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  3. The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and 【S1】______ overt

The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and 【S1】______ overt

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问题 The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and 【S1】______ overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, 【S2】______ both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, 【S3】______ they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated 【S4】______ rather than outright revolution. During the conflict, people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not 【S5】______ disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.
    America’s War of Independence heralded the birth of three modem nations. One was Canada, which 【S6】______ its first large influx of English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States; 【S7】______ was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer 【S8】______ for prisoners and debtors; the third newcomer—the United States — based itself squarely on republican principles.
    Yet even the political overturn was not so 【S9】______ as one might suppose. In some states, notably Connecticut and Rhode Island, the war largely ratified a colonial self-rule already existing. British officials, everywhere ousted, were 【S10】______ by a home-grown governing class, which promptly sought a local substitute for king and parliament.

A violent         B seriously         C revolutionary        D evolution
E another         F and               G replaced             H repelled
I other           J received          K but                  L severe
M available       N when              O revolution
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答案C
解析 根据文章的总体思想和行文逻辑，可知此处填入revolutionary，表示“革命性的，猛烈的”
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