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The World’s Loneliest Phone Booth For almost 40 years, a lone phone booth stood in the Mojave Desert. about 75 miles southw
The World’s Loneliest Phone Booth For almost 40 years, a lone phone booth stood in the Mojave Desert. about 75 miles southw
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2022-05-11
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The World’s Loneliest Phone Booth
For almost 40 years, a lone phone booth stood in the Mojave Desert. about 75 miles southwest of Las Vegas. It was likely installed for local miners around 1960.The glass panels were long gone from the【C1】________by 1990, and the phonebook had been stolen. But a visitor to the booth in 1990 found that the telephone【C2】________worke. For the next 10 years, visitors poured into the area, making the phone booth one of the oddest【C3】________in the world
After its phone number was【C4】________on the Internet, the phone in the Mojave booth began to【C5】________more often. Visitors to the phone booth would often camp out, waiting for a chance to answer the【C6】________ phone. Calls came in from many different states and【C7】________different countries.
Visitors were thrilled to be able to【C8】________the phone and talk to strangers from【C9】________places. They were happy to【C10】________their own stories as they reached across the miles.
In May 2000,Pacific Bell Telephone Company quietly【C11】________the phone booth. The company said that【C12】________were causing too much stress on the environment. Fans of the booth【C13】________ insisting that the phone booth had become a work of art. Later, a plaque(标牌)was placed at the site as a tribute, but it also【C14】________.In the end, the phone booth left no trace on the desert that had hosted it. Fans of the phone booth, 【C15】________,can still hear the dial tone in their hearts.
【C11】
选项
A、polished
B、removed
C、decorated
D、reconstructed
答案
B
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