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Why does it rain on the road?

  A small boy and his father were walking home in the country, when it suddenly began to rain hard. They did not have umbrellas with them, and there was no place to hide from the rain, so they were soon very wet.

  For a long while they were walking home through the rain, the boy wag thinking. Then at last he turned to his father and said to him, “Why does it rain, father? It isn't nice, is it?”

  “No,it isn't very nice, but it's very useful, Tom,” answered his father."It rains to make the Vegetables grow for us,and to make the grass grow for the cows and sheep."

  Tom thought about this for a few seconds, and then he asked, “Then,why does it rain on the road.too?”

  根椐短文判断对错(正确的写T,错误的写F)

(  )(1)When the father and his. son started to walk home, it was raining hard.

(  )(2)They went to a big tree to hide from the rain.

(  )(3)The rain stopped when they got home.

(  )(4)The rain isn't very nice, but it is useful.

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