共用题干The Old GateIn the Middle Ages the va

共用题干

The Old 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,like
people with contagious. _________(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 storage
___________（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 mean physically pulling it_________(62),stone by stone,removing and
rebuilding it near St Paul’s Cathedral.Most of the facade 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.

_________(53) A:devoted B:declared C:decreased D:demolished