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14年职称英语考试综合类B级完型填空练习题 下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。 How Two Great Conflicts Helped to Change Europe Ninety years ago on a sunny morning in Northern France，something happened that changed B.retain and Europe for even At half past seven on the morning of July 1,1916，whistlesblew and thousands of British soldiers left their positions to attack their German enemies.By the end of the day,20，000 of them were dead，and another 30，000 wounded or missing.The Battle of the Somme，_________it is called，lasted for six months.When, it ended，125，000 British soldiers were dead. They had gained five kilometers of ground. This was one of a series of great battles during WWI.The attack on the Somme was staged to relieve_________on the French，who were engaged in a great battle of their own at a place called Verdun.By the time the battle ended，over a million French and German troops had been killed. About 1 7 million people were killed in WWI.There have been wars with greater numbers of dead.But there has never been one in________most of the dead were concentrated in such a small area.on the Somme battlefield，two men died for every meter of space. Local farmers working in the land sit________the bodies of those who died in that battle.The dead of all nations were buried in a series of giant graveyards along the line of the border________France and Belgium.Relatives and descendants of those who died still visit these graveyards today.What the French call the tourism of death________an important contribution to the Iowa economy. | 
