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Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questionsare based on the following passage.
On the night of September 2, 1666, a fire broke out in a baker's shop near Fish Street Hill in London. Before the flames were finally put out, 1 the entire city had been reduced to ashes.
The great fire was not seen as a total tragedy, however. The terrible conditions of the city had been attacked for years before the fire. Thus, with the 2 to create a shining new city, many people hurried to submit their designs of the rebuilding of London But the task of 3 the city was given to Sir Christopher Wren. Wren realized that the Great Fire would not have been so 4 if the city had been better laid out. Broader streets were needed to replace the crooked, narrow alleys overhung with poor wooden houses and shops. He also felt that 5 the main thorough fares of London would result in increased and more 6 transportation within city When the plans were unveiled to the citizens of London, however, they were overwhelmingly rejected. Many people feared that such widening of the streets would 7 the amount of land available for development.
Winter was approaching; consequently, it was necessary for the rebuilding to 8 at once Permission was, therefore, granted for the town's people to begin reconstruction of their houses and shops at the sites where they had been before the fire. Had the need for immediate action not been so pressing, some kind of 9 could likely have been reached. This was not to be, however, and the idea that could have made London one of the world's most beautiful cities never came 10 .
A possibility F.redesigning K.damaging
B.compromise G.prompting L.opportunity
C.preferable H reduce M.real
D.actually I.proceed N.rebuilding
E.true
Before the flames were finally put out, 1 the entire city had been reduced to ashes.
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