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The 0ld Gate In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had wa...

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问题 The 0ld Gate
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for_____________ (51) reasons but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, I like people with contagious (传染性的)________(52). The
Old City of London gates were all______________(53) by the end of the 18th century. The last of London’s gates was removed a century ago,_____________ (54) by a stroke of luck, it was never destroyed.
This gate is, in_____________ (55) fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar ,and it marked the _____________ (56) between the Old City of London and Westminster In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar_____________ (57), numbered the stones and put the gate in store__________(58) its design was unfashionable, it was expensive to_____________ (59) and it was blocking the traffic.
The Temple Bar Trust was set up in the 1970s with the _____________ (60) of returning the gate home. The aim of the Trust is the _____________ (61) of the nation’s architectural heritage. Transporting the gate will_____________ (62 ) physically pulling it down, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Paul’s Cathedral. Most of the facade (外表)of the gate will probably be ____________ (63), though there is a good _____________ (64) that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest ______(65) of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.
(51)
选项 A. sensitive
B. defensive
C.offensive
D. primitive
答案B
解析4个选项的词形有点相似，但词义大相径庭，筑城墙最基本的目的就是为了防御外敌 侵入，所以选defensive。offensive 为“攻击的，冒犯的”，是它的反义词；sensitive 为“敏感的”；primitive为“原始的”。
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