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Ninety years ago on a sunny morning in Northern France, something happened that changedBritain andEurope for ever.At half past seven on the morning of July 1,1916, whistles (哨子) blew and thousands ofBritish soldiers left their positions to attack their German enemies.By the end of the day, 20,000 of them were dead, and another 30,000 wounded or missing. TheBattle of the Somme, {{U}} (51) {{/U}} it is called, lasted for six months. When it ended, 125,000British soldiers were deaD、They had gained five kilometers of grounD、
This was one of a series of great battles during WWI. The attack on the Somme was staged to relieve {{U}} (52) {{/U}} on the French, who were engaged in a great battle of their own at a place called Verdun.By the time the battle ended, over a million French and German troops had been killeD、
About 17 million people were killed in WWI. There have been wars with greater numbers of deaD、But there has never been one in {{U}} (53) {{/U}} most of the dead were concentrated in such a small areA、On the Somme battlefield, two men died for every meter of space.
Local farmers working in the land still {{U}} (54) {{/U}} the bodies of those who died in that battle. The dead of all nations were buried in a series of giant graveyards along the line of the border {{U}} (55) {{/U}} France andBelgium. Relatives and descendants (子孙) of those who died still visit these graveyards today. What the French call the "tourism of death" {{U}} (56) {{/U}} an important contribution to the local economy.
It took a second great conflict beforeEurope was to turn {{U}} (57) {{/U}} war itself. Twenty-eight years after the Somme battle, a liberating army ofBritish,American andCanadian troops took back {{U}} (58) {{/U}} from another German invasion. More than 500,000 people were killeD、New {{U}} (59) {{/U}} were built.
Two great conflicts across two generations helped to change theEuropean mind about war. Germany, once the most warlike country inEurope, is now probably more in {{U}} (60) {{/U}} of peace than any other. One major cause of war inEurope was rivalry (竞争) between France and Germany. TheEuropean Union was specifically formed to end that {{U}} (61) {{/U}}.
According to US commentator William Pfaff, "Europeans are interested in a slow development of civilized and tolerant international relations, {{U}} (62) {{/U}} on problems while avoiding catastrophes (灾难) along the way. They have themselves only recently {{U}} (63) {{/U}} from the catastrophes of WWI and WWII, when tens of millions of people were destroyeD、They don’t want {{U}} (64) {{/U}}."
The lastBritish veteran of the Somme battle died in 2005, aged 108.And WWI is passing out of memory and into history.But for anyone who wants to understand howEuropeans {{U}} (65) {{/U}}, it is still important to know a little about the terrible events of July 1, 1916.
B．many
C．more
D．less
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
这是句省略句，在more后面略去了一些词。但从上面—…句话可以推断出这句完整的话是：They don’t want more people to be destroyed。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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