Directions：Read the following three passages.Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A，B，C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.
   When I was growing up，my family kept chickens.We always had about a dozen of them at any given time and whenever one died off- taken away by hawk or fox or by some obscure chicken illness--my father would replace the lost hen.
   He'd drive to a nearby poultry farm and return with a new chicken in a sack.The thing is，you must be very careful when introducing a new chicken to the general flock.You can't just toss it in there with the old chickens，or they will see it as an invader.What you must do instead is to slip the new bird into the chicken coop in the middle of the night while the others are asleep.Place her on a roost beside the flock and tiptoe away.In the morning，when the chickens wake up，they don't notice the newcomer，thinking only， "She must have been here all the time since I didn't see her arrive." The clincher of it is，awaking within this flock，the newcomer herself doesn't even remember that she's a newcomer，thinking only， "I must have been here the whole time …"
   My arrival in India does likewise.
   My plane lands in Mumbai around 1：30 AM.It is December 30.I find my luggage，then find the taxi that will take me hours and hours out of the city to the Ashram，located in a remote rural village.I doze on the drive through nighttime India，sometimes waking to look out the window，where I can see strange haunted shapes of thin women in saris walking alongside the road with bundles of firewood on their heads.At this hour？Buses with no headlights pass us，and we pass oxcarts.The banyan trees spread their elegant roots throughout the ditches.

（1）What's the function of the first paragraph？

C

C

A．To tell readers her family background.
B．To work up reader's appetite for the text.
C．To introduce the following paragraphs
D．To make a summary of her childhood.
（2）When did the writer probably arrive in India？

B

B

A．8：00 P.M.
B．1：00 A.M.
C．7：00 A.M.
D．3：00 P.M.
（3）What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean？

B

B

A．Shelter.
B．Group.
C．Farm.
D．Chicken.
（4）Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage？

A

A

A．The writer takes a nap in the taxi.
B．The writer knows how to raise chickens.
C．Indian women work on their own.
D．Daily life in India surprises the writer.