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.”
小题1:During the war, children are ______________.
A.studying at school B.safer than their parents C.in great danger
小题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.
小题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.
小题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
小题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.
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C
小题1:细节理解题，根据文中语句“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.”理解可知。战争期间，儿童处在极大的危险之中。
小题2:细节理解题，根据文中语句“The bombing(爆炸) destroyed her home and killed her mother.”理解可知。炸弹会随时让他们失去家园和亲人。
小题3:细节理解题，根据文中语句“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?”理解可知。他不想告诉他儿子事情的真相。
小题4:词义理解题，根据文中语句“to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing.”理解可知。“sleeping pills”是安眠药的意思。
小题5:细节理解题，根据文中语句““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.”
”理解可知。伊拉克人生活在恐惧中。