完形填空
Can you really make out the difference between British Isles, Britain, United Kingdom and England?
These terms are familiar to us, but meanwhile ____
1_____to us Chinese.
The British Isles are made up of two large ____
2____: One is Britain and the other Ireland. Britain, or
Great Britain, is the ____
3____of the two islands, which is ___
4_____ into three parts: England, Scotland
and Wale.The United Kingdom (UK) is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland. UK ____
5___ Scotland, Wales and England ( i.e. the whole of Britain), and also about one-sixth
of Ireland, the northern part. The ____
6____ of Ireland called the Republic of Ireland is another country.
England is the largest of the four, and generally speaking, the richest section. Its capital is London,
____
7____ is also the capital of the UK. London lies on the River Thames. Much of England is rather flat,
although there are ____
8____ in the northeast and in the center of the country. English people tend to use
the ____
9____ "England" and "English" when they mean "Britain" and "British". This sometimes upsets the Welsh and the Scots as they are not included. "Why don't they use 'Walsh' or '____
10___' ?" they may
wonder.
London is beautiful. Today, you cannot deny the beauty, myth, and wonder of the River Thames, which
has good ____
11____. However,in the nineteenth century, in some books, the Thames was ____
12____
as a grey, dirty, smutty, sooty, smoky river. These were not only existing in nineteenth century. It had
____
13____ been like this for centuries,never clear.
At that time, many ordinary people were ___
14 to cholera. This was the ____
15____ disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. No one knew the disease just came from the
___
16 water.
So many thousands of ___
17___
people died every time there was an(a) ___
18 . Disasters like these
always remain us unforgettable lessons.
Now you know England is of course different from the UK. At present, the UK played an important part in the ____
19____affairs. It is a member state of the United Nations, ____
20____ the European Union and NATO. "The UN, the UK and the US often go hand in hand in the world," people joke. Do you think so?
( )1. A. uninteresting
( )2. A. lands
( )3. A. larger
( )4. A. separated
( )5. A. approves of
( )6. A. part
( )7. A. it
( )8. A. hills
( )9. A. nouns
( )10. A. Scottish
( )11. A. appearance
( )12. A. observed
( )13. A. sometimes
( )14. A. brought
( )15. A. enormous
( )16. A. waste
( )17. A. worried
( )18. A. outbreak
( )19. A. western
( )20. A. except for |
B. surprising
B. islands
B. largest
B. divided
B. disposes of
B. half
B. that
B. lakes
B. words
B. England
B. tastes
B. found
B. often
B. shown
B. powerful
B. clean
B. wounded
B. war
B. European
B. as well as |
C. puzzling
C. continents
C. smaller
C. changed
C. consists of
C. rest
C. which
C. rivers
C. language
C. Britain
C. environment
C. thought
C. almost
C. led
C. terrifying
C. polluted
C. cured
C. fighting
C. international
C. linking to |
D. amazing
D. provinces
D. smallest
D. sent
D. complains of
D. others
D. who
D. plains
D. vocabulary
D. English
D. surroundings
D. described
D. always
D. exposed
D. deadly
D. pumped
D. affected
D. flood
D. nationwide
D. relating to |