Once I had a duck that laid six eggs, but she paid no attention to them. I also had a hen that
wanted to set, so I placed the duck’s eggs in the hen’s nest. The hen could not tell a duck egg from a
hen egg, so she sat on the six eggs. Five of them hatched as fluffy ducklings. Perhaps the hen could
not tell a duckling from a chick either. Anyway, she seemed to love them.
One day when I was eating lunch, I heard the mother hen clucking. She seemed to be in great
trouble. I thought a hawk might be trying to catch her little ones. I rushed out of the house, at the
same time yelling at the top of my voice to frighten the hawk away. Then I burst out laughing. The
mother hen was running up and down on the bank of the brook, clucking and scolding while her
five baby ducklings were having a merry time swimming and diving in the water!
【題組】19. Which of the following is implied but not stated in the passage?
(A) Ducks are lazy. (B) Hens are industrious.
(C) Chickens are afraid of water. (D) Hens are stupid.
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