1 . The researcher puts these impolite behaviors under a microscope in an attempt to explain why we seem________ so much ruder these years.

A．to be becoming

B．becoming

C．to becoming

D．that we become

2 . In the past, travellers from Europe to Indonesia ________ months at sea, but now we just have to sit on a plane for a few hours, so in some ways the planet seems to ________.

A．have spent, get smaller	B．spent, be getting smaller
C．had spent, get smaller	D．would spent, be getting small