To others and themselves the British have a reputation for being conservative
To others and themselves the British have a reputation for being conservative——not in the narrow political sense, but in the sense of adherence to accepted ideas and unwilling to question them.The reputation comes partly from their (1) .For 900 (2) they have suffered (3) invasion nor revolution (except in 1649 (4) 1688) nor disastrous defeat in (5) .Their monarchy (君主政体) survives (6) serious question.Under its normal (7) political arrangements have been (8) stable that, except for the (9) interruptions in the seventeenth (10) , they have been adopted throughout (11) centuries to meet changing needs without violent (12) .Britain, in 1978, was (13) in managing without (14) written constitution; some fragmentary definitions of 1688 still (15) .There had been (16) quarrels, social and economic as well (17) political, but the quarrels had been (18) , usually (19) compromise.The underlying (20) had not been broken.
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fd11399210.html,nguage B.future C.history D.literature
2.A.centuries B.years C.minutes D.seconds
3.A.neither B.as C.or D.either
4.A.too B.but C.or D.and
5.A.home B.study C.peace D.war
6.A.and B.without C.with D.neither
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fd11399210.html, B.people C.leadership D.enemy
8.A.so B.very C.too D.such
9.A.two B.one C.no D.couple
10.A.month B.day C.year D.century
11.A.a B.any C.the D.few
12.A.changes B.change C.altered D.changed
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fd11399210.html,mon B.popular C.unique D.angry
14.A.two B.a C.some D.their
15.A.survive B.surviving C.survives D.survived
16.A.bitter B.happy C.pleasant D.unhappy
17.A.for B.as C.to D.at
18.A.settling B.settles C.settle D.settled
19.A.for B.at C.to D.by
20.A.continue B.continuity C.continuous D.continued
答案解析
1.答案C。解析：由于下文紧接着叙述到去900年过的有关情况。故应选history，才能与下文衔接。
2.答案B。解析：根据句子意思判断。
3.答案A。解析：应选neither才能与其后出现的nor构成并列连词
neither…nor…。
4.答案D。解析：根据句子意思判断。
5.答案D。解析：需选一名词与前面的介词in构成介词短语，且这个短语在语意上要与前面的disastrous defeat相吻合。故选D可以满足这个条件。
6.答案B。解析：without serious question意为“没有严重的问题”。
7.答案C。解析：“在……领导下”的表达方式是under the…leadership.
8.答案A。解析：so…that…构成固定短语，意为“这么……以致于”
9.答案A。解析：上面提到1649和1688两次革命，所以A项正确。
10.答案D。解析：根据句子意思判断。
11.答案C。解析：the centuries特指那些稳定的世纪。
12.答案A。解析：应从A或B中选一名词作介词without的宾语。将A和B加以比较：A.changes作可数名词用，意为“变化”，符合题意。B.change一词系不可数名词，意为“零钱，找头”。
13.答案C。解析：根据上下文意思,应选unique“独一无二的;唯一的”。
14.答案B。解析：没有一项成文宪法，a为一项的意思。
15.答案D。解析：应选survived才与上下文时态一致。
16.答案A。解析：bitter意为“尖锐的，厉害的”。
17.答案B。解析：as well as为一并列连词。
18.答案D。解析：settled符合语法要求。
19.答案D。解析：by compromise意为“通过折衷、妥协的办法”。如：We should settle our differences by compromise.我们应采取折衷的办法来解决我们之间的分歧。
20.答案B。解析：四个选项中，只有名词continuity正确。