基本信息
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的a、b、c和d项中．选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 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___1___and have made up their minds to___2___the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest (抗议) against heavy trucks which run___3___through the narrow high street. "they not only make it___4___to sleep at night, but they are doing damage to our houses and shops of historical___5___," said john norris, one of the protesters. "if 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___6___village. its streets were never___7___for heavy traffic." harry fields also studying___8____said they wanted to make as much___9 ___as possible to force the government to realise what everybody was having to___10 ___. "most of them don't___11___here anyway," he said, "they come in for meetings and that, and the town hall is soundproof(隔音), so they probably don't___12___ the noise all that much. it's high time they realised the problem." the fourth student, liza vernum, said she thought the public were mostly on
