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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 __ 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 / k nteid s / adj. 传染性的，会蔓延的 demolish / dim li / vt.拆除，破坏 stroke / str uk / n. 打击 preservation / ,prez vei n / n. 保存，保留 | 
