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.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母写出所缺单词。在填写答卷时，要求写出完整单词。（每空限填一词）

1.David can r__________ very fast. I’m sure he will win the race at the sports meeting.

2.It’s dangerous to swim in the r___________. It’s safer to go to the swimming pool.

3.Animals are useful. For example, we can get fresh m__________ from cows.

4.Your voice is very sweet. Would you s_________ a song at the English party?

5.Yao Ming, one of China’s best ever basketball player, is more than 2 meters t________.

Please ____ the lions. It’s dangerous to take photos with them.

1.. He is the tallest in our class. He is taller than the r_______of the students.

2. The river is three meters d____________. It’s dangerous to swim in it.

3. The land is c_______ with white snow now.

4. If someone o      me cigarettes, I’d tell him that smoking is bad for our health.

5. He was too poor to afford his education. I wanted to give him some, but he r         .

6.What would you do if you injured your             （膝盖）？

7. He was so careless that he ________（受伤）in the accident.

8. There are many book             (架子) in the library.

9. I think a good             (听者) won’t annoy others.

10.She is very               (知识丰富的) about art.

11.My teacher will become angry if I ______（be） late for class.

12. What would you do if a friend      (say) something bad about you?

13.If I_________（be）you, I’d wear s shirt and tie.

14. Kate is shy. She feels nervous _______（talk）in front of people.

15..He_________（tell）not to play computer games just now.

Please ____ the lions. It’s dangerous to take photos with them.

A．take off           B．get off            C．keep off          D．turn off