公共英语考试

【单选题】Many foreigners who have not visitedBritain call all the inhabitantsEnglish, for they are used to thinking of theBritish Isles asEnglanD、 (21) , theBritish Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people ofEngland call themselvesEnglish. The others (22) to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, (23) the ease may be; they are often slightly annoyed (24) being classified as "English".
Even inEngland there are many (25) in regional character and speech. The chief (26) is between southernEngland and northernEnglanD、South of a (27) going fromBristol to London, people speak the type ofEnglish usually learnt by foreign students, (28) there are local variations.
Further north regional speech is usually " (29) " than that of southernBritain. Northerners are (30) to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (31) . They are open-hearted 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 southern to the northern type ofEnglishman.
In Scotland the sound (36) by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R’ often pronounced in words in which it would be (37) in southernEnglish. The Scots said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (38) inventive and somewhat mystical. theCeltic peoples ofBritain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (39) being more "fiery" than theEnglish. They are (40) a race that is quite distinct fromEnglish.
A、helpings B、offerings C、fillings D、findings
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
本题考查名词词义辨析。helping“(饭菜的)分量”；offering“提供，奉献，献礼”；filling“填料，填充物”; finding“发现，发现物，发现结果”，此处是说到兰开郡或约克郡的参观者在吃饭时可以有望得到丰盛的……，四项中只有helping符合句意，所以正确答案为A“helping”。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>