from wrong and how to show love and care for others, even for their parents.

36. "Dropouts" are those who ____________.

A. make troubles in and out of schools.

B. go about or stay home instead of being at school

C. try hard but always fail in the exams

D. lose hope and give up some of their subjects. 　　

37. According to the passage, it's necessary to teach students ____________.

A. how to study well

B. how to get on with others

C. to show love and care for others.

D. All above. 　　

38. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. The Trouble in Japanese School

B. The Problems of Japanese Students

C. Education in Japan

D. The Pressures on the Students in Japan

　"Brazil has become one of the developing world's great successes at reducing population growth but more by accident than design.While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce the birth rate，Brazil has had better result without really trying，"says George Martine at Harvard.

　　Brazil's population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990，and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average.Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990，an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.

Martine puts it down to，among other things，soap operas and installment (分期付款) plans introduced in the 1970s.Both played an important，although indirect，role in lowering the birth rate.Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas.Colobo，Brazil's most popular television network，shows three hours of