It's D.
The correct sentence should be "We saw a bird <span><span>with a long, yellow beak </span>sitting on a branch.</span>"
I believe the correct answer is naive.
The author is trying to say that he was ignorant, and that he couldn't understand properly these new revelations. He was either too young or too stupid to understand such a thing, but he believes he will as he grows older.
In the village described in "my father writes to my mother," when a woman speaks about her husband, it is customary for her to refer to him as her husband, the one whom she has given her commitment and trust towards the end of their lives. They have to stay in tact in order to live longer together.
<span>According to Ana Quindlen, other countries often handles deep ethical division “by separating to become new countries with a new name”. She adds that America's ethnic groups before the Cold war was the enemy of the US. Everybody together put off and fight against communism and war. </span>
The meaning of shut eye means to go to sleep