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　　Are the British people Europeans? This may seem a strange question to Africans and Asians, who tend to think of all white men as Europeans. But the British, when they are in Britain, do not regard themselves as Europeans. The Europeans, to them are those rather excitable foreigners from the other side of the English Channel, who have never learnt how to speak English. Europe is the“Continent”: a place full of interest for English tourists, but also the source of almost all the wars in which Britain has ever been involved. Thus, although geographically speaking Britain is a part of Europe, yet the fact that it is a separate island has made its people feel very ,very insular (隔绝的). They feel, and in many ways are, different from the rest of Europe, and they sometimes annoy continental nations by failing to support them, or even to understand them, in time of need.

　　Where did the British people come from? This is an extraordinary interesting question, since they are a mixture of many different races, and all these races invaded(侵略)Britain at various times from Europe. Nobody knows very much about Britain before the Romans came during the first century B. C. , but there had been at least these invasions before that. The first of these was by a dark-haired Mediterranean race called the Iberians. The other two were by Celtic tribes(部落): first the Caels, whose descendants(子孙) are the modern Scots and Irish, some of whom still speak the Caelic language; and then the Britons, who gave their name to the whole island of Britain. These were the people whom the Romans conquered. The Romans gave the Britons a good deal of their civlization, but they never settled in Britain in very large numbers, so the British race survived until the overthrow of Roman Empire by the“barbarians”, i. e. the numerous Germanic tribes which overran (越过) the whole of Western Europe.

1．The purpose of the passage is to ________.

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A．talk about Europeans

B．discuss the origin of British people

C．argue for the superiority of British people

D．compare the Europeans with Africans and Asians

2．It can be known from the passage that ________.

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A．most people think white people are Europeans

B．there are many Africans and Asians living in Europe

C．white men are Europeans in the eyes of Africans and Asians

D．the British people think of themselves as Europeans

3．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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A．Europeans are those who are unable to speak English

B．Those who invaded Britain came from the other side of the English Channel

C．Britain is a place full of excitable foreigners

D．Britain is the source of almost all the wars in Europe

4．Which of the following might be discussed after this passage?

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A．The Germanic tribes which invaded Britain.

B．The civilization the Romans gave Britain.

C．The Romans who didn't settle in Britain.

D．The survival of the British people in the 1st century B. C. .