To others and themselves the British have a reputation for being conservativenot in the narrow political sense, but in the sense of adherence1 to accepted ideas and unwilling2 to question them.The reputation comes partly from their 1 .For 900 2 they have suffered 3 invasion nor revolution nor disastrous3 defeat in 5 .Their monarchy4 survives 6 serious question.Under its normal 7 the political arrangements have been 8 stable that, except for the 9 interruptions in the seventeenth 10 , they have been adopted throughout 11 centuries to meet changing needs without violent 12 .Britain, in 1978, was 13 in managing without 14 written constitution; some fragmentary definitions of 1688 still 15 .There had been 16 quarrels, social and economic as well 17 political, but the quarrels had been 18 , usually 19 compromise.The underlying5 20 had not been broken.
1.A.language B.future C.history D.literature
2.A.centuries B.years C.minutes D.seconds
3.A.neither B.as C.or D.either
4.A.too B.but C.or D.and
5.A.home B.study C.peace D.war
6.A.and B.without C.with D.neither
7.A.name B.people C.leadership D.enemy
8.A.so B.very C.too D.such
9.A.two B.one C.no D.couple
10.A.month B.day C.year D.century
11.A.a B.any C.the D.few
12.A.changes B.change C.altered D.changed
13.A.common B.popular C.unique D.angry
14.A.two B.a C.some D.their
15.A.survive B.surviving C.survives D.survived
16.A.bitter B.happy C.pleasant D.unhappy
17.A.for B.as C.to D.at
18.A.settling B.settles C.settle D.settled
19.A.for B.at C.to D.by
20.A.continue B.continuity C.continuous D.continued
Cloze Test 33
1.C
因为下文紧接着叙述到过去900年的有关状况。故应选history，才能与下文衔接。
2.B
依据句子意思判断。
3.A
应选neither才能与其后出现的nor构成并列连词neithernor。
4.D
依据句子意思判断。
5.需选一名词与前面的介词in构成介词短语，且这个短语在语意上要与前面的disastrous defeat相吻合。故选D可以满足这个条件。
6.B
without serious question意为没紧急的问题。
7.C
在领导下的表达方法是under theleadership.
8.A
sothat构成固定短语，意为这么以致于
9.A
上面提到1649和1688两次革命，所以A项正确。
10.D
依据句子意思判断。
11.C
the centuries特指那些稳定的世纪。
12.A
应从A或B中选一名词作介词without的宾语。将A和B加以比较：A.changes作可数名词用，意为变化，符合题意。B.change一词系不可数名词，意为零钱，找头。
13.C
依据上下文意思,应选unique与众不同的；唯一的。
14.B
没一项成文宪法，a为一项的意思。
15.D
应选survived才与上下文时态一致。
16.A
bitter意为尖锐的，厉害的。
17.B
as well as为一并列连词。
18.D
settled符合语法需要。
19.D
by compromise意为通过折衷、妥协的方法。如：We should settle our differences by compromise.大家应采取折衷的方法来解决大家之间的分歧。
20.B
四个选项中，只有名词continuity正确。