1 . The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure originally ________ in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October, 1851, and more than 14, 000 ________ from around the world gathered to ________ examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.________ by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1, 851 feet (564 m) long, with an inside height of 128 feet (39 m). It was three times the ________ of St Paul’s Cathedral.

The introduction of the glass sheets method into Britain by Chance Brothers in 1832 made ________ the production of large sheets of cheap but strong glass. Its ________ in the Crystal Palace ________ a structure with the greatest area of ________ ever seen in a building. It ________ visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not ________ inside lights.

It has been ________ that the name of the building ________ from an article by the playwright (剧作家) Douglas Jerrold. He ________ in a magazine called Punch about the coming Great Exhibition,________ to a “palace of very crystal”.

After the ________, the palace was moved to an area of South London known as Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill. It stood there from June 1854 until its ________ by fire in November 1936. The nearby residential (住宅的) area was ________ Crystal Palace after the landmark. Crystal Palace Football Club was ________ at the site in 1905. The club still ________ Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’s Crystal Palace Dinosaurs which date back to 1854.