广西柳州市高考英语完形填空【二轮】选练4及答案.docVIP

广西柳州市2016高考英语完形填空【二轮】选练（4）及答案 2016高考完型填空训练题。 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Generally speaking, a British is widely regarded as a quiet, shy and conservative (保守) person who is 21 only among those with whom he is familiar. When a stranger is present, he often seems nervous, 22 embarrassed. You have to take a commuter train (通勤车) any morning or evening to 23 the truth of this. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or 24 off in a corner; hardly anybody talks, since to do so would be considered quite offensive (冒犯的). 25 , there is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior, which, once 26 , makes the offender immediately the object of 27 . One of the few things we can say about the British with certainty is that a British takes a(n) 28 to the discussion of their weather and that, if given a chance, he will talk about it 29 . Some people argue that it is because the British weather 30 follows forecast and thus becomes a source of interest to everyone. This may be so. Certainly a British cannot have much 31 in the weathermen, whose predictions, in many cases, 32 to be wrong! The man in the street seems to be as accurate – or as inaccurate – as the weathermen in his 33 . Foreigners may be surprised at the number of references 34 weather that the British make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are 35 by comments on the weather. “Nice day, isn’t it?” “Beautiful day!?may well be heard instead of 揋ood morning, how are you?? 36 the foreigVerner may consider this exaggerated (夸大) and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his 37 . If he wants to start a conversation with a British but is 38 to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a(n) 39 subject to which a response may well be 40 of eve