单选题
Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England.
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, the British Isles contain a variety of people, and only the people of England call themselves,English. The others
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to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish,
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the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed at being
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as "English". Even in England there are many differences in
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character and speech. The chief
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is between southern England and northern England. South of a line going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually
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by toreign students,
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there are local variations.
Further north, regional
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is usually "broader" than that of southern Britain. Northerners are
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to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more
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. They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them
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. Northerners generally have hearty
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: the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous
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at meal times. In accent and character the people of the Midlands
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a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
In Scotland the sound
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by the letter " R" is generally a strong sound, and " R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be
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in southern English, The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people,
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inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently
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as being more " fiery" than the English. They are of a race that is quite
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from the English.
【答案解析】[解析] 语法搭配
[解题思路] As可以引导非限制性定语从句，用来指代主句的内容，常翻译成“正如”的意思，它位置灵活，可置于句首、句中或句末。这句话可以理解为：正如事实有可能这样，选项[B]常和in构成短语，比如in any case(无论如何)，in no case(决不)，在这里均不符句意。选项[C]表示“因为”的意思；选项[D]表示“因此”。