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2005年秋季华中科技大学博士研究生英语入学考试试题 I. Cloze (0.5x20=10%) Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet. Today, the Tower of London is one of the most popular tourist (1) ___ and attracts over three million visitors a year. It was occasionally used as a Royal Palace for the Kings and Queens of England (2) ____ the time of James I who (3) ____ from 1603 to 1625, but is (4) ____ known as a prison and execution place. Within the walls of the Tower, princes have been murdered, traitors (5) ____, spies shot, and Queens of The Tower was also the (10) ____ of one of London’s most famous mysteries. King Edward IV died in 1843. His elder son, Edward, became king (11) ____ his father’s death. Young Edward lived in the Tower, and the Duke of Gloucester, (12) ____ protector, persuaded Edward’s brother, Richard, to come and live there so that they could play together. But then the Duke (13) ____ that he was the new king, and he was crowned instead of the twelve-year-old Edward, (14) ____ himself Richard III. After that, the boys were seen less and less and eventually disappeared. (15) ____ said that they were suffocated in bed by pillows being (16) ____ their mouths. It is believed that Richard ordered their deaths, (17) ____ it has never been proved. In 1674, workmen at the Tower discovered two (18) ____ which were taken away and buried in Westminster Abbey in 1678. The (19) ____ were examined in 1933 and were declared to be those of two children, (20) ____ the age of the Princes. 1. A. seats B. scenes C. grounds D. sights 2. B. until B. by C. to D. at 3. A. reined B. reigned C. powered D. controlled 4. A. hardly B. little C. best D. well 5. A. ruined B. destroyed C. tortured D. wounded 6. A. get the worst of B. get rid of C. get the best of D. get done with 7. A. apart from B. besides C. together with D. rather than 8. A. brought B. taken C. got D. won 9. A. knock B. hit