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necessary task according to the passage? A. Going to work though it is raining heavily. B. Buying a birthday gift for your good friend. C. Having a yard sale to raise money for sick kids. D. Sending your son to a piano lesson on Sunday. A 由文章第二段第一句可直接得知, necessary tasks包括 making money, 與選項(xiàng) A下大雨也去上班賺錢相符。 【例題解析】 1. 認(rèn)真分析 題干和選項(xiàng)中的關(guān)鍵詞。 根據(jù)上下文的指代關(guān)系進(jìn)行猜測(cè)。 解題技巧: 典例:( 南通中考) C ... “ I said nothing to the old couple about it. But, through a grandchild, they found it out. Though they never said a word to me on the matter, they mourned the bird and buried(埋葬) it. I could never look them in the face afterwards. Oh, I had told them how sorry I was! ... ( ) 9. The underlined word“ mourned the bird” in Paragraph 10 means“ ”. A. were not willing to throw the bird away B. showed sadness for the loss of the bird C. punished me for the death of the bird D. took care of the bird’ s family members 由后文“ …and buried it 埋葬了它”可推斷他們很同情這只鳥(niǎo),在為鳥(niǎo)默哀,所以是對(duì)鳥(niǎo)的死亡表現(xiàn)出難過(guò),故選 B。 D 【 例 題 解析 】 B ... However, we often fet to fill the third bottle the happiness bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness bottle sometimes empty at the end of the day? Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies by, and before we know it, it is time for bed. We all have days like that. ... ( )6. What does the underlined word “it” mean in the third paragraph? A. We require enough time to fill the necessary tasks bottle. B. Necessary and voluntary tasks are less important. C. All the three bottles are filled to top at the end of the day. D. We need time to do something to make ourselves happy. D ... They first cut an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used a special way to take out the apple’ s cell and make it a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple, and watched it grow. “ You can implant these scaffolds into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive,” Pelling said during a Ted Talk speech. The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse and the mouse