The Taj Mahal is to open on moonlit evenings 20 years after security fears ended night visits. India’s Supreme Court will allow

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问题     The Taj Mahal is to open on moonlit evenings 20 years after security fears ended night visits. India’s Supreme Court will allow the famous (36)______ to love to open four nights a month, (37)______ for three months.
    The Taj, built in the 1600s by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a (38)______ for his wife, is a World (39)______ site. Only 400 visitors will be let in each night, and parking restrictions will be (40)______ around the site.
    The Supreme Court (41)______ came as state officials in Uttar Pradesh were celebrating the Taj’s 350th (42)______ close to its site in the city of Agra.
    "This reopening of the Taj for moonlight viewing is going to draw (43)______ crowds from across the globe," State tourism minister Kaukab Hamid said, " (44)____________.
    Tourist chiefs said more than 300,000 foreigners visited the Taj Mahal site in 2003, but numbers are down since the terror attacks in the US on 11 September 2003. (45)____________.
    The Sikh insurgency ended in the mid-1990s, but Indian authorities have remained reluctant to let visitors back to the Taj after sunset. During the height of tensions between India and Pakistan in 2001, officials drew up plans to disguise the Taj from possible Pakistani air attacks.
    Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as an expression of love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. (46)____________.

  

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