For over 900 years, the Tower of London has served as a loyal__1__ palace and fortress. Today, it's famous for its bloodyhistory and for being the place where the Crown Jewels arekept.But it has served for other purposes, too. It has been theroyal arsenal, royal mint, __2__ royal observatory or even theroyal zoo. The site of the Tower was __3__ originally part of theRoman city of Londinium.
But, in 1066, a foreigner from north west France became King William __4__ of Britain, he orderedthat a wooden castle built on the banks of __5__ the river Thames. The purpose of this fortresswas to help secure London, the most important city in his view realm. Ten years later,William hadthe fortress rebuild in stone, and created a great __6__ fortified palace with walls three metre thick.Today, this building __7__ is known as the White Tower, and it stands in the centre of a muchlarger stone fortress, which was built during later centuries. The Tower now covers the area ofseven hectares, and it stands near the __8__ busy financial district of the capital. But, once insidethe high stone walls, it's easy to forget the modern world outside and to take a trip back throughhistory. To help visitors explore, there are special ceremonial guards, called Yeoman Warders. Theyare also known as Beefeaters, and they are the best resource of information about the __9__Tower's history. Nearly 40 Yeoman live and work in the Tower.They are former soldiers whoearned the privilege of serving as __10__ Yeoman after long service.
參考答案及解析:
1.loyal--royal. loyal和royal兩個詞形似容易混淆，前者是“忠實的”，后者是“皇家的，王室的”。
2.for--/.serve the purpose 的意思是“適用，有……的用途”，不需要介詞for。如：I don't really think that this piece of furnitureserves any useful purpose.
3.or--and.the royal zoo 和前面的the royal arsenal, royal mint, royal observatory都是并列項，所以在最后一項之前應(yīng)該用and。
4.But^--when;^a--when.原句其實有兩個分句， a foreigner from north west France became KingWilliam of Britain 和 he ordered that a wooden castle built on the banks of the river Thames,兩個分句之間缺少了連詞連接。根據(jù)邏輯關(guān)系，這里應(yīng)該用表示時間的連接詞 when。
5.^built--be.動詞order后面的that從句可以是be型虛擬語氣，也可以是情態(tài)助動詞should。所以可以說order that a castle should be built或者order that a castle be bulit。在后一種表達(dá)中，表被動的助動詞be不能省略。
6.rebuild--rebuilt.這里出現(xiàn)的詞組應(yīng)該是have something done，意思是要求別人做某事。
7.metre--metres.當(dāng)數(shù)詞和度量名詞之間沒有連詞符時，名詞應(yīng)該用復(fù)數(shù)形式。
8.the(area)--an.an area of seven hectares這是一個同位語詞組，area前應(yīng)該用不定冠詞。
9.resource--source.resource是“資源”，source是“來源”，所以應(yīng)該說 a source of information, asource of illness, a source of knowledge等。
10.who^--have.顯然earned the privilege of serving as Yeoman這個動作的結(jié)果是延續(xù)到現(xiàn)在的，應(yīng)該用現(xiàn)在完成體。