Britain is not just one country and one people; even if some of its inhabitants think so. Britain is, in fact, a nation which can be divided into several __1__ parts, each part being an individual country with its own language, character and cultural __2__. Thus Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales do not claim to __3__ to "England" because their inhabitants are not __4__ "English". They are Scottish, Irish or Welsh and many of them prefer to speak their own native tongue, which in turn is __5__ to the others.

　　These cultural minorities(少數(shù)民族) have been Britain’s original inhabitants. In varying degrees they have managed to __6__ their national characteristics, and their particular customs and way of life. This is probably even more true of the __7__ areas where traditional life has not been so affected by the __8__ of industrialism as the border areas have been. The Celtic races are said to be more emotional by nature than the English. An Irish temper is legendary. The Scots could rather __9__ about their reputation for excessive thrift and prefer to be remembered for their folk songs and dances, while the Welsh are famous for their singing. The Celtic __10__ as a whole produces humorous writers and artists, such as the Irish Bernard Shaw, the Scottish Robert Burns, and the Welsh Dylan Thomas, to mention but a few.

　　[A]incomprehensible [B]temper [C]remote [D]separate [E]understandable

　　[F]forget [G]generally [H]temperament [I]preserve [J]strictly

　　[K]traditional [L]reserve M]growth N]apply O]belong

　　Answers:

　　1.選 D此處應(yīng)填形容詞，修飾名詞parts。文章首句即提出觀點(diǎn)Britain is not just one country and one people“英國(guó)不只是一個(gè)國(guó)家和一個(gè)民族”，又從后文的invided into, each part以及Individual country可知英國(guó)被分成幾個(gè)分離的部分，選項(xiàng)中只有separate表達(dá)了這個(gè)意思，故D)正確。

　　2.選 K此處應(yīng)填名詞。選項(xiàng)中有四個(gè)詞temper, temperament, traditions和growth,語(yǔ)言等是一個(gè)民族的文化傳統(tǒng)，故這里應(yīng)該填K)traditions，其他幾個(gè)名詞不符合上下文。

　　3.選 O此處應(yīng)填動(dòng)詞原形。前文中說明英國(guó)被分成獨(dú)立的幾部分，各自保存自己的文化傳統(tǒng);后文中because...說明蘇格蘭、北愛爾蘭以及威爾士的居民不承認(rèn)自己是“English”，說明他們并不承認(rèn)自己屬于“England”，故這里應(yīng)該選擇O)belong。apply也可以和to連用，但apply to表示“將...應(yīng)用于”，不符合上下文意思。

　　4.選 J此處應(yīng)填形容詞或副詞。選項(xiàng)中的副詞有g(shù)enerally和strictly，文中要表達(dá)的意思是因?yàn)檫@幾個(gè)部分都有自己的語(yǔ)言和文化傳統(tǒng)，所以嚴(yán)格來說，他們不是“English”，但他們都屬于English。故J)strictly符合文意。generally“一般地，大體地”放在原文意義上不夠嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)。三個(gè)形容詞不能使語(yǔ)義通順。

　　5.選 A從前文中prefer to speak their own native tongue即蘇格蘭語(yǔ)、蘇格蘭語(yǔ)和威爾士語(yǔ)，那么這些語(yǔ)言對(duì)the others(見注釋1)來說是陌生的，聽不懂的。那么就不難從選項(xiàng)中的incomprehensible和understandable中選擇前者，故A)incomprehensible“不能理解的”正確。

　　6.選 I由manage to結(jié)構(gòu)可知此處要填的是動(dòng)詞原形。選項(xiàng)中的動(dòng)詞原形還有forget，preserve和reserve。從下文中traditional life has not been so affected,可知他們成功地保存了自己的傳統(tǒng)，排除forget;reserve和preserve都有“保存”的意思，前者指存留起來以派別的用場(chǎng)，后者指想辦法保持原樣，強(qiáng)調(diào)抵制破壞因素，故I)preserve符合文意。

　　7.選 C此處應(yīng)填形容詞。從后文where traditional life has not been so affected by the ... of industrialism"人們的傳統(tǒng)生活受工業(yè)化...的影響沒有那么大的地方"可以推知，這些地方是比較偏遠(yuǎn)的地方，選項(xiàng)中的C)remote“偏僻的，遙遠(yuǎn)的”符合上下文意思。

　　8.選M Border area“邊界地區(qū)”的工業(yè)化發(fā)展的比remote area要快，所以此處要填的詞是表示上升、增長(zhǎng)的詞，表示工業(yè)化的發(fā)展，選項(xiàng)M)growth“增長(zhǎng)，發(fā)展”符合上下文意思。

　　9.選 F would rather和prefer意思相同，后面是寧愿讓人記住他們的好的東西：民歌，舞蹈等。前面說的是過分節(jié)儉的壞名聲，所以填入動(dòng)詞的意思應(yīng)該與remember意思相反，選項(xiàng)中的F)forget符合上下文意思。

　　10.選H 此處應(yīng)填名詞。選項(xiàng)中的名詞還有temper和temperament。前者指脾氣，指情緒上的主要特征，后者指特征、氣質(zhì)，尤指帶感******彩的個(gè)性和在社交上的個(gè)性。這里指的是整個(gè)凱爾特民族的特征，故H)temperament正確;