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.
【B2】

选项 A、confine
B、attach
C、refer
D、add

答案C

解析 考查动词短语辨析。所选动词与to搭配构成短语。前文提到只有英格兰的人才把自己称为英格兰人。而其他人______自己为威尔士人、苏格兰人和爱尔兰人。refer to…as“把…称作…”,符合题意,故选C.refer。confine…to“把…局限于;管制”;attach…to“缚上,系上,贴上,使…依附于,使…依恋”;add to(=increase)“增加”,均不符合题意。
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