In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive
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but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious
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. The Old City of London gates were all
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by the end of the 18th century. The last of London"s gates was removed a century ago, but by a
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of luck, it was never destroyed.
This gate is, in
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fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the
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between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in
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because its design was
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it was expensive to
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and it was blocking the traffic.
The Temple Bar Trust was
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in the 1970"s with the intention of returning the gate home. The aim of the trust is the
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of the nation"s architectural heritage.
Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it
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, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Paul"s Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be
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, though there is a good
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that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest
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of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词辨析。根据第一段第二句“this is partly for defensive”这(城墙)一方面是为了抵御外敌……，for为介词，表目的。for…reason表示为了……的原因，所以B项reason(原因)为正确选项。A项ground理由，基础；C项cause起因；D项purpose目的，均不合适。故本题选择B项。
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配。a stroke of luck意为：意外的好运，三生有幸。故本题选择A项。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配。in actual fact意为：事实上；等于actually。故本题选择C项。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词辨析。由空所在的句子可推测出在“the Old city of London”和“Westminster”两个城市之间的应该是分界线。所以C项boundary(分界线)为正确答案。A项border边界，边缘地区，B项part部分，D项line线，路线，均不符合题意。故本题选择C项。