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  3. Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【21】______ only among people he knows well.

Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【21】______ only among people he knows well.

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问题      Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully  【21】______   only among people he knows well.
     In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seams inhibited.  【22】______   embarrassed. You have only to  【23】______   a commuter train any morning or evening to see the truth of this. Serious looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a corner; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual.  【24】______   , there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior which.  【25】______   broken, makes the person immediately the object of  【26】______   .
     It is a well-known fact that the English have a  【27】______   for the discussion of their weather and that, given half a chance, they will talk about it  【28】______   . Some people argue that it is because English weather  【29】______   forecast and hence is a source of interest and.  【30】______   to everyone. This may be so.  【31】______   Englishmen cannot have much  【32】______   in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are of- ten proved wrong  【33】______   a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate — or as inaccurate — as the weathermen in his  【34】______   . The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at the number of references  【35】______   weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are  【36】______   by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn’t it?" "Beautiful!" may well be heard instead of "Good morning, how are you?"  【37】______   the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his ad- vantage.  【38】______   he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman but is  【39】______   to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will  【40】______   an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen.  
【29】
选项 A、follows
B、predicts
C、defies
D、violates
答案C
解析 考查动词辨义与上下文理解。follow跟随，理解，遵循；predict预知，预言，预报；defy违抗，藐视，不服从，不符合；violate违犯，违反，冒犯。由下文的描述可知，这里应当是指英国的天气难以预报，所以选defy，指“不好预报”。注意violate虽与defy近义，但其宾语一般是法律、规定、守则等。
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