Active Reading(1) Unit 3: Ducks

I left for Hong Kong two weeks ago. Yesterday I came home only to find my garden full of weeds. I thought I had to pull them out. Weeds may be _____.

• animals

• vegetables

• wild grass

• trees

You should stand in line if you want to get on a bus. In other words, all of you should stand ________.

• face to face

• hand in hand

• arm in arm

• one behind another

Children like to be out in the open country, where they can run and jump freely.

"Open" means "________".

• empty

• big

• clean

• green

Jack sometimes makes himself look funny. For example, he will color every part of his face white, and his mouth red, and then wear a strange hat.

If something is funny, it makes us _______.

• laugh

• cry

• angry

• sad

If you have ever _____ to a farm or a zoo, you may have seen a duck. Ducks live in the open country, too. Ducks are birds. Ducks swim very well, and they like to live near water. So you may find them living near a lake.

• gone

• been

• returned

• flown

Ducks stay in the water most of the time. Their big feet help them swim well. But they are not very good at _____. Ducks making their way along the ground can look very funny.

• walking

• eating

• singing

• playing

As ducks swim, they put their heads under water. This is how they look ______ food. Ducks eat small water animals and bugs. They like some kinds of _____ too. So you see ducks eating grasses, weeks, or even parts of a flower.

• at, cats

• after, birds

• for, plants

• into, fish

Ducks can fly. In this way they are like most other ______. When winter comes, ducks fly to places that aren't cold. Sometimes the must fly very far to get to their winter homes. They stay there ______ winter ends. Then they fly back to where they came from.

• cats, after

• birds, until

• fish, because

• sheep, though

Baby ducks can run, swim, and find food right from the very start of their lives. They _____ fast. Soon they can fly. A mother duck keeps her babies together. This way, she can make sure that other animals don't hurt them. You may have seen a mother duck in the water _____ her little ones swimming after her in a line. It is really something to see!

• run, for

• swim, without

• eat, by

• grow, with

The passage is mainly about the ______ of ducks.

• kinds

• homes

• prices

• lives