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  3. Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea littered with small islands and skerries (碎礁). From the ferry, it appears to be near-em

Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea littered with small islands and skerries (碎礁). From the ferry, it appears to be near-em

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问题    Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea littered with small islands and skerries (碎礁). From the ferry, it appears to be near-empty. 【F1】"There is nothing", is how people describe the place—an expression of either appreciation or horror.
   Only slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight, which has a population of 133,000, Jura has fewer than 200 inhabitants. The island has been associated for decades with the Astor family, descendant of the fabulously wealthy American Waldorf dynasty, and in particular with the former Observer newspaper editor, David Astor. For a century, Jura has been an anomaly: sparsely populated, yet associated with periodic influxes of the powerful, wealthy and glamorous.
   Britain’s understanding of itself—its identity and its place in the world—is deeply rooted in being an island. Yet Great Britain is not an island; it is made up of at least 5,000 islands, around 130 of which are inhabited. 【F2】But this geographical reality has often been ignored, because island, in the singular, brings with it the attractive characteristics of inviolability, steadfastness and detachment. As one clergyman put it in a sermon praising the Act of Union with Scotland of 1707: "We are fenced in with a wall which knows no master but God only."
   Even more erroneously, England is sometimes described as an island. Martin Amis wrote a television essay on England two years ago, which began with images of waves pounding chalk cliffs and the typical English mistake: "England is an island nation." 【F3】England in fact shares its island with other nations—Scotland and Wales—yet the language of sharing, of being part of an archipelago (群岛), has not featured in the English nation’s self-image.
   British culture has a long-standing love affair with islands. In Utopia, Thomas More wrote how King Utopos created an island from an isthmus (地峡) by digging a channel 15 miles wide. 【F4】Britain’s detachment from continental Europe brought a degree of protection from invasion, and was seen as God’s geographical blessing for a chosen, favoured people. Shakespeare bequeathed a treasure of vivid images of England in John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II: "This little world"; "This blessed plot". But there has also been an English contradiction about islands; 【F5】in a comparably famous passage, John Donne warned of the dangers of separation: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
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答案英国与欧洲大陆的分离，在一定程度上保护了自身安全，免受外敌的入侵，因此这座岛被视为上帝对其所选、受偏爱的人们的地理眷顾。
解析 ①本句是一个由and连接的并列句。②分句1是主谓宾结构，主语部分较长(Britain’s detachment from continental Europe)，包含后置定语from continental Europe，修饰detachment，说明英国从欧洲大陆分离出去。③分句2的主语与分句1的一致。谓语使用了被动语态(was seen)，as God’s geographical blessing…是主语补足语，进一步说明主语。
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