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

Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad(巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they leave their homes in Baghdad.

“Dad, why are the Americans fighting 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（炸弹） are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, 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 do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu, “We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear(恐惧). We feel hopeless and helpless. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”

1.During the war, children are ______________.  

      A.studying at school       B.safer than their parents    C.in great danger

2.The children have to flee(逃离) their homes because_________.

A.it’s dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing.

B.their parents are not at home

C.they want to get food and water.

3.Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because___________.

A.he doesn’t want to tell him the real reason

B.he doesn’t want to tell a lie.

C.he doesn’t know how to explain it clearly.

4.“sleeping pills” are __________.

     A. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war.

     B.a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep

     C.a kind of food to make them strong

5.According to the passage we know that__________.

    A. all the children in Iraqi are looking for something to eat.

    B. all the children in Iraqi are thinking about something to solve the war problem

    C. the children in Iraqi are feeling fearful, helpless and hopeless during the war.

He was a single father, raising a 5-year-old boy alone. He worried about his son growing up without a mother to care for him.
One day he went away on business, leaving the child alone. He was worried about the child all the way, not knowing if he had eaten. But his child always told him not to worry. He went home quickly after finishing his work.
When he got home, the child was deep asleep. He was tired out. When he was about to sleep himself, he was surprised to find an overturned bowl of noodles under the quilt. He spanked his sleeping son angrily:"Why are you so naughty, making the quilt dirty? Who will wash it?" It was the first time that he had hit his boy after his wife's death.
"I haven't," the boy explained with tears in his eyes. "This is your supper, Daddy." In order to let his father eat dinner as soon as he got home, the boy cooked two bowls of noodles: one for himself, the other one for his father. He was afraid his father's noodles would get cold, so he placed them under the quilt to keep them hot.
Hearing this, the father hugged his boy tightly without saying a word.
【小题1】According to the passage we know the boy only had _________.

Richard found a job in a big office after he finished college. He liked to use his (1)_______ and was good at his job. So he was often paid more than (得到的报酬多于) his workmates and he worked (2) __________. But something was wrong with the young man a month ago. He couldn't fall (3) _________ at night. So he was always (4) _________ in the daytime and often made mistakes. He had to go to a hospital. The doctor (5) _________ and told him to buy some sleeping pills. He took them (6) _________ he went to bed. Soon after that he went to sleep. Richard  (7) _________ in the morning. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was a quarter to seven. He got up and went to work after (8) _________ . As soon as he went into the office, he said to the head of the office, "Good morning, Mr Clarke! I've (9) _________ had a good sleep like last night's and I'm feeling much better now!" "Skunk (混蛋)!" the head (10) _________ loudly. "We've looked for you for two days! I wanted you to do something important, but it's too late now!"

1.                A．hand           B．head           C．eyes D．feet

2.                A．hard           B．fast            C．harder   D．faster

3.                A．asleep         B．alone          C．afraid    D．awake

4.                A．well           B．hungry         C．thirsty    D．tired

5.                A．looked for him   B．looked at him    C．looked after him    D．looked him over

6.                A．after           B．because        C．before   D．if

7.                A．stood up        B．woke up        C．sat down  D．lay down

8.                A．lunch          B．dinner          C．supper   D．breakfast

9.                A．always         B．usually         C．never    D．often

10.               A．laughed        B．shouted        C．smiled D．asked

Richard found a job in a big office after he finished college. He liked to use his(1)___ and was good at his job. So he was often paid more than (得到的报酬多于) his workmates and he worked (2) _____ . But something was wrong with the young man a month ago. He couldn't fall (3) _________ at night. So he was always (4) _________ in the daytime and often made mistakes. He had to go to a hospital. The doctor (5) _________ and told him to buy some sleeping pills. He took them (6) _________ he went to bed. Soon after that he went to sleep. Richard (7) _________ in the morning. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was a quarter to seven. He got up and went to work after (8) _________ . As soon as he went into the office, he said to the head of the office, "Good morning, Mr Clarke! I've (9) _________ had a good sleep like last night's and I'm feeling much better now!" "Skunk (混蛋)!" the head (10) _________ loudly. "We've looked for you for two days! I wanted you to do something important, but it's too late now!"