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Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully (1)_____ only among people he knows well. In
Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully (1)_____ only among people he knows well. In
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Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully (1)_____ only among people he knows well.
In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seems inhibited, (2)_____ embarrassed. You have only to (3)_____ a com muter 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 usual. (4)_____, there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior which, (5)_____ broken, makes the person immediately the object of (6)_____.
It is a well-known fact that the English have a (7)_____ for the discussion of their weather and that, given half a chance, they will talk about it (8)_____. Some people argue that it is because English weather (9)_____ forecast and hence is a source of interest and (10)_____ to everyone.
This may be so. (11)_____ Englishmen cannot have much (12)_____ in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are often proved wrong (13)_____ a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather m all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate—or as inaccurate—as the weathermen in his (14)_____. The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at the number of references (15)_____ weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are (16)_____ by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn’t it?" "Beautiful!" may well be heard instead of "Good morning, how are you?". (17)_____ the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his advantage. (18)_____ he wants to start a conversation With an Englishman but is (19)_____ to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will (20)_____ an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen.
选项
A、prepositions
B、predictions
C、approval
D、defiance
答案
B
解析
名词辨析题。proposition n.主张,建议,陈述,命题;prediction n.预言,预报;approval n.赞成,承认,正式批准;defiance n.挑战,蔑视,挑衅。根据上下文,填入prediction符合题意。
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