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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. (1)_____, the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others (2)_____ to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, (3)_____ the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed (4)_____ being classified as "English".
Even in England there are many (5)_____ in regional character and speech. The chief (6)_____ is between southern England and northern England. South of a (7)_____ going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, (8)_____ there are local variations.
    Further north, regional speech is usually" (9)_____ "than that of southern Britain. Northerners are (10)_____ to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (11)_____ They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them (12)_____. Northerners generally have hearty (13)_____: the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous (14)_____ at meal times.
    In accent and character the people of the Midlands (15)_____ a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
    In Scotland the sound (16)_____ by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be (17)_____ in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (18)_____ inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (19)_____ as being more "fiery" than the English. They are (20)_____ a race that is quite distinct from the English.
选项 A、In consequence
B、In brief
C、In general
D、In fact
答案D
解析 此题属于语篇连接题。选项In consequence表示"因此"，表因果关系；选项In brief表示"总而言之"，用于总结上文；选项In general表示"一般说来"，用于概括叙述；选项In fact表示"实际上"，常用于语气的转折。文章首句说：很多没有到过大不列颠的外国人把那里所有的居民统称为English，即英国人，因为他们习惯把大不列颠群岛称为英格兰。下文强调：大不列颠群岛住着各种民族，而只有居住在英格兰的人们才把自己称为English，因此两句之间是转折关系。
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