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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 ease 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 open-hearted 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(暴躁的，易怒的)" than the English. They are (20)_____ a race that is quite distinct from the English.

选项 A、wider
B、broader
C、rarer
D、scarcer
答案B
解析 词义搭配。wide广大的，广泛的。它侧重指两边的距离(distance)。broad广阔的。它侧重指本身的广度(amplitude)。如：a wide use of a word。This is a broad question．此外，形容眼、口的大，应当用wide；形容肩、胸的大，应当用broad。本句中指方言本身的范围，故用broader更妥。
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