Question

Yesterday I read books in the library ____ playing computer games.

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A．take place	B．take the place of
C．instead of	D．instead

Answer 1

答案：C
解析：

take place意为“发生”；take the place of和instead of都表示“取代，代替”，但前者是动词短语，后者是介词短语；instead是副词，通常用于句尾。