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The practice evolved across cultures, from Japan’s smoke-making kakashi to medieval Britain’s “bird scarers.” Although crows can learn scarecrows do not harm them, adding movement, shiny items, and noise improves results. 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A crow circles, thinks twice, and flaps away to a safer tree. That silent field guard is a scarecrow, and people have been building them for far longer than you might guess. So who came up with the idea of scaring birds with a fake person, and does the trick actually work?  \nThe answer takes us back thousands of years to the banks of the Nile River in ancient Egypt. Farmers there strung wooden frames and nets along their wheat fields to protect the grain from hungry flocks of quail. Across the Mediterranean, the ancient Greeks carved wooden figures of Priapus, a garden god, and set them among the vines to guard the harvest. Even that long ago, people had figured out that a still, human-shaped shape in a field could keep birds nervous.  \nThose wooden guardians eventually traveled far beyond Egypt and Greece, taking on new shapes wherever they went. In Japan, farmers built the kakashi, a straw figure once hung with old rags and even bits of fish, then set on fire so the smoke and smell would drive birds off. Over in medieval Britain, young children called \"bird scarers\" or \"crow-scarers\" walked the fields waving rattles and clappers to frighten the flocks away. In other words, before farmers stuffed a shirt with straw, a real live child often did the scarecrow's job!  \nA child could not stand in a field all day, so people slowly built the stuffed straw figures we know today. A classic scarecrow is really just old clothes packed with straw, propped on a wooden cross, and topped with a hat or a turnip-and-cloth head. Here is the surprising part: birds are clever, and a crow will often figure out within a few days that the motionless figure never moves or hurts it. That is why farmers now add spinning tape, shiny objects, and loud noisemakers, because a scarecrow that changes and startles works far better than one that just stands there.  \nEven though real crows learn to ignore them, scarecrows have found a whole new life as a reason to celebrate. Towns across the United States, Britain, and Japan now hold scarecrow festivals in the fall, where neighbors build funny, creative figures and line them along the streets. In the English village of Kettlewell, families have made hundreds of scarecrows for a summer festival that draws visitors from all over. So the next figure you see guarding a garden may fool no birds at all, yet still do exactly what those Egyptian nets did long ago: make people stop and look.  \nScarecrows Around the World  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) What is the main idea the whole passage develops about scarecrows?\u003Cbr>A. They are a very old tool for guarding fields that has spread worldwide and now appears at festivals.\u003Cbr>B. They were invented in Japan and only recently spread to other farming countries.\u003Cbr>C. They were first built as decorations for fall celebrations and later used on farms.\u003Cbr>D. They are the single most effective way to keep every kind of bird away from crops. |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.  \u003Cbr>4.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) What surprising fact does the passage share about crows and motionless scarecrows?\u003Cbr>A. A crow cannot tell the difference between a figure and a person.\u003Cbr>B. A crow often learns within a few days that the figure never moves.\u003Cbr>C. A crow will avoid a straw figure for many years.\u003Cbr>D. A crow prefers fields with shiny objects and spinning tape. |  |  |  |  | 5.  \u003Cbr>6.  \u003Cbr>7.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 3) Why did the ancient Egyptians string wooden frames and nets along their fields?\u003Cbr>A. To give bird-scaring children a place to stand.\u003Cbr>B. To honor a garden god who watched the harvest.\u003Cbr>C. To create smoke and smell that drove birds off.\u003Cbr>D. To protect the grain from hungry flocks of quail. |  |  |  |  | 8.  \u003Cbr>9.  \u003Cbr>10.","cbCaihlKsRsy9JVR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihlKsRsy9JVR","pdf",89589,"English","# Scarecrows Around the World\n## Main idea and crow behavior\n## Ancient Egypt, Greece, and medieval Britain\n## Modern scarecrow features and changing purpose","[{\"question\":\"What is the main idea of the passage about scarecrows?\",\"answer\":\"Scarecrows are an old, widespread tool for protecting fields from birds, and their use has expanded into festivals and celebrations.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do farmers add spinning tape, shiny objects, and noisemakers to scarecrows?\",\"answer\":\"Because a scarecrow that changes and startles works better than one that stays motionless, even though some crows learn to ignore them.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the purpose of scarecrows change by the end of the passage?\",\"answer\":\"They still relate to protecting crops, but they also became a reason for people to celebrate through fall scarecrow festivals.\"}]","Scarecrows Around the World - Solve Each Problem | PDF",1790807594]