单项选择题

People of Burlington are being dis- turbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of higher educa- tion are in the bell tower of the church and have made (1) their minds to (2) the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest against heavy trucks which run day and night (3) the narrow High Street."They not (4) make it difficult to sleep at night, but they are (5) damage to our houses and shops of historical (6) ," said John Norris, one of the protesters.
"If we must have these noisy trucks on the roads," said Jean Lacey, a biology student, why don’t they build a new road that goes round the town Burlington isn’t much more than a (7) village. Its streets were never (8) for heavy traffic.
Harry Fields also studying (9) said they wanted to make as much noise as possible to (10) the government officials to realize what everybody was having to (11) ."Most of them don’t (12) here anyway," he said, "they come in for meetings and that the Town Hall is soundproof, so they probably don’t (13) . It’s high time they (14) the problem." The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were (15) on their side, and even if they weren’t they soon would be.
I asked if they were (16) that the police might come to (17) them from ringing the bell.
"Not really," she said, "actually we are (18) bell ringers. I mean we are assistant bell ringers for the church. There is no (19) against practising."
I (20) the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.

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