2018年中央民族大学考博英语真题

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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 26 with detailed information and step-by-step instructions for performing the function, that you’d think this was a new sort of 27 which all of us are now required to learn. The strongest impression the casual reader gets is that proper dying has become an extraordinary, 28 an exotic experience, something only the specially trained can do.

29 , you could be led to believe that we are the only 30 capable of being aware of death, and that when the rest of nature is experiencing the life cycle and dying, one generation after 31 , it is a different kind of process, done automatically and trivially, or more “natural”，as we say.

An elm in our backyard 32 the blight （枯萎病）this summer and dropped stone dead, leafless, almost overnight. One weekend 33 was a normal-looking elm, maybe a little bare in spots but 34 alarming, and the next weekend it was gone, passed over, departed, taken. Taken is right, for the tree surgeon came by yesterday with his 35 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 36 . The dying 37 a field mouse, at the jaws of an amiable household cat, is a spectacle I have beheld many times. It 38 to make me wince. However, early in life I gave up throwing sticks 39 the cat to make him drop the mouse， 40 the dropped mouse regularly went ahead and died anyway.

26. A. contained B. embraced C. packed D. littered

27. A. ability B. skill C. quality D. technology

28. A. and B. even C. yet D. but

29. A. Furthermore B. However C. Even so D. Since then

30. A. races B. creatures C. people D. human

31. A. the other B. another C. the next D. the following

32. A. caught B. held C. took D. picked

33. A. that B. which C. it D. this

34. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything

35. A. crew B. members C. corps D. fellows

36. A. sings B. sang C. sung D. singing

37. A. to B. in C. for D. of

38. A. was B. was used C. used D. was about

39. A. into B. on C. at D. off

40. A. but B. because C. while D. in order that

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