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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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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【C2】______which all of us are now required to learn. The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary, 【C3】______an exotic experience, something only the specially trained can do.
【C4】______, you could be led to believe that we are the only【C5】______capable of being aware of death, and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying, one generation after【C6】______, it is a different kind of process, done automatically and trivially, or more "natural", as we say.
An elm in our backyard【C7】______the blight (枯萎病) this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight. One weekend【C8】______was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but【C9】______alarming, and the next weekend it was gone, passed over, departed, taken. Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his【C10】______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【C11】______.
The dying【C12】______a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle I have beheld many times. It【C13】______to make me wince. However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks【C14】______the cat to make him drop the mouse, 【C15】______the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.
【C6】
选项
A、the other
B、another
C、the next
D、the following
答案
B
解析
各项的意思是:the other是其中的“另一个”;another另外的,又一,不同的;the next下一次,其次;the following下列的,其次的。空格处的意思是: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。
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