It's fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the US(A.) A month ago, while on summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito (蚊子) bites. Right before 36 Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma 37 me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the 38 like me. She said, "There's an old saying—the 39 you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter your blood 40 to the mosquitoes. " Not 41 it, I replied, "Grandmaaaa, that's just an old wives' tale!" 【題組】41.
(A) expecting
(B) understanding
(C) recognizing
(D) believing