1、英語四級完形填空精選練習及詳細解析To others and themselves the British have a reputation for being conservativenot in the narrow political sense,but in the sense of adherence to accepted ideas and unwilling to question them.The reputation comes partly from their1.For9002they have suffered3invasion nor revolution(exc

2、ept in164941688nor disastrous defeat in5.Their monarchy(君主政體survives6serious question.Under its normal7political arrangements have been8stable that,except for the9interruptions in the seventeenth10,they have been adopted throughout 11centuries to meet changing needs without violent12.Britain,in1978,

3、was13 in managing without14written constitution;some fragmentary definitions of1688 still15.There had been16quarrels,social and economic as well17political,but the quarrels had been18,usually19compromise.The underlying20had not been broken.答案+解說:1.【答案】C【解析】由于下文緊接著敘述到過去900年的有關情況。故應選history,才能與下文銜接。2.

4、【答案】B【解析】根據句子意思判斷。3.【答案】A【解析】應選neither才能與其后出現的nor構成并列連詞neithernor。4.【答案】D【解析】根據句子意思判斷。5.【答案】D【解析】需選一名詞與前面的介詞in構成介詞短語,且這個短語在語意上要與前面的disastrous defeat相吻合。故選D可以滿足這個條件。6.【答案】B【解析】without serious question意為“沒有嚴重的問題”。7.【答案】C【解析】“在領導下”的表達方式是under theleadership.8.【答案】A【解析】sothat構成固定短語,意為“這么以致于”9.【答案】A【解析】上面

5、提到1649和1688兩次革命,所以A項正確。10.【答案】D【解析】根據句子意思判斷。11.【答案】C【解析】the centuries特指那些穩定的世紀。12.【答案】A【解析】應從A或B中選一名詞作介詞without的賓語。將A和B加以比較: A.changes作可數名詞用,意為“變化”,符合題意。B.change一詞系不可數名詞,意為“零錢,找頭”。13.【答案】C【解析】根據上下文意思,應選unique“獨一無二的;唯一的”。14.【答案】B【解析】沒有一項成文憲法,a為一項的意思。15.【答案】D【解析】應選survived才與上下文時態一致。16.【答案】A【解析】bitter意為“尖銳的,厲害的”。17.【答案】B【解析】as well as為一并列連詞。18.【答案】D【解析】settled符合語法要求。19.【答案】D【解析】by compromise意為“通過折衷、妥協的辦法”。如:We should settle o