【单选题】

Many foreigners who have not visitedBritain call all the inhabitantsEnglish, for they are used to thinking of theBritish Isles asEnglanD、 (1) , theBritish Isles contain a variety of people, and only the people ofEngland call themselves,English. The others (2) to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, (3) the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed at being (4) as "English".Even inEngland there are many differences in (5) character and speech. The chief (6) is between southernEngland and northernEnglanD、South of a line going fromBristol to London, people speak the type ofEnglish usually (7) by toreign students, (8) there are local variations.

Further north, regional (9) is usually "broader" than that of southernBritain. Northerners are (10) to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (11) . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them (12) . Northerners generally have hearty (13) : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous (14) at meal times. In accent and character the people of the Midlands (15) a gradual change from the southern to the northern type ofEnglishman.
In Scotland the sound (16) by the letter " R" is generally a strong sound, and " R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be (17) in southernEnglish, The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (18) inventive and somewhat mystical.All theCeltic peoples ofBritain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (19) as being more " fiery" than theEnglish. They are of a race that is quite (20) from theEnglish.
A．quiet
B．obscure
C．faint
D．silent