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　　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 English tourists, but also the source of almost all the wars in which Britain has ever been involved. Thus, although geographically speaking Britain is a part of Europe, yet the fact that it is a separate island has made its people feel very ,very insular (隔绝的). They feel, and in many ways are, 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 extraordinary interesting question, since they are a mixture of many different races, and all these races invaded(侵略)Britain at various times from Europe. Nobody knows very much about Britain before the Romans came during the first century B. C. , but there had been at least these invasions before that. The first of these was by a dark-haired Mediterranean race called the Iberians. The other two were by Celtic tribes(部落): first the Caels, whose descendants(子孙) are the modern Scots and Irish, some of whom still speak the Caelic language; and then 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 civlization, but they never settled in Britain in very large numbers, so the British race survived until the overthrow of Roman Empire by the“barbarians”, i. e. the numerous Germanic tribes which overran (越过) the whole of Western Europe.

1．The purpose of the passage is to ________.

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A．talk about Europeans

B．discuss the origin of British people

C．argue for the superiority of British people

D．compare the Europeans with Africans and Asians

2．It can be known from the passage that ________.

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A．most people think white people are Europeans

B．there are many Africans and Asians living in Europe

C．white men are Europeans in the eyes of Africans and Asians

D．the British people think of themselves as Europeans

3．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．Europeans are those who are unable to speak English

B．Those who invaded Britain came from the other side of the English Channel

C．Britain is a place full of excitable foreigners

D．Britain is the source of almost all the wars in Europe

4．Which of the following might be discussed after this passage?

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A．The Germanic tribes which invaded Britain.

B．The civilization the Romans gave Britain.

C．The Romans who didn't settle in Britain.

D．The survival of the British people in the 1st century B. C. .

Answer 1

答案：B;C;B;A
解析：

1．B　　导解：从文中第一句可知，对于亚洲、非洲人来说，问“英国人是否是欧洲人？”这个问题很奇怪，因此此文会谈到它，即英国人的血统问题。 　　2．C　　导解：从文中第二句可知，很多亚洲、非洲人认为，只要是白人，他们就是欧洲人。A项说法不具体；B项在文中未涉及；根据文意，D项说法明显不对。 　　3．B　　导解：从文中可知，英国人称Europe为Continent，他们认为曾经侵略过他们的人来自Continent，即the other side of the English Channel. 　　4．A　　导解：根据文中最后一句可知，“日耳曼人越过了西欧”，因此文章很可能会叙述日耳曼人入侵英国的情况。