He spent his money_______________.
A. lavishly
B. crackly
C. hard
D. painstaking
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Mice and rats are poisoned or trapped, while the gardener wages a never-ending struggle with ragweed, dandelions, slugs and root-rot. We have a modern arsenal of chemical weapons to fight off these invaders and we use them lavishly.Question: What do "chemical weapons" mean in this sentence?
A. guns
B. swords
C. arrows
D. insecticides
The urban message kids get runs completely counter to what they are born with, a natural interest in other life forms. Just watch a child in a first encounter with a flower or an ant — there is instant interest and fascination. We condition them out of it.What does the author mean by saying "we condition them out of it"?
A. Being influenced by adults, children lose their interest in other life forms.
Being influenced by adults, children are out of control.
C. Being influenced by adults, children are out of school.
D. Being influenced by adults, children are out of work.
In the text of Hidden Lessons, the author is astonished at how children in urban settings are taught to see nature as dangerous, or as a nuisance.Is it true or false?
A. True
B. False
(Unit8)And when we struggle to retain a handful of California condors or whooping cranes, it's clearly not from a fear of ecological collapse, it's because there is something obscene and frightening about the disappearance of another species at our hands.Question: What does "the disappearance of another species at our hands" mean?
A. We are holding some animals in our hands.
B. Some species are in extinction because we are not feeding them.
C. Some speicies can not be seen because we are covering our eyes with our hands.
D. We are directly responsible for the extinction of endangered speicies.