单选题 From the first paragraph we can see that ______.

A、 Big Ben was made in 1956
B、 Big Ben had been silent many times
C、 the bells stopped ringing for two days
D、 Big Ben had been working well since 1956

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[分析] 推理题。从文中可知1976年大本钟出现了问题，根据“…It was the first time for 20 years that Big Ben had been silent for so many hours…”可推断出从1956年以来兰直表珊艮好。所以D正确。