Which of the following sentences is the main idea of this passage？
A．Children in the Old Country are not as happy as their counterparts in America.
B．America is a country in which the concept of children is more emphasized than any other countries in the world.
C．Adults in America are becoming increasingly useless.
D．Adults should learn from their children because they are more energetic.

听力原文：What else should the man do when the machine works？
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A．Shut the door.
B．Put in the soap powder.
C．Pay money.
D．None of the above.

She found it difficult to __ the fact that she had failed in the entrance examination to the college.
A．receive
B．accept
C．gain
D．obtain

A．She wants to finish her homework first.
B．She often goes to the bookstore.
C．She enjoys staying at home.
D．She enjoys reading books in the library.

The author thinks that Danes adopt a（n) ______attitude towards their country.
A．boastful
B．unpretentious
C．deprecating
D．mysterious

Task 1
Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should make the correct choice.
Your intelligence varies from season to season if you are like most people. You are probably much sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year. A famous scientist, Ellsworth Huntington, concluded from other men's work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.
He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of most people tend to
be lowest in the summer.
Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in the spring men's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.
Fall is the next-best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be good time to take a long vacation from thinking!
Ellsworth laid his conclusion on __ .
A．records of changes in his own intelligence
B．work with people in different climates
C．records of temperature change
D．all of the above