单元综合检测(三)
Ⅰ.语言知识及应用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
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。
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 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 officials to realize 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，so they probably don’t __12__.It is high time that they realized the problem.”The fourth student，Liza Vernum，said she thought the public were mostly on their side，and even if they weren’t accustomed, they soon would be.
I asked if they were __13__that the police might come to stop them.
“Not really，” she said, “actually we are __14__ bell ringers.I mean we are assistant bell ringers for the church.There is no law against practising.”
I __15__ the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.
1．A.college B．village
