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【单选题】Strange things have been happening toEnglanD、Still (1) from the dissolution of the empire in the years (2) World War Ⅱ, now theEnglish find they are not evenBritish.As the cherished "United Kingdom" breaks into its (3) parts, Scots are clearly (4) and the Welsh, Welsh.But who exactly are theEnglish What’s left of them, with everything but the (5) half of their island taken away
Going back in time to (6) roots doesn’t help. First came theCelts, then the Romans, thenAngles, Saxons, Jutes,Danes. Invasion after invasion, until the NormanConquest.English national identity only seemed to find its (7) later, on the shifting sands of expansionism, fromElizabethan times onwards. The empire seemed to seal it.But now there’s justEngland, (8) of a green island in the northern seas, lashed by rain, scarred by two (9) of vicious industrialization fallen (10) dereliction, ruined, asD．H. Lawrence thought, by "the tragedy of ugliness," its abominable architecture.
Of allEnglish institutions, the one to (11) on would surely be the puB、Shelter toChaucer’s pilgrims, home to Falstaff and Hal, throne of felicity toDr. Johnson, the pub- that smoky, yeasty den of jollity-is the womb of (12) , if anywhere is. Yet in the midst of this national (13) crisis, the pub, the mainstay ofEnglish life, a staff driven (14) into the sump of history, (15) as the Saxons, is suddenly dying and evolving at (16) rates.Closing at something like a rate of more than three a day, pubs have become (17) enough that for the first time since theDomesdayBook, more than half the villages inEngland no longer have one. It’s a rare pub that still (18) , or even limps on, by being what it was (19) to be: a drinking establishment. The old (20) of a pub as a place for a "session," a lengthy, restful, increasingly tipsy evening of swigging, is all but defunct.
A．Englishness
Britishness
C．Scottishness
D．Welshness

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
“这是个孕育的地方”。根据前文所述英格兰身份认同的问题，再加上乔叟、福斯塔夫等英国文学作品中人物的出现，故可以判断为Englishness。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>