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  3. Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea littered with small islands and skerries (碎礁). From the ferry, it appears to be near-em

Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea littered with small islands and skerries (碎礁). From the ferry, it appears to be near-em

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问题    Jura drifts off mainland Argyll in a sea littered with small islands and skerries (碎礁). From the ferry, it appears to be near-empty. 【F1】"There is nothing", is how people describe the place—an expression of either appreciation or horror.
   Only slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight, which has a population of 133,000, Jura has fewer than 200 inhabitants. The island has been associated for decades with the Astor family, descendant of the fabulously wealthy American Waldorf dynasty, and in particular with the former Observer newspaper editor, David Astor. For a century, Jura has been an anomaly: sparsely populated, yet associated with periodic influxes of the powerful, wealthy and glamorous.
   Britain’s understanding of itself—its identity and its place in the world—is deeply rooted in being an island. Yet Great Britain is not an island; it is made up of at least 5,000 islands, around 130 of which are inhabited. 【F2】But this geographical reality has often been ignored, because island, in the singular, brings with it the attractive characteristics of inviolability, steadfastness and detachment. As one clergyman put it in a sermon praising the Act of Union with Scotland of 1707: "We are fenced in with a wall which knows no master but God only."
   Even more erroneously, England is sometimes described as an island. Martin Amis wrote a television essay on England two years ago, which began with images of waves pounding chalk cliffs and the typical English mistake: "England is an island nation." 【F3】England in fact shares its island with other nations—Scotland and Wales—yet the language of sharing, of being part of an archipelago (群岛), has not featured in the English nation’s self-image.
   British culture has a long-standing love affair with islands. In Utopia, Thomas More wrote how King Utopos created an island from an isthmus (地峡) by digging a channel 15 miles wide. 【F4】Britain’s detachment from continental Europe brought a degree of protection from invasion, and was seen as God’s geographical blessing for a chosen, favoured people. Shakespeare bequeathed a treasure of vivid images of England in John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II: "This little world"; "This blessed plot". But there has also been an English contradiction about islands; 【F5】in a comparably famous passage, John Donne warned of the dangers of separation: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
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答案但人们常常忽略这一地理事实，因为他们认为一座孤立的岛屿，会有一些引人注目的特质：神圣不可侵犯、坚定不可动摇、独立不可分离。
解析 ①本句包含because引导的原因状语从句。②主句谓语使用了现在完成时被动语态has often been ignored。主语为this geographical reality。③原因状语从句是一个主谓宾结构，其中介词短语in the singular作状语，谓语是动词短语brings with，宾语是it，the attractive characteristics…detachment为it的同位语，补充说明it的内容，即岛屿吸引人的特质。
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