题目内容
Are the British people Europeans? This may seem a strange question to Africans and Asians, who tend to think of all white men as Europeans．But the British, when they are in Britain, do not regard themselves as Europeans．The Europeans, to them, are those rather excitable foreigners from the other side of the English Channel, who have never learnt how to speak English．Europe is “the Continent ”, a place full of interest for British tourists, but also the source of almost all the wars in which Britain has ever been involved．Thus , although geographically speaking Britain is part of Europe ,yet the fact that it is a separate island has made its people feel different from the rest of Europe and they sometimes annoy continental nations by failing to support them ,or even to understand them , in time of need.
Where did the British people come from? This is an interesting question, since they are a mixture of many different races, and all these races invaded Britain at various times from Europe． Nobody knows very much about Britain before Romans came during the first century B.C., but there had been at least three invasions before that．The first of these was by a dark-haired Mediterranean race called the Iberians．The other two were by Celtic tribes ;first the Gaels , whose descendants （后代）are the modern Scots and Irish, some of whom still speak the Gaelic language; and secondly the Britons ,who gave their name to the whole island of Britain．These were the people whom the Romans conquered．The Romans gave the Britons a good deal of their civilization, but they never settled in Britain in very large numbers, so the British race survived until the overthrow of the Roman Empire by the “barbarians”, i.e．the numerous Germanic tribes which overran the whole of Western Europe .
1．By raising the question in Paragraph One , the author .
A．shows his doubt whether the British are Europeans
B．means that both Africans and Asians are foolish
C．makes the readers interested in his article
D．means that the British are wrong
2．Which phrase best describes the attitude of the British towards “the Continent”?
A．Full of love B．Mixed feelings C．Much envy D．Lack of interest
3．The British feel very different because .
A．they are separated geographically from the continent
B．they were once attacked by the people on the continent
C．they sometimes fail to help the continental countries in time of need
D．they are considered rather difficult to understand by other countries
4．Which shows the correct order in which different races invaded British?
A．the Iberians, the Britons, the Gaels , the Barbarians, the Romans.
B．the Romans, the Iberians, the Scots and Irish , the Barbarians.
C．the Iberians, the Gaels, the Britons , the Romans, the Barbarians.
D．the Iberians, the Scots and Irish , the Romans, the Barbarians.
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