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. 【21】______ , the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others 【22】______  to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, 【23】______  the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed 【24】______  being classified as "English".
   Even in England there are many 【25】______  in regional character and speech. The chief 【26】______  is between southern England and northern England. South of a 【27】______  going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, 【28】______  there are local variations.
   Further north, regional speech is usually" 【29】______  "than that of southern Britain. Northerners are 【30】______  to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more 【31】______ . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them 【32】______ . Northerners generally have hearty 【33】______ : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous 【34】______  at meal times.
   In accent and character the people of the Midlands 【35】______  a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
   In Scotland the sound 【36】______  by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be 【37】______  in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, 【38】______  inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently 【39】______  as being more "fiery" than the English. They are 【40】______  a race that is quite distinct from the English.
【21】

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A In consequence表示“因此”,表因果关系;选项B In brief表示“总而言之”,用于总结上文;选项C In general表示“一般说来”,用于概括叙述;选项D 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。D 是正确答案。
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