請依下文回答第 21 題至第 25 題：
         The most common question that curator Edward Bleiberg fields from visitors is a straightforward but salient one：Why are the statues’ noses broken？Bleiberg, who __21__ the Brooklyn museum's extensive holdings of Egyptian, Classical and ancient Near Eastern art, was surprised the first few times he heard this question. He had taken for __22__ that the sculptures were damaged; his training in Egyptology encouraged visualizing how a statue would look if it were still __23__ . It might seem inevitable that after thousands of years, an ancient artifact would show wear and __24__ . But this simple observation led Bleiberg to uncover a widespread pattern of deliberate destruction, which pointed to a complex set of reasons why most works of Egyptian art came to be __25__ in the first place.
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(A) oversees
(B) alienates
(C) devastates
(D) fortells