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The Old Gate【古老之门】 In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive__ __but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious ___ __. The Old City of London gates were all ___ __by the end of the 18th century. The last of Londons gates was removed a century ago, but by a ___ __ of luck, it was never destroyed. This gate is, in ___ __fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the ___ __between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in ___ __ because its design was ___ __ it was expensive to___ __ from www.wangxiao.cn and it was blocking the traffic. The Temple Bar Trust was ___ __ in the 1970s with the intention of returning the gate home. The aim of the trust is the ___ __ of the nations architectural heritage. Transporting the gate will mean physically pulling it___ __, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St Pauls Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be____ __, though there is a good ___ __ that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest ___ __ of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate. 词汇： contagious adj. 传染性的，会蔓延的 demolish vt.拆除，破坏 | 
