单选题 Dramatic Peak District, with its genuine steep fells, never fails to astonish me. A car will 1 you all round the Peak District 2 a morning. It is nothing 3 a crumpled green handkerchief. 4 , we hear of search parties going out there to find 5 travelers. I have never explored this region properly, and so it remains to me a country of 6 . I could go on with this list of surprises, but perhaps you had better make your own.
Another 7 of our landscape is its exquisite moderation. It has been born of a compromise 8 wildness and tameness, between Nature and Man. One 9 for this is that it contains that exquisite 10 between Nature and Man. The fence and the gate are man-made, but are not severely regular and trim 11 they would be in some other countries. The trees and hedges, the grass and 12 flowers, all suggest that Nature has not been forced 13 obedience. The irregularity and coloring of the cottage make it 14 snugly into the landscape, and you feel it might have grown there, because it looks nearly as much a piece of natural history as the trees. In some countries, the cottage would have declared, "Man, the drainer, the tiller, the builder, has settled here." In this English 15 there is no such direct opposition. Men and trees and flowers, we feel, have all settled down comfortably together. The motto is, "Live and let live." This exquisite 16 between Nature and Man explains in part the charm of the older Britain. The whole town fitted snugly into the landscape, 17 they were no more than bits of woodland; and roads went 18 the easiest way as 19 as rivers. It was impossible to say where cultivation ended and wild life began. It was a country rich 20 trees, birds, and wild flowers, as we can see to this day.