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Why does the author say "spring cleaning can't wait"？

A. Because there will be more activities when it gets warmer
Because the air is fresher and the breeze is lighter.
C. Because the whole family is full of energy at spring time.
D. Because the snow is melting and the ground is thawing.

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I know when the snow melts and the first robins (知更鸟) come to call, when the laughter of children returns to the parks and playgrounds, something wonderful is about to happen.
Spring cleaning.
I'll admit spring cleaning is a difficult notion for modern families to grasp. Today's busy families hardly have time to load the dishwasher, much less clean the doormat. Asking the family to spend the weekend collecting winter dog piles from the melting snow in the backyard is like announcing there will be no more Wi-Fi. It interrupts the natural order.
"Honey, what' say we spend the weekend beating the rugs, sorting through the boxes in the basement and painting our bedroom a nice lemony yellow？" I say.
"Can we at least wait until the NBA matches are over？" my husband answers.
But I tell my family, spring cleaning can 't wait. The temperatures has risen just enough to melt snow but not enough for Little League practice to start. Some flowers are peeking out of the thawing ground, but there is no lawn to seed, nor garden to tend. Newly wakened from our. winter's hibernation (冬眠), yet still needing extra blankets at night, we open our windows to the first fresh air floating on the breeze and all of the natural world demanding "Awake and be clean!".
Biologists offer a theory about this primal impulse to clean out every drawer and closet in the house at spring's first light, which has to do with melatonin, the sleepytime hormone (激素) our bodies produce when it's dark. When spring's light comes, the melatonin diminishes, and suddenly we are awakened to the dusty, virus-filled house we've been hibernating in for four months.
I tell my family about the science and psychology of a good healthy cleaning at spring's arrival. I speak to them about life's greatest rewards waiting in the removal of soap scum from the bathtub, which hasn't been properly cleaned since the first snowfall.
"I'll do it," says the eldest child, a 21-year-old college student who lives at home.
"You will？ Wow!" I exclaim.
Maybe after all these years, he's finally grasped the concept. Maybe he's expressing his rightful position as eldest child and role model. Or maybe he's going to Florida for a break in a couple of weeks and he's being nice to me who is the financial-aid officer.
No matter. Seeing my adult son willingly cleaning that dirty bathtub gives me hope for the future of his 12-year-old brother who, instead of working, is found to be sleeping in the seat of the window he is supposed to be cleaning.
"Awake and be clean!" I say.
According to the passage, ". . . spring cleaning is a difficult notion for modern families to grasp" means that spring cleaning______.

A. is no longer an easy practice to understand
B. is no longer part of modern family life
C. requires more family members to be involved
D. calls for more complicated skills and knowledge

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What is the main idea of the passage？

A. Technology pushes the way forward for reading and writing.
B. Interconnectivity is a feature of new reading experience.
C. Technology offers a great variety of reading practice.
D. Technology is an opportunity and a challenge for traditional reading. TEXT B

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Which of the following statements is CORRECT？

A Western love marriage tends to miss some Japanese values.
B. Less attention is paid to the partner's qualification in arranged marriages.
C. Young Japanese would often calculate their partner's wealth.
D. A new arranged marriage is a repetition of the older type.

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听力原文：M: Have you finished reading the book you bought last month？
W: Oh, I didn't read straight through the way you read a novel. I just covered a few chapters which interested me most.
How did the woman read the book？

A. She read it selectively.
B. She went over it chapter by chapter.
C. She read it slowly.
D. She finished it at a stretch.

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Why does the author say "spring cleaning can't wait"？

A. Because there will be more activities when it gets warmer Because the air is fresher and the breeze is lighter. C. Because the whole family is full of energy at spring time. D. Because the snow is melting and the ground is thawing.

What is the main idea of the passage？

Which of the following statements is CORRECT？

听力原文：M: Have you finished reading the book you bought last month？W: Oh, I didn't read straight through the way you read a novel. I just covered a few chapters which interested me most.How did the woman read the book？

A. Because there will be more activities when it gets warmer
Because the air is fresher and the breeze is lighter.
C. Because the whole family is full of energy at spring time.
D. Because the snow is melting and the ground is thawing.

听力原文：M: Have you finished reading the book you bought last month？
W: Oh, I didn't read straight through the way you read a novel. I just covered a few chapters which interested me most.
How did the woman read the book？