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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 unknown chicken illness – my father would replace the lost hen.

He’d drive to a nearby chicken 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 farm in the middle of the night while the others are asleep. Place her 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.” And 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 on December 30. I find my luggage, and then find the taxi that will take me hours and hours out of the city to the destination, located in a remote rural village. I doze on the drive through streets, sometimes waking to look out the window, where I can see strange haunted shapes of thin women walking alongside the road with bundles of firewood on their heads. Buses with no headlights pass us, and we pass oxcarts. The banyan trees spread their elegant roots throughout the ditches.

【小题1】What do we know from the first paragraph?

A．The author was good at keeping chickens.

B．The author’s father could treat chickens’ diseases.

C．Chickens were more valuable than hens.

D．The number of the chickens was kept steady.

【小题2】When did the writer probably arrive in India?

A．8:00 P.M.

B．1:00 A.M.

C．7:00 A.M.

D．3:00 P.M.

【小题3】What does the underlined word “flock” in the second paragraph mean?