第十三篇The 0ld Gate
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them．This waspartly for defensive(1)but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded asundesirable，like people with contagious(2)The Old City of London gates were all(3)bv the end of the 18th century．The last of London’S gates was removed a centuryago，but by a(4)of luck，it was never destroyed．This gate is，in(5)fact，not called a gate at all；its name is Temple Bar，and itmarked the(6)between the Old City of London and Westminster．In 1 878 the Councilof London took the Bar down，numbered the stones and put the gate in(7)because itsdesign was(8)it was expensive to(9)and it was blocking the traftic．The Temple Bar TmSt was(10)in the 1970’S witll the intention of returning the gatehome．The aim of the Tmst iS the(1 1)of the nation’S architectural heritage．Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it(12)，stone by stone，removing and rebuilding it near St Paul’S Cathedral．Most of the facade of the gate will probably be(13)though there iS a good(14)that the basic structure will be sound．The hardest(15)of a11．however，will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood ontop of the gate．
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)teal B)contemporary C)actual D)current
6．A)borders B)part C)boundary D)line
7．A)storage B)store C)storing D)stock
8．A)unrealistic B)unfashionable C)unavailable D)anbearable
9．A)maintain B)afford C)repair D)fix
10．A)set out B)set up C)set Off D)set back
11．A)preservation B)reservation C)conservation D)recreation
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
l5.A)requirement B)job C)necessity D)obligation
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them．This waspartly for defensive(1)but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded asundesirable，like people with contagious(2)The Old City of London gates were all(3)bv the end of the 18th century．The last of London’S gates was removed a centuryago，but by a(4)of luck，it was never destroyed．This gate is，in(5)fact，not called a gate at all；its name is Temple Bar，and itmarked the(6)between the Old City of London and Westminster．In 1 878 the Councilof London took the Bar down，numbered the stones and put the gate in(7)because itsdesign was(8)it was expensive to(9)and it was blocking the traftic．The Temple Bar TmSt was(10)in the 1970’S witll the intention of returning the gatehome．The aim of the Tmst iS the(1 1)of the nation’S architectural heritage．Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it(12)，stone by stone，removing and rebuilding it near St Paul’S Cathedral．Most of the facade of the gate will probably be(13)though there iS a good(14)that the basic structure will be sound．The hardest(15)of a11．however，will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood ontop of the gate．
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)teal B)contemporary C)actual D)current
6．A)borders B)part C)boundary D)line
7．A)storage B)store C)storing D)stock
8．A)unrealistic B)unfashionable C)unavailable D)anbearable
9．A)maintain B)afford C)repair D)fix
10．A)set out B)set up C)set Off D)set back
11．A)preservation B)reservation C)conservation D)recreation
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
l5.A)requirement B)job C)necessity D)obligation
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