单选题
People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the
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and have made up their minds to
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the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest against heavy trucks which run
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through the narrow High Street. "They not only make it
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to sleep at night, but they are
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damage to our houses and shops of historical
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," said John Norris, one of the protesters.
"
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we must have these noisy trucks on the roads," said Jean Lacey, a biology student, "why don"t they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isn"t much more than a
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village. Its streets were never
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for heavy traffic."
Harry Fields also studying
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said they wanted to make as much
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possible to force the government officials to realize what everybody was shavings to
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. "Most of them don"t
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here anyway, "he said, "they come in for meetings and that, and the Town Hall is soundproof, so they probably don"t
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. It"s high time they realized the problem." The fourth student, Liza Vemum, said she thought the public were
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on their side, and even if they weren"t, they soon would be.
I asked if they were
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that the police might come to
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them.
"Not really," she said, "actually we are
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bell ringers. I mean we are assistant bell ringers for the church. There is no
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against practicing. "
I
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the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.
【答案解析】[解析] mostly(adv.)意为“大多数”=most of the public were on their side。其他各项分别意为“几乎没有”；“不情愿地”；“通常”。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] be afraid that=fear that，此处意为“害不害怕警察来……”。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] come to stop them (from doing that)“来阻止他们(这样做)”。参考对比：come to arrest/catch them, seize=to take hold of quickly, eagerly, or strongly。选段中他们的行为还没到警察要seize他们的程度。