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  3. The word "brick" did not appear in the English language before the 15th century. Bricks_______【C1】have been known in Britain bef

The word "brick" did not appear in the English language before the 15th century. Bricks_______【C1】have been known in Britain bef

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问题     The word "brick" did not appear in the English language before the 15th century. Bricks_______【C1】have been known in Britain before then, but they were not_______ 【C2】enough to be mentioned by any write. We know that they were used in ancient Egypt, in India, and in the Roman _________【C3】; they were used again in parts of Europe; but there is a strange_______ 【C4】in the history of brick-making which left Britain, at_______【C5】, without bricks for building for several hundred years. When they did arrive in Britain, it was in a very_______ 【C6】way.
    In the 15th century, Britain’s wool trade was _______ 【C7】flourishing, and shiploads  of wool were exported to other countries, among them,  Germany and Holland.  These ships would have had to return empty, _______ 【C8】their captains were  able to pick up  a _______ 【C9】cargo,  and no captain  likes   an  empty  ship.   For_______【C10】 thing,   it  is   difficult  to_____【C11】 in  stormy weather; for another thing, it is a great waste of space. So _______ 【C12】than return home with an empty ship, the captains would _______ 【C13】up with anything,  and at about this time, somebody had   the   idea   of   loading   the   home-bound   ships   with _______【C14】.   These   were   already   being used _______ 【C15】in Holland and Germany, where the brick-makers were anxious to sell their sur-plus _______【C16】
    These bricks must have been a godsend to the builders of London and southeast England There was very ___________ 【C17】building stone in that, part of the country, and stocks of good building_______ 【C18】were running_______ 【C19】. Bricks were first used for the big houses of rich people living in the countryside, and only later for town houses and_______ 【C20】cottages.
【C12】
选项 A、more
B、other
C、rather
D、less
答案C
解析 空格前So“因此”说明本句是根据前文得出的结论，前文提到空船返航的种种弊端，故空格处指不愿意空船返航。结合后半句的would可知此处是would do rather than do“宁愿……而不……”结构，答案选C。
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