There are so many new books about dying that there are now special shelves s

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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【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. [br] 【C7】

选项 A、caught
B、held
C、took
D、picked

答案 A

解析各项的意思是：catch发觉，感染(疾病)；hold拿着，保存，支持；take拿，拿走，取，抓；pick摘，掘，凿，挑选。空格处的意思是：我家后院的榆树今年夏天染了枯萎病。

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