A four-year-old girl is literally eating everything in her home. Jessica Knight has been diagnosed with eating disorder Pica.

She started by eating her chair when she was two. This worried mum Kelly, 36, who tried to stop Jessica eating things. 

Over the last year she has eaten her bedroom carpet and two dolls. Her mother said: “I was really shocked when I realized just how much she was eating. If you lift up the carpet in her room now you can see there is nothing left.

“We try to keep her busy so she doesn’t do it but if we try to stop her she will find a way to do it.”To stop her I would have to remove everything from my house, including all chairs and sofas. 

Jessica refuses to eat foods with any sauces and Kelly is limited to giving her plain sausages, cheese strings, rice pudding, and bread.

“If I ask her ‘did you play in the sand pit today?’ when she comes home from preschool she says ‘yes but nobody saw me mummy’.

“She hides stones and sand in her pocket and eats it discreetly because she knows it’s not normal.

“But she replied ‘I don’t want her to copy me because I don’t want her to be poorly.”Kelly, who lives with her two girls and their engineer father Chris Knight, 40, now allows Jessica to keep a small purse filled with carpet sponge to help control her intake.

Kelly wants more UK research to be done on the condition.

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1.How old is the girl?

A 2

B 3

C 4

D 5

解析：选C。C 细节理解题。根据文章第1段第1句“A four-year-old girl is literally eating everything in her home.”可知。

2.What does her father do?

A An engineer

B A doctor

C A farmer

D A teacher

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据文章第8段第2句“Kelly, who lives with her two girls and their engineer father Chris Knight, 40”.可知。

3.What does the underlined word remove mean in Chinese?

A 开除

B 距离

C 移离

D 离开

解析：选C。C 词义猜测题。根据文章第4段第2句“everything from my house, including all chairs and sofas.” 可知。要用C。

4.Why did she eat the chairs?

A Because she got the illness eating disorder Pica.

B Because she didn’t like eating food

C Because her mother ordered her to eat them.

D Because her father let her eat them.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据第1段第2句“Jessica Knight has been diagnosed with eating disorder Pica .”可知。

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A A poor family

B A strange girl

C A beautiful bedroom

D A great mother

解析：选B。B 主旨大意题。根据第2段“She started by eating her chair when she was two. This worried mum Kelly, 36, tried to stop Jessica eating things. ”可知，故选A。