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Three of the most popular places to visit in London are the Tower, the Zoo and Madame Tussaud’s waxworks (蜡像) museum. This last-
Three of the most popular places to visit in London are the Tower, the Zoo and Madame Tussaud’s waxworks (蜡像) museum. This last-
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Three of the most popular places to visit in London are the Tower, the Zoo and Madame Tussaud’s waxworks (蜡像) museum. This last-named (21) has the most famous exhibition of waxwork models (22) famous and infamous people in the world. It was (23) by a woman artist named Marie Tussaud.
Marie Grosholtz studied wax modelling (24) her uncle in Paris. She modelled many famous people, particularly the (25) figures in the French Revolution. As (26) cut heads fell (27) the guillotine (断头台), Marie started (28) them immediately.
In 1793 her uncle (29) and she inherited (继承) his museum and (30) collection. Seven years later she (31) to London and in 1802 she put (32) her first exhibition, in the Strand. It was (33) Madame Tussaud’s, because that was the (34) of the Frenchman she had married. The exhibition was very (35) , and she took care to (36) the figures up to date. In 1833 it moved to Baker Street and remained there (37) well past her death.
Her sons moved the exhibition to Marylebone in 1884, (38) it still stands today. (39) of it was damaged by fire in 1925 but the moulds (模型) from which the heads were made (40) and by 1927 the building had been repaired and the figures replaced (替换).
选项
A、before
B、after
C、till
D、since
答案
C
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