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.【B1】______, the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others【B2】______to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish,【B3】______the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed【B4】______being classified as "English".
    Even in England there are many【B5】______in regional character and speech. The chief【B6】______is between southern England and northern England. South of a 【B7】______ going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, 【B8】______ there are local variations.
    Further north regional speech is usually "【B9】______" than that of southern Britain. Northerners are【B10】______to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more【B11】______. They are open-hearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them【B12】______. Northerners generally have hearty【B13】______: the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous【B14】______at meal times.
    In accent and character the people of the Midlands【B15】______a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
    In Scotland the sound【B16】______by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be【B17】______in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people,【B18】______inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently【B19】______as being more "fiery" than the English. They are【B20】______a race that is quite distinct from the English.
【B16】

选项 A、delivered
B、denoted
C、depicted
D、defined

答案B

解析 考查动词辨析。此空所在句子意为:在苏格兰,字母“R”所表示的音是强音。B.denoted“表示”符合句意。deliver“交付,投递,发表”;depict“描绘”;define“给…下定义”,均不符合句意。
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