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Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isle

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问题     Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. (1)_____, the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others (2)_____ to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, (3)_____ the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed (4)_____ being classified as "English".
Even in England there are many (5)_____ in regional character and speech. The chief (6)_____ is between southern England and northern England. South of a (7)_____ going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, (8)_____ there are local variations.
    Further north, regional speech is usually" (9)_____ "than that of southern Britain. Northerners are (10)_____ to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (11)_____ They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them (12)_____. Northerners generally have hearty (13)_____: the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous (14)_____ at meal times.
    In accent and character the people of the Midlands (15)_____ a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
    In Scotland the sound (16)_____ by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be (17)_____ in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (18)_____ inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (19)_____ as being more "fiery" than the English. They are (20)_____ a race that is quite distinct from the English.

选项 A、perfect
B、notorious
C、superior
D、thorough
答案D
解析 此题属于语意搭配题。选项thorough表示"彻底的，完全的，纯正的"，可与more构成比较级，因此是正确答案。选项perfect表示"完美的"，没有比较级和最高级形式；选项notorious表不"臭名昭著的"，例如：a notorious thief(声名狼藉的窃贼)，此选项与上下文内容相悖；选项superior表示"比…好，优越"，已含有比较级含义，但不能与more连用，通常用法是A is superior to B，例如：This TV set is superior to that one in quality．(这台电视机比那台的质量要好)。全句可译为：北部人往往声称他们比南部人更勤奋，因而是更纯粹的英国人。
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