The Old Gate【古老之门】
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive__ __but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious ___ __. The Old City of London gates were all ___ __by the end of the 18th century. The last of Londons gates was removed a century ago, but by a ___ __ of luck, it was never destroyed.
This gate is, in ___ __fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the ___ __between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in ___ __ because its design was ___ __ it was expensive to___ __ from www.wangxiao.cn and it was blocking the traffic.
The Temple Bar Trust was ___ __ in the 1970s with the intention of returning the gate home. The aim of the trust is the ___ __ of the nations architectural heritage.
Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it___ __, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Pauls Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be____ __, though there is a good ___ __ that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest ___ __ of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.
词汇:
contagious adj. 传染性的,会蔓延的 demolish vt.拆除,破坏
stroke n. 打击 preservation n. 保存,保留
boundary n. 范围,分界线 cathedral n. 保留,保存
注释:
1. mark the boundary between ... and... : 在和两者之间划定界限
2. there is a good chance that... : 很有可能发生某事,有的机会
练习:
1. A) grounds B) reasons C) causes D) purposes
2. A) injuries B) symptoms C) colds D) diseases
3. A) devoted B) demolished C) declared D) decreased
4. A) stroke B) wave C) hit D) blow
5. A) real B) contemporary C) actual
6. A) borders B) part C) boundary D) current
7. A) storage B) store C) storing D) line
8. A) unrealistic B) unfashionable C) unavailable D) stock
9. A) maintain B) afford C) repair D) unbearable
10. A) set out B} set up C) set off D) fix
11. A) preservation B) reservation C) conservation D) set back
12. A) up B) over C) on D) down
13. A) replaced B) substituted C) exchanged D) overtaken
14. A) capacity B) opportunity C) possibility D) chance
15 A) requirement B) job C) necessity D) obligation
参考答案:
1. A. defensive 2. D. diseases 3. A. demolished 4. A. but 5. C. actual 6. A. borders 7. A. down 8. because 9. B. maintain 10. D. intension 11. D. preservation 12. B. mean 13. replaced 14. B. chance 15. A. job
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