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配合題： Walls and wall building have played a very important role in Chinese culture. ___16 ___ From theNeolithic period – when ramparts of pounded earth were used – to the Communist Revolution, wallswere an essential part of any village. Not only towns and villages, the houses and the temples withinthem were somehow walled, and the houses also had no windows overlooking the street, thus givingthe feeling of wandering around a huge maze. The name for “city” in Chinese (ch’eng) means wall,and over these walled cities, villages, houses and temples presides the god of walls and mounts,whose duties were, and still are, to protect and be responsible for the welfare of the inhabitants.___17_ _ However, it is indeed a common mistake to perceive the Great Wall as a singlearchitectural structure, and it would also be erroneous to assume that it was built during a singledynasty. For the building of the wall spanned the various dynasties, and each of these dynastiessomehow contributed to the refurbishing and the construction of a wall, whose foundations had beenlaid many centuries ago. ___18_ __ Especially three of these states, the Ch’in, the Chao and theYen, corresponding respectively to the modern provinces of Shensi, Shanzi and Hopei, over andabove building walls that surrounded their kingdoms, also laid the foundations on which Ch’in ShihHuang Di would build his first continuous Great Wall. The role that the Great Wall played in thegrowth of Chinese economy was an important one. ___19____ The garrison troops were instructedto reclaim wasteland and to plant crops on it, roads and canals were built, to mention just a few of theworks carried out. ___20__ _ Builders, garrisons, artisans, farmers and peasants left behind a trail ofobjects, including inscribed tablets, household articles, and written work, which have becomeextremely valuable archaeological evidence to the study of defense institutions of the Great Wall andthe everyday life of these people who lived and died along the wall.  選項: 
(A) Thus a great and extremely laborious task such as constructing a wall, which was supposed torunthroughout the country, must not have seemed such an absurdity. 
(B) Throughout the centuries many settlements were established along the new border. 
(C) All these undertakings greatly helped to increase the country’s trade and cultural exchanges withmany remote areas and also with the southern, central and western parts of Asia – the formation ofthe Silk Route. 
(D) These people, from the dim mists of prehistory, have been wall-conscious. It was during thefourthand third century B.C. that each warring state started building walls to protect their kingdoms, bothagainst one another and against the northern nomads. 
(E) It was during the fourth and third century B.C. that each warring state started building walls toprotect their kingdoms, both against one another and against the northern nomads.
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參考答案

答案：D
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(2),C(0),D(0),E(1)

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