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  3. 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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问题     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【C1】______with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function, that you’d think this was a new sort of skill which all of us are now required to learn.The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary,【C2】______an exotic experience, something only the specially trained can do.
    Furthermore, you could be led to believe that we are the only【C3】______capable of being aware of death,and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying,one generation after【C4】______,it is a different kind of process,done automatically and trivially,or more "natural",as we say.
    An elm in our backyard【C5】______the blight (枯萎病) this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight.One weekend it was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but【C6】______alarming, and the next weekend it was gone, passed over, departed, taken.Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his crew 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【C7】______.
    The dying【C8】______a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle I have beheld many times.It【C9】______to make me wince.However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks at the cat to make him drop the mouse,【C10】______the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.
【C5】
选项 A、caught
B、held
C、took
D、picked
答案A
解析 句意为“我家后院的榆树今年夏天染上了枯萎病”，catch作及物动词，有“染上疾病”的意思。B项意为“持有，抓住”，C项意为“(疾病)突然侵袭”，用在疾病的后面，如the blight took our elm。D项意为“采集，挑选”。故选A。
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