PART II CLOZE
　　Decide which of the choices given below would correctly complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.    Select the correct choice for each blank.
　　Today, the Tower of London is one of the most popular tourist (26)_____ and attracts over three million visitors a year. It was occasionally used as a Royal Palace for the Kings and Queens of England (27)_____ the time of James I who (28)_____ from 1603 to 1625, but is best known as a prison and execution place. Within the walls of the Tower, princes have been murdered, traitors (29)_____, spies shot, and Queens of England beheaded. One of the most famous executions was that of Anne Boleyn in 1526. She was the second wife of Henry VIII. He wanted to (30)_____ her because she could not give him a son, so he accused her of adultery. She was tried and found guilty. She asked to be beheaded with a sword,
(31)_____ the usual axe, which can still be seen in the Tower. The Tower was also the (32)_____ of one of Londons most famous mysteries. King Edward IV died in 1483. His elder son, Edward, became king (33)_____ his fathers death. Young Edward lived in the Tower, and the Duke of Gloucester, his protector, persuaded Edwards brother, Richard, to come and live there so that they could play together. But then the Duke (34)_____ that he was the new king, and he was crowned instead of the twelve-year-old Edward, (35)_____ himself Richard III. After that, the boys were seen less and less and (36)_____ disappeared. It is said that they were suffocated in bed by pillows being (37)_____ their mouths. It is believed that Richard III ordered their deaths, although it has never been (38)_____. In 1674, workmen at the Tower discovered two skeletons which were taken away and buried in Westminster Abbey in 1678. The (39)_____ were examined in 1933 and were declared to be those of two children, (40)_____ the age of the Princes.
　　26.   A) seats   B) scenes   C) grounds   D) sights
　　27.   A) until   B) by   C) to   D) at
　　28.   A) reined   B) reigned   C) powered   D) controlled
　　29.   A) ruined   B) destroyed   C) tortured   D) wounded
　　30.   A) get away with   B) get rid of   C) get done with   D) get down on
　　31.   A) apart from   B) besides   C) together   D) rather than
　　32.   A) region   B) scene   C) place   D) area
　　33.   A) on   B) at   C) with   D) by
　　34.   A) revealed   B) announced   C) pronounced   D) advertised
　　35.   A) naming   B) declaring   C) calling   D) giving
　　36.   A) eventually   B) later   C) lastly   D) completely
　　37.   A) forced into   B) squeezed forth   C) pressed over   D) put on
　　38.   A) approved   B) proved   C) reproved   D) disproved
　　39.   A) remains   B) corpses   C) bones   D) bodies
　　40.   A) definitely   B) roughly   C) possibly   D) certainly