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A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. A bomb destroyed her home and killed her mother.

Every day we see pictures like this on TV or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children begging for food and water from American and British soldiers. They move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad. We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost the same size as their small bodies as they run away from their homes.

“Dad, why are the Americans attacking us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.

He tries to comfort him by saying, “The bombs are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, but what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed.

“All we can do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu. “People in Baghdad, men and women, young and old, have to live in fear. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”

1. The four-year-old girl’s mother was killed by ________.

A. some Iraqi soldiers B. a gun

C. a man in the hospital D. a bomb

2. What pictures can we see on TV or in newspaper?

A. Iraqi soldiers and people are fighting the Americans.

B. Iraqi children are begging for food and water.

C. American and British soldiers are attacking Iraqi children.

D. American and British soldiers are carrying bags of things as they run.

3. The children have to run away from their homes because ________.

A. their parents tell them to do so

B. they want to help the wounded soldiers

C. their homes are not safe to stay in

D. they want to fight the American soldiers

4. Abut Sinar _______.

A. is an American engineer

B. knows he and his family will be killed in the war

C. finds it difficult to answer his son’s questions about the war

D. doesn’t know how to comfort his son

5. In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills so that they will _______.

A. not hear the sound of bombing

B. not feel hungry any longer

C. stay safe in their homes

D. go to school the next day

6. During the war, children in Baghdad are _______.

A. still studying at school B. living a terrible life

C. are fighting at the front D. safer than their parents

7. From the passage, we know that people in Baghdad are ________.

A. helpless B. brave C. unhealthy D. independent

Answer 1

1D  2B  3C  4C  5A  6B  7A