Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully 【21】______ only among people he knows well.

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问题    Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully  【21】______ only among people he knows well.
   In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seams inhibited.  【22】______ embarrassed. You have only to  【23】______ a commuter train any morning or evening to see the truth of this. Serious looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a corner; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual.  【24】______ , there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior which.  【25】______ broken, makes the person immediately the object of  【26】______ .
   It is a well-known fact that the English have a  【27】______ for the discussion of their weather and that, given half a chance, they will talk about it  【28】______ . Some people argue that it is because English weather  【29】______ forecast and hence is a source of interest and.  【30】______ to everyone. This may be so.  【31】______ Englishmen cannot have much  【32】______ in the weathermen, who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are of- ten proved wrong  【33】______ a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate — or as inaccurate — as the weathermen in his  【34】______ . The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at the number of references  【35】______ weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are  【36】______ by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn’t it?" "Beautiful!" may well be heard instead of "Good morning, how are you?"  【37】______ the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his ad- vantage.  【38】______ he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman but is  【39】______ to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a safe subject which will  【40】______ an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen.
【34】

选项 A、propositions
B、predictions
C、approval
D、defiance

答案B

解析考查名词辨义与句意理解。proposition主张，建议，陈述，命题；prediction预言，预报)approval同意，赞成，批准；defiance违抗，蔑视。由句意可知，这里是将英国的普通人与天气预报人员进行对比。而前文一直谈论的是预报不准确，这里当然也是将两者预报的准确性进行对比了。C ；D 两项与文意无关。

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