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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells．Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the 1 and have made up their minds to 2 the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest（抗议）against heavy trucks which run 3 through the narrow High Street．
“They not only make it 4 to sleep at night,but they are 5 damage to our houses and places of historical 6 ,”said John Norris,one of the protesters．
“ 7 we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,”said Jean Lacey,a biology student,“Why don't they build a new road that goes 8 the town?Burlington isn't much more than a 9 village．Its streets were never 10 ．for heavy traffic．”
Harry Fields also studying 11 said they wanted to make as much 12 as possible to force the 13 to realize what everybody was having to 14 ．“Most of them don't 15 here anyway,”he said,“they come in for meetings and that,and the Town Hall is soundproof（隔音）, 16 they probably don't 17 the noise all that much．It's high time they realised the 18 ．”
The fourth student,Liza Vernum,said she thought the public were 19 on their side,and even if they weren't they soon would be．
20 asked if they were 21 that the police might come to 22 them．
“Not really,”she said,“actually we are 23 bell-ringers．I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church．There is no 24 against practising．”
I 25 the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears．
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