問題詳情
Cloze : Choose the best answer to fill in each blank and make the whole passage a coherent and logical piece.Masada, meaning fortress in Hebrew, is situated atop an isolated rock cliff at the western end ofthe Judean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. It is a place of gaunt and majestic beauty. On the east,the rock falls in a sheer drop of about 450 meters to the Dead Sea; and in the west, it stands about100 meters above the surrounding terrain. The natural approaches __6__ the cliff top are very difficult.The only written source about Masada is Josephus Flavius’ The Jewish War. Accordingto Josephus Flavius, Herod the Great built the fortress of Masada between 37 and 31 BC. Herod hadbeen made King of Judea by his Roman overlords and was hated by his Jewish subjects. Herod, themaster builder, “furnished this fortress as a refuge for himself.” It included a casemate wall aroundthe plateau, storehouses, large cisterns ingeniously __7__ rainwater, barracks, palaces and an armory.Some 75 years after Herod’s death, at the beginning of the Revolt of the Jews against theRomans in 66 AD, a group of Jewish rebels overcame the Roman garrison of Masada. After the fallof Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, they were joined by zealots and theirfamilies who had fled from Jerusalem. __8__ Masada as their base, they raided and harassed theRomans for two years. Then, in 73 AD, the Roman governor Flavius Silva marched against Masadawith the Tenth Legion, auxiliary units and thousands of Jewish prisoners-of-war. The Romansestablished camps at the base of Masada, laid siege to __9__ and built a circumvallation wall. Theythen constructed a rampart of thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth against the westernapproaches of the fortress and, in the spring of the year 74 AD, moved a battering ram up the rampand __10__ the wall of the fortress.
【題組】6.
(A) from
(B) in
(C) of
(D) to
參考答案
答案：D
難度：簡單0.857143
統計：A(2),B(1),C(2),D(30),E(0)