【正确答案】 In general, Britain's attitudes towards European Union changed from isolation to integration.
   (1)At first Britain wished to remain independent when Europe began a process of reducing national differences and of union into one community after the War. (2)But with her major ally, the United States, abandoning her during the Suez crisis in 1957, she turned to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1962. Though firstly rejected as considered too independent by the French leader, Charles DeGaulle, Britain joined the EEC in 1973 after DeGaulle's death. (3)On the whole, the British view towards their membership positively although the changes from the old British system of money, adoption of the metric system and the EEC's restrictive agricultural policies caused discontent. (4)As the EEC moves further toward a nation-state of Europe with a common currency and government, tensions can be expected to increase for the British resist further erosion of national independence.