Question

A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just lost her mother. Her pink clothes are full of blood and her eyes look at something only she can see.

Every day we see pictures like this on TV. We see Iraqi（伊拉克的）children asking for food and water from American and British soldiers when they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad. We see these children following parents, carrying bags of almost the same as their small bodies when they escape from their homes in Baghdad.

They show just some of the young lives that have been turned upside down by ongoing war.

“Dad, why are the Americans fighting against us? Are we going to be killed ?” asked the son of Abu, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain（解释）this war to his eight-year-old son.

He tries to make him feel safe by saying, “The bombs（炸弹）are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We’re going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows it isn’t always true, nothing else can be done. In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to try and let them escape from the sound of bombs. And all the schools are closed.

Now things are worse, and the ongoing war makes it impossible to count the number who are hungry, sick, hurt or even dead.

（　 ）61．What is happening to the children in Iraq because of the war?

　　 A．The children will get better than before.

　　 B．The children ask for food and water from American and British soldiers.

　　 C．The children in Iraq go back to their homes in Baghdad.

　　 D．The children live a most terrible life.

（　 ）62．The underlined word “ongoing” means “__________” in Chinese.

　　 A．正在进行的 B．非正义的　　　 C．未授权的 D．即将进行的

（　 ）63．The father does NOT tell the truth to the son because __________.

　 A．he will lose his country and his home

　　B．he wants to make his son not feel dangerous

　C．he is afraid to lose his son

　D．he is afraid of the American soldiers

（　 ）64．The war in Iraq tells us that __________.

　 A．the Iraqi people in the war are much hungrier and

　 B．we should help the Iraqi people build their country again　

　C．nothing can be done except fighting　

　 D．Both A and B.

（　 ）65．What’s the best title（标题）for this passage?

　 A．A Father and A Son　　　　　　 　　　 B．The Iraqi War

　 C．Iraqi Children During the War　　　D．A Dishonest Father

　

Answer 1

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