完形填空 Can you really make out the difference between British Isles, Britain, United Kingdom and England? These terms are familiar to us, but meanwhile ____ 1 _____to us Chinese. The British Isles are made up of two large ____ 2 ____: One is Britain and the other Ireland. Britain, or Great Britain, is the ____ 3 ____of the two islands, which is ___ 4 _____ into three parts: England, Scotland and Wale.The United Kingdom (UK) is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UK ____ 5 ___ Scotland, Wales and England ( i.e. the whole of Britain), and also about one-sixth of Ireland, the northern part. The ____ 6 ____ of Ireland called the Republic of Ireland is another country. England is the largest of the four, and generally speaking, the richest section. Its capital is London, ____ 7 ____ is also the capital of the UK. London lies on the River Thames. Much of England is rather flat, although there are  ____ 8 ____ in the northeast and in the center of the country. English people tend to use the ____ 9 ____ 'England' and 'English' when they mean 'Britain' and 'British'. This sometimes upsets the Welsh and the Scots as they are not included. 'Why don't they use 'Walsh' or '____ 10 ___' ?' they may wonder. London is beautiful. Today, you cannot deny the beauty, myth, and wonder of the River Thames, which has good ____ 11 ____. However,in the nineteenth century, in some books, the Thames was ____ 12 ____ as a grey, dirty, smutty, sooty, smoky river. These were not only existing in nineteenth century. It had ____ 13 ____ been like this for centuries,never clear. At that time, many ordinary people were ___ 14 to cholera. This was the ____ 15 ____ disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. No one knew the disease just came from the ___ 16 water. So many thousands of ___ 17 ___ people died every time there was an(a) ___ 18 . Disasters like these always remain us unforgettable lessons. Now you know England is of course different from the UK. At present, the UK played an important part in the ____ 19 ____affairs. It is a member state of the United Nations, ____ 20 ____ the European Union and NATO. 'The UN, the UK and the US often go hand in hand in the world,'  people joke. Do you think so? (     )1. A. uninteresting (     )2. A. lands (     )3. A. larger (     )4. A. separated (     )5. A. approves of (     )6. A. part (     )7. A. it (     )8. A. hills (     )9. A. nouns (     )10. A. Scottish (     )11. A. appearance (     )12. A. observed (     )13. A. sometimes (     )14. A. brought (     )15. A. enormous (     )16. A. waste (     )17. A. worried (     )18. A. outbreak (     )19. A. western (     )20. A. except for B. surprising B. islands B. largest B. divided B. disposes of B. half B. that B. lakes B. words B. England B. tastes B. found B. often B. shown B. powerful B. clean B. wounded B. war B. European B. as well as C. puzzling C. continents C. smaller C. changed C. consists of C. rest C. which C. rivers C. language C. Britain C. environment C. thought C. almost C. led C. terrifying C. polluted C. cured C. fighting C. international C. linking to D. amazing D. provinces D. smallest D. sent D. complains of D. others D. who D. plains D. vocabulary D. English D. surroundings D. described D. always D. exposed D. deadly D. pumped D. affected D. flood D. nationwide D. relating to