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

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

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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 seems inhibited,  【22】______   embarrassed. You have only  【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 comer; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual.  【24】______   , there is here an unwritten but clearly understood code of behaviours 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 often 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 all 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 advantage.  【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.
【40】
选项 A、stimulate
B、constitute
C、furnish
D、provoke
答案D
解析 本题考查词义辨析。表达“引起对方回答问题”的含义。provoke 意为“驱使”，表示引起，如：provoke laughter 引起大笑。而stimulate 意为“刺激，激励”；constitute 意为“制定(法律)；furnish 意为“供应，提供”均不符合题意。
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