单选题From fetus to adult，the Second Growth Spurt appears in（）。A prenatal periodB infant and toddle periodC childhoodD puberty

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Adult Education

1 Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education.Such
education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults.Adults may want
to study something which they missed in earlier schooling,get new skills or job training,find out new tech-
nological developments,seek better self-understanding,or develop new talents and skills.
2 This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of li-
braries,correspondence courses,or broadcasting.It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colle-
ges,study groups,workshops,clubs,and professional associations.
3 Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the
rise of the Industrial Revolution.Great economic and social changes were taking place:people were moving
from rural areas to cities;new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system.These and
other factors produced a need for further education and reeducation of adults.
4 The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s,with the
founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics institute in Glasgow.The earliest adult education
institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.
5 People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today.For
example,parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs
at work or even to learn completely new jobs.Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet
these and other needs.

Paragraph 2_________
A:Necessity for Developing Adult Education
B:Early Days of Adult Education
C:Ways of Receiving Adult Education
D:Growth of Adult Education
E:Institutions of Adult Education
F: Definition of Adult Education

Passage 1
Earlier this year, when America first sneezed, the European Central Bank （along with most private-sector economists） argued that the euro area was insulated from America's slowdown and had little to worry about. This seems to have wrong. In Germany there are fears about recession as business investment and retail sales tumble. Recent figures confirmed that Germany’s GDP stagnated in the second quarter. Italy's GDP fell in the second quarter, and although growth has held up better in France and Spain, the growth in the euro area as a whole was close to zero in the quarter. Nobody is forecasting an actual recession in the euro area this year, but it is no longer expected to provide an engine for world growth.
As for Japan, it is probably already in recession. Japan's GDP grew slightly in the first quarter. Persistent deflation continues to be a severe problem. A revised measure of Japan’s consumer-price index, to be published soon, is likely to show that deflation is worse than had been thought.

what were Germany and Italy's GDP in the second quarter?

A. stagnated
B. fell
C. suffered
D. halted and decreased