The Old Gate

共享题干题【2012年真题】（一） The Old Gate
   In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly or __________ (51) reasons hut 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 stoke 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, and 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 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.