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Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isle

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问题    Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. 【21】______ , the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others 【22】______  to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, 【23】______  the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed 【24】______  being classified as "English".
   Even in England there are many 【25】______  in regional character and speech. The chief 【26】______  is between southern England and northern England. South of a 【27】______  going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, 【28】______  there are local variations.
   Further north, regional speech is usually" 【29】______  "than that of southern Britain. Northerners are 【30】______  to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more 【31】______ . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them 【32】______ . Northerners generally have hearty 【33】______ : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous 【34】______  at meal times.
   In accent and character the people of the Midlands 【35】______  a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
   In Scotland the sound 【36】______  by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be 【37】______  in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, 【38】______  inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently 【39】______  as being more "fiery" than the English. They are 【40】______  a race that is quite distinct from the English.
【38】
选项 A、rather
B、still
C、somehow
D、even
答案A
解析 此题属于语意搭配题，考查副词含义的区别。选项A rather表示“有点，相当”(to a moderate extent，quite)，如：a rather cold day。下文中的somewhat揭示我们应选一个与其意义相近的词，故A 是正确答案。选项B still表示“仍然”。选项C somehow表示“用某种方式，总算”，如：Somehow or other I was able to work it out．选项D even表示“甚至”，如：It is even colder today．
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