学位英语

The Old 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) ______by 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 Westminster1.In 1878 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 traffic.

The Temple Bar Trust was (10) ______in the 1970's with the intention of returning the gatehome. The aim of the Trust is the (11) ______of the nation's architectural heritage.

Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it (12) ______, stone by stone, removing andrebuilding it near St Paul's Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be (13) ______, though there is a good (14) ______that2 the basic structure will be sound. The hardest (15) ______of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that oncestood on top of the gate.

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 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　unbearable

9.A　maintain B　afford C　repair D　fix

10.A　set out B　setup 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

15.A　requirement B　job C　necessity D　obligation

答案与题解：

1.B A选项grounds意为“理由，基础”;C选项causes意为“原因”;D选项purposes意为“目的;意志”。根据句意“城墙一方面是为了防御外敌……”for为介词，表目的。for defensive reasons，为了防御的原因。故选B。

2.D　考查固定搭配。A选项injuries意为“伤害，受伤”;B选项symptoms意为“症状”;C选项colds意为“感冒”;D选项contagious diseases意为“传染病”。根据句意应选D。

3.B　此句句意为“伦敦古城的城门，均在18世纪末被拆毁。”A选项devoted意为“献身子……”;B选项demolished意为“拆毁，破坏”，与句意相符;C选项declared意为“公然的，公开宣布的”;D选项decreased意为“减少”。故选B。

4.A　考查固定搭配。a stroke of luck。

5.C　考查固定搭配in actual fact，为固定搭配，意思是“事实上”。等于actually或as a matter of fact。

6.C　此句句意为“它的名字叫圣殿酒吧区，是伦敦古城与威斯敏斯特的分界线。"A选项borders意为“边界，边缘地区”;B选项part意为“部分";D选项line意为“路线，排”;而C选项boundary意为“两地的分界线”，与句意相符。故选C。

7.A　此句句意为“1878年，伦敦议会将其推倒，给石头编了号，并将它们储藏。”A选项storage意为“存储，仓库”，符合句意;B选项store意为“商店，储备”;C选项storing意为“储存，保管”;D选项stock意为“股份，股票”。in storage为固定搭配。故选A。

8.B　此句句意为“城门的设计老套，维修费用昂贵，而且堵塞交通。"A选项unrealistic意为“不切实际的”;C选项unavailable意为“难以获得的”;D选项unbearable意为“难以忍受的”，均与句意不符;B选项unfashionable意为“不时髦的，老套的”。故选B。

9.A　此句意为“……维修费用昂贵，并且堵塞交通。”afford意为“支付得起”;repair意为“修”;fix意为“修理，安装”。(对建筑物的)维修保持意为maintain。故选A。

10.B　此句句意为“在20世纪70年代，最初为了恢复城门，建立了圣殿酒吧区信托基金，目的是保存国家的建筑遗产。”set up意为“建立，开业”;set out意为“动身，陈列”;set off意为“启程，使爆炸”;set back意为“推迟，使受挫”。故选B。

11.A　此句句意为“目的是保存国家的建筑遗产。"A选项preservation意为“(古物，建筑)的保存”，与句意相符;B选项reservation意为“预约，保留”;C选项conservation，多用于“(环境的)保存，保护”;D选项recreation意为“娱乐，消遣”。故选A。

12.D　考查介词搭配。pull up意为“拔起，阻止”;pull over意为“靠岸，开到路边”;pull on意为“穿，继续拉”，只有D选项pull down意思是“摧毁，推倒”，与句意相符。

13.A　根据上下文，可以排除C与D0A与B均有替代的意思，通常，replace ... with…，“替换，更换(以旧更新)"，substitute ... for…，“替代”之意，不与原物进行比较。

14.D　there is a good chance that意思是“很有可能发生某事，有……的机会”。

15.B　此句句意为“最艰难的工作”the hardest job of all为常用说法。A选项requirement意为“要求，必要条件”;C选项necessity意为“需要，必需品”;D选项obligation意为“义务”。故选B。

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