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     A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing

(轰炸)destroyed(毁坏)her home and killed her mother.

     Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children begging

for food and water from American and British 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 flee their homes in Baghdad.

     "Dad, why are the Americans striking(攻击)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(安慰)him by saying, "The bombs 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.

But 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 can do is to listen to and hear the war," said Abu. "We, all the people and the children,

have to live in fear. 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. fighting at the front

C. safer than their parents    

D. in great danger

2. The children have to flee their homes because ________.

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

B. their parents are not at home

C. they want to get food and water

D. they want to welcome the foreign soldiers

3. "Sleeping pills" are ________.

A. a place to keep children safe

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

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

D. a kind of food to make them strong

4. 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

D. it isn't good to tell him why