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Choose the best answer. （根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案。）
A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms
of a doctor. She has just become mother-less. A bomb destroyed her home and
killed her mother.
Every day we see pictures like this on TV
or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children begging for food and water from
American and British soldiers. They move through towns and cities towards the
capital, Baghdad. We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of
things almost the same size as their small bodies as they run away from their
homes.
"Dad, why are the Americans attacking
us? Are we going to be killed? "asks the son of Abu Sinar, an lraqi
engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.
He tries to comfort him by saying, "The
bombs are far away from us. The Ameri cans are fighting the soldiers. We are
going to be all right. "Abu knows this isn't al-ways 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." People in Baghdad, men and women, young and
old, have to live in fear. We don't know where the next bornbs are going. We
can do nothing but wait to be killed. "
