. to      B. home      C. behind     D. fast       E. foreign    F. scared  G. joke       H. close     I. playing      J. so

 
One day a mother mouse and her babies were out. They were enjoying       games. Suddenly a hungry cat came up to them! The cat hid（藏）      a big tree. She could hear the mice talk. After the mother mouse and her babies knew what had happened, the cat jumped from her hiding-place and started    run after them.
The mother mouse and her babies began to run away. They hurried towards their        But the baby mice were    frightened that they could not run very       . The cat came        . What was to be done?
The mother mouse stopped running, turned round and faced the cat, shouting “Bow! Wow! Bowwow!” just like an angry dog. The cat was so      that she ran away. The mother mouse turned to her babies, “Now you see how important it is to learn a       language!”
Just then she heard a shout "Miao! Miao!" just like the cat.
“Oh, the cat's coming back. We must run right now.” The mother mouse called out to her children. “Haha! It's only a      ”said one of her children. “I have learned a foreign language.”