tailieunhanh - reading_part7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading_part7', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Unit 14 Looking for a rain god The family of the old man Mokgobja were among those who left early for the lands. They had a donkey cart and piled everything on to it Mokgobja - who was over seventy years old two girls Neo and Boseyong their mother Tiro and an unmarried sister Nesta and the father and supporter of the family Ramadi who drove the donkey cart. In the rush of the first hope of rain the man Ramadi and the two women cleared the land of thornbush and then hedged their vast ploughing area with this same thornbush to protect the future crop from the goats they had brought along for milk. They cleared out and deepened the old well with its pool of thing Can t you mind the porridge pot without letting the porridge burn And then they would beat tire rag dolls on their bottoms with severe expressions. The adults paid no attention to this they did not even hear the funny chatter they sat waiting for rain their nerves were stretched to breaking point willing the rain to fall out of the sky. Nothing was important beyond that. All their animals had been sold during the bad years to purchase food and of all their herd only two goats were left. It was the women of the family who finally broke down under the strain of waiting for rain. It was muddy water and still in this fight misty rain Ramadi inspanned two oxen and turned the earth over with a hand plough. The land was ready and ploughed waiting for the crops. At night the earth was alive with insects singing and rustling about in search of food. But suddenly by midNovember the rain flew away tire rain clouds fled away and left the sky bare. The sun danced dizzily in the sky with a strange cruelty. Each day the land was covered in a haze of mist as the sun sucked up the last drop of moisture out of the earth. The family sat down in despair waiting and waiting. Theứ hopes had run so high the goats had started producing milk which they had eagerly poured on their porridge now they ate plain porridge with no milk. It

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