I have been keeping the portrait. I can see it every day,（）as it always reminds me of my childhood in Paris.

单项选择题The writer describes the special spider as“special”because（）

A. it walks on water
B. it has eight eyes
C. of its hairy appearance
D. of the way it produces its young

单项选择题The phrase“be alert to”in the third paragraph may best be replaced by“（）”.

A. look at
B. pay attention to
C. write down
D. learn by heart

单项选择题In the fourth paragraph, the word“them”refers to（）

A. the parts of words
B. prefixes
C. suffixes
D. roots

单项选择题The expression“wait on table”in the second paragraph means “（）”.

A. work in a furniture shop
B. keep accounts for a bar
C. wait to lay the table
D. serve customers in a restaurant

单项选择题Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage（）

A. A Respectable Self-made Family
B. American Attitude toward Manual Labor
C. Characteristics of American Culture
D. The Development of Manual Labor