People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells.Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the ____1____ and have made up their minds to ____2____ the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest against heavy trucks which run ____3____ through the narrow High Street.They not only make it ____4____ to sleep at night, but they are ____5____ damage to our houses and shops of historical ____6____ ,said John Norris, one of the protesters.
____7____ we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,said Jean Lacey, a biology student, why dont they build a new road that goes round the town? Burlington isnt much more than a ____8____ village.Its streets were never ____9____ for heavy traffic.
Harry Fields also studying ____10____ said they wanted to make as much ____11____ possible to force the government officials to realize what everybody wasshavingsto ____12____ .Most of them dont ____13____ here anyway,he said,they come in for meetings and that, and the Town Hall is soundproof, so they probably dont ____14____ .Its high time they realized the problem.The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were____ 15____ on their side, and even if they werent they soon would be.
I asked if they were ____16____ that the police might come to ____17 ____them.
Not really,she said,actually we are 18 bellringers.I mean we are assistant bellringers for the church.There is no ____19____ against practising.
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