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A crow(乌鸦) is about twenty inches(英寸) long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests(巢) in the trees. They sleep there at night.

Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns(轮流) like human beings(人类). It is easy to tell(判断) from crow’s sound if they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and some time later it dies too.

1.Crows “live on bad food” means “ _________ ”.

A. Crows eat old bad food.

B. Old bad food is crows’ nests.

C. Crows make their nests on old bad food.

D. Crows sleep on old bad food.

2.Crows are more useful to us because they ________________.

A. are clean birds B. can move away waste food

C. can make our streets clean D. aren’t dirty

3.Crows always look for food _________.

A. in the evening B. all day

C. in the morning D. at night

4.People can’t hear crow talk __________.

A. together B. by turns

C. noisily D. quietly

5.If a pair of crows loves each other, ________

A. they will not live together.

B. neither of them can live alone happily.

C. they will die.

D. one of them will die

I am my mother’s third girl. When I was born, the doctor gently explained to my mother that my left arm was missing, below the elbow(胳膊,肘). Then he gave her some advice, “Don’t treat her any differently from other girls.” And she did!

There were five girls in our family and we all had to help out. Once when I was about seven, I came out of the kitchen, “Mum, I can’t peel potatoes. I only have one hand.” “You get back to peel potatoes, and don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”

Of course I could peel potatoes—with­­ my good hand and my other arm. “Jenny, if you try hard enough,” she said, “you can do anything.”

Once in the second grade, our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bar(攀爬架). When it was my turn, I said no. some kids laughed. I went home crying.

The next afternoon Mum took me back to the school playground. “Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She praised (表扬)me when I made progress. I’ll never forget when I was crossing the bar, the kids were standing there with their mouths open.

It was the way with everything. Mum had the courage (勇气)to face anything. and she taught me I could, too.

1. How many younger sisters do I have?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

2.What does the doctor’s advice mean?

A. My arm could be all right soon.

B. The other girls had the same arms as me.

C. My mom should look after me differently.

D. My mum could treat me the same as others.

3.Who peeled the potatoes at last?

A. Jenny. B. Jenny’s mum.

C. Jenny’s sister. D. Nobody.

4.Why did Mum take me back to the school playground the next day?

A. She wanted to tell me I could do anything.

B. She wanted the teacher to let me try again.

C. She would punish the kids who laugh at me.

D. She would like to praise me before the other kids.

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. My bad-tempered (坏脾气) mother

B. Different mother love

C. A doctor’s advice

D. My childhood

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