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.
(54)

选项 A. for
B.or
C. but
D.nor

答案C

解析这个空格前后各有一个句子,所以这里需要填入的是一个连接词。首先可以排除nor,因为前面没有出现过否定意义。在另外三个连接词中做选择,句中前后两个动词removed和never destroyed提供了线索,它们之间的关系不会是因果(for),也不会是选择(or),只有用but表示转折才是最合理的。
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