题目内容：

从下面方框中选出与下列各句中画线部分意思相同或相近，并能替换画线部分的选项。

1.It is usually warm in March in my hometown， but it can be rather cold at times .

2.He doesn’t have much spare time to go shopping.

3.To start with ， we must be ready for our experiment.

4.They decided to set up a new school in the village.