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(1)The Canterbury Tales, written be Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th Centur

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问题     (1)The Canterbury Tales, written be Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th Century, tells the story of a group of medieval pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury. Six hundred years later, the Star Wars movies were filmed on the same thoroughfare. This road is Watling Street—and there is no road in the English-speaking world more steeped in stories.
    (2) We now think of Watling Street as the A2 and the A5 motorways, which run diagonally across Britain from Anglesey in north-west Wales to Dover in south-east England. But the road has existed throughout all of British history. It is one of the few permanent fixtures of this island and one of the first lines on the map. It has been a Neolithic pathway, a Roman road, one of the four medieval royal highways, a turnpike in the age of coach travel and the traffic-choked "A road" of today. It is a palimpsest, always being rewritten.
    (3) Watling Street’s origins are lost in the mists of prehistory, but it seems to already have been ancient when the Romans straightened and paved the stretch between Dover to Wroxeter. Even at the beginning, the road was entwined with stories: it was said that the route had been built by King Belinus, a mythical figure related to the pagan sun god Belenus. Today, the road also runs alongside Elstree Studios, on the outskirts of London, where thousands of movies and television series have been shot over the last 100 years.
    (4) For many years it was believed that William Shakespeare wrote a play called The Widow of Watling Street; it was included in early collections of his work. It is now thought that the real author of that play was Thomas Middleton. But Shakespeare can still be connected to the road. Before the Romans bridged the Thames, the original route of Watling Street forded the river where Westminster Palace now stands. The route would have run close to where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Southwark later stood.
    (5) In 1922 the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined the term "noosphere", which refers to the realm of immaterial things. The noosphere is the place where you’ll find all our stories, as well as our laws, culture and philosophy. The word arises from the biosphere, the realm of all living things. The biosphere, in turn, emerges from the geosphere, which is the solid physical world. De Chardin recognized that the world of myths, legends and stories are ultimately rooted in specific parts of the material world. They emerge from place just as much as they emerge from imagination.
    (6) In the 21st Century, the noosphere has been referred to as "ideaspace", a term coined by the English comics writer Alan Moore and his mentor Steve Moore. Alan and Steve Moore both spent their lives living close to Watling Street, and the road appears in the work of both. As they see it, each of us has our own private estate in ideaspace, where our private thoughts and dreams can be found. But other parts of ideaspace are shared and public, and it is in these communal areas that widely known characters, stories and legends reside.
    (7) For the Moores, a walk across a landscape was as much a walk through the fiction, histories and associations of the area as it was a walk across the physical, material world. Seen through their eyes, a road as old as Watling Street—which is still used by hundreds of thousands of people every day—is essentially a machine designed to accumulate story upon story.
(8) Not long after the M6 Toll road opened in 2003, a family driving along it saw what they first thought were animals. Drawing nearer, they came to believe that they were looking at the ghosts of about 20 Roman soldiers. When the M6 Toll opened, the building supplies company Tarmac Group announced that its surface was made out of asphalt, tarmac and "two and a half million pulped Mills & Boon novels". Those Roman ghosts were not just wading through the physical accumulation of centuries, but the immaterial accumulation as well: the road is literally built out of stories. Populist, throwaway stories, admittedly—but then, romance is always the best genre to build roads from. [br] It can be concluded from Paras. 1 and 2 that Watling Street ______.
选项 A、was first written into a story by Chaucer in the 14th Century
B、became the shooting background of Star Wars movies
C、is one of the most important traffic arteries in Britain
D、has been repeatedly rebuilt in the British history
答案 B
解析 原文第一段第二、三句指出，《星球大战》系列电影就是在乔叟提到的那条大道上拍摄的，而这条大道就是惠特灵大道。可见这条大道就是《星球大战》的一个拍摄地点，故B项为正确答案。原文第一段首句虽然说到这条大道被写进了乔叟的故事里，但并没有说是首次，因此排除A项；原文第二段中虽然写到了惠特灵大道的基本情况和在各个历史时期的特点，但是并没有评价它在交通方面的重要性，故排除C项；D项“在英国历史上曾被反复重建”是对原文第二段信息的误解，原文只是说到了这条大道在各个历史时期的特点，并没有说到它是否被重建，因此也排除。
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