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Can a building be so ugly that people get angry just looking at it? For years, the Old Executive Office Building (the OEOB) in Washington, D.C., received __(11)__ its share of insults. President Warren G. Harding proclaimed that the building was "the worst I ever saw." Mark Twain described it as the "ugliest building in America." At a __(12)__ of ten million dollars over seventeen years of construction, the OEOB was completed in 1888. For many, it was __(13)__ at first sight. The building was used for many purposes over the years and then fell into neglect.
Then one day in 1974, a college student named John W. F. Rogers was working in the mail room of the White House. He was sent to get a chair in one of the OEOB "storerooms." Rogers thought he had entered "the castle of the Sleeping Beauty." "Everything was __(14)__ dust and cobwebs," he recalled, "and yet I saw beauty." Years later, Rogers became the administrator of the building. Once he was __(15)__ , one of the first things he did was to restore the old "storeroom." It is now the grand White House Law Library!
Years later, Rogers became the administrator of the building. Once he was ____, one of the first things he did was to restore the old "storeroom." It is now the grand White House Law Library!
Ain mind
Bin vain
Cin favor
Din charge正確答案
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