武汉市中国地质大学考博英语真题及其解析.pdf

中国考博辅导首选学校 中国地质大学考博英语真题及其解析 Section Use of English Directions：Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A， B， C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10points) Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English， for they are used to thinking of the British IslesasEngland. 1， theBritish Islescontainavarietyofpeoples， and only the people of England call themselves English. The others 2 to themselves as Welsh， Scottish， or Irish， 3 the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed 4 being classified as “English”。 Even inEnglandtherearemany 5 inregionalcharacterandspeech. The chief 6 is between southern England and northern England. South ofa7goingfromBristol toLondon， people speakthetypeofEnglish usually learnt by foreign students， 8 there are local variations. Further north regional speech isusually “9”than that of southern Britain. Northerners are 10 to claim that theywork harder than Geng duo yuan xiao zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua: si ling ling liu liu ba liu jiu qi ba ,huo jia zi xun qq: qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi Southerners， and are more 11.They areopen-heartedandhospitable;foreignersoftenfindthattheymake friends with them 12. Northerners generally have hearty 13： the visitor toLancashireorYorkshire， for instance， may lookforward 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 中国考博辅导首选学校 northern type of Englishman. In Scotland the sound 16 by the letter “R” isgenerally a strong sound， and “R” isoften pronounced in words inwhich itwould be 17 in southernEnglish. The Scots are said tobeaserious，cautious，thriftypeople，18inventiveandsomewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (theWelsh， the Irish， theScots)arefrequently 19asbeingmore “