Mary and her sister are students. Mary is twelve years old and her sister is only eight. Their mother is very busy every day. Mary has hamburgers and eggs for breakfast but her sister doesn’t. Her sister has ice cream and chicken for breakfast. For lunch, Mary likes eating vegetables and salad but her sister likes eating French fries and carrots. For supper they have the same food and fruit.
All the kids in my neighborhood knew that on summer evenings, between 5 pm and 7 pm, the Ice Cream Truck* would visit our block.If it was quiet enough, we could hear the Ice Cream Man's song playing from one neighborhood over.Most of the time, though, we didn't hear it until it was almost too late.
The song The Piano Man came from the truck's loudspeaker *.It would start cries down the street of: “The Ice Cream Truck is coming! ” If the Ice Cream Man didn't see any kids on the street, he wouldn't stop.So we'd run as fast as we could to our moms for some dollars and coins, hoping to catch the Ice Cream Man.Younger brothers and sisters would usually go to the truck and make it wait while we fetched our money.The truck was white and square, like a mail truck, but with pictures showing the ice cream bars and Popsicles and their prices: “Superman bar $1.50; Choco Taco $1.00; Creamsicle $0.75.”
Our Ice Cream Man wasn't very friendly.He'd take our money through the window, go into the truck, return, and hand us our ice creams.Of course, he didn't have to be friendly-he had what we wanted: ice cream.
For most US kids, ice cream is the first thing we spend our money on.It is also our first understanding of the value of a dollar, and our first true love.
(1)
The Ice Cream Truck would come around ________ .
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A.
4 am
B.
6 am
C.
4 pm
D.
6 pm
(2)
When we heard the cry of the Ice Cream Truck, we would run to our moms for ________.
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A.
truck
B.
ice cream
C.
money
D.
picture
(3)
Which sentence is true according to the passage?
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A.
The Ice Cream Man handed us ice creams after taking our money.
B.
The Ice Cream Man took our money through the truck door.
C.
We entered the truck and got our ice creams by ourselves.