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There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops, along with the healt
There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops, along with the healt
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2013-01-29
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There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves set aside for them in bookshops, along with the health-diet and home repair paperbacks. Some of them are so 【1】with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function, that you’d think this was a new sort of【2】which all of us are now required to learn. The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary,【3】an exotic experience, something only the specially trained can do.
【4】, you could be led to believe that we are the only【5】capable of being aware of death, and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying, one generation after【6】, it is a different kind of process, done automatically and trivially, or more "natural", as we say.
An elm in our backyard【7】the blight (枯萎病) this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight. One weekend【8】was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but【9】alarming, and the next weekend it wTas gone, passed over, departed, taken. Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his【10】of young helpers and their cherry picker, and took it down branch by branch and carted it off in the back of a red truck, everyone【11】
The dying【12】a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle 1 have beheld many times. It【13】to make me wince. However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks【14】the cat to make him drop the mouse,【15】the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.
选项
A、races
B、creatures
C、people
D、human
答案
B
解析
从本句“书中内容会让你觉得我们是唯一有死亡意识的……”和下句中“自然界中的其他生命(除我们以外的)一代又一代经历着生命的周期和死亡”,可以推测出空格处所指的是生物,而不是种族、人们、人类,故选B。
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