Question

________ cleaning the yard and making up the beds for the old, we also read newspapers for them and had chats with them．

1. A.
   Except for
2. B.
   Rather than
3. C.
   Apart from
4. D.
   Instead of

Answer 1

C
解析：
考查短语辨析。apart from具有两种不同的含义：一是表排除或例外，二是表包括。根据also可知，我们所做的包括cleaning the yard和making up the beds这两件事，故用apart from，在此表包括。except for除……之外(表排除)；
rather than而不是；
instead of代替。