首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【21】______ only among people he knows well. In
Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【21】______ only among people he knows well. In
admin
2010-07-06
54
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 seems inhibited, 【22】______ embarrassed. You have only 【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 comer; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual. 【24】______ , there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behaviours 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 often 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 all 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 advantage. 【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.
【34】
选项
A、propositions
B、predictions
C、approval
D、defiance
答案
B
解析
本题考查词义辨析。此处是与天气预报员比较,天气预报员对未来天气的判断应为预测,所以选predictions 意为“预言,预报”。其他选项均不合题意:propositions意为“主张,建议”;approval 意为“赞成,承认”,如:He showed his approval by smiling。defiance意为“挑战,蔑视”,in defiance of 意为“公然蔑视,挑战”,都不合题意,故答案选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/iCDd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Thereareasmanydefinitionsofphilosophyastherearephilosophers—perhapsthereareevenmore.Afterthreemillenniaofphil
Miserabilists’fearofchange;idealists’hopeforabetterworld;anall-purposeadultnostalgiaforlostyouth;allthesethin
Miserabilists’fearofchange;idealists’hopeforabetterworld;anall-purposeadultnostalgiaforlostyouth;allthesethin
Miserabilists’fearofchange;idealists’hopeforabetterworld;anall-purposeadultnostalgiaforlostyouth;allthesethin
Miserabilists’fearofchange;idealists’hopeforabetterworld;anall-purposeadultnostalgiaforlostyouth;allthesethin
Austerityisawordoftenfoundonthelipsofpoliticiansandeconomistsatthemoment,butitisseldomheardfromtechnologis
Payandproductivity,itisgenerallyassumed,shouldberelated.Buttherelationshipseemstoweaken【C1】________peoplegetold
Payandproductivity,itisgenerallyassumed,shouldberelated.Buttherelationshipseemstoweaken【C1】________peoplegetold
随机试题
阅读小说片段,回答问题:“好香的干菜,——听到了风声了么?”赵七爷站在七斤的后面七斤嫂的对面说。“皇帝坐了龙庭了。”七斤说。七斤嫂看着七爷的脸,竭力陪笑道,“皇帝已经坐了龙庭了,几时皇恩大赦呢?”“皇恩大赦?——大赦是慢慢地
往来寒热,胸胁苦满,郁郁微烦,呕吐不止,心下满痛,大便不解,舌苔黄厚,脉弦有力者,治宜选用
下列具有峻下热结功效的方药是
下列哪种屋面仅适用于我国南方?
《中华人民共和国建筑法》规定,从事建筑活动的建筑施工企业、勘察单位、设计单位和工程监理单位,应当具备的条件包括( )。
财政政策的具体内容是什么?
某企业2015年12月31日购入一台机器设备,原值为200000元,预计净残值为8000元,预计使用年限为5年,采用年限平均法计提折旧。2018年12月31日,该机器设备发生减值,公允价值减去处置费用后的全额为70000元,未来现金流量的现值为80
(2016年)下列人物与作品对应错误的是()
ShoppingforClothesShoppingforclothesisnotthesameexperienceforamanasitisforawoman.Amangoesshoppingbec
Readthearticlebelowaboutbeingfirsttomarket,andthequestionsontheoppositepage.Foreachquestion(13-18),marko
最新回复
(
0
)