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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.

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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.

Does it matter whether we sense our place in nature so long as we have cities and technology? Yes, for many reasons, not the least of which is that virtually all scientists were fascinated with nature as children and retained that curiosity throughout their lives.How to understand the underlined phrase?

A. the least important reason
B. the most important reason
C. one of the most important reasons
D. one of the least important reasons

We remain every bit as dependent upon nature today — we need plants to fix photons of energy into sugar molecules and to cleanse the air and replenish the oxygen.How to understand the underlined sentence?

A. Today, we are dependent on nature.
B. Nowadays, we totally depend on nature as we did before.
C. We were dependent on nature before.
D. Nowadays, we don't rely on nature.

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