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题组二
一、完形填空A)
13 the city Londinium,but they were not
Two thousand years ago,most people liv-the first people there.People once 14 that
ing in Britain were Celts(凯尔特人).Then the the United Kingdom's capital city was named for
Romans 1 and built camps.These camps the castle of a king called Lud,but this is very
became cities called“castra”.This is why
15 Today,our best guess is that the name
there are so many British places'2 are comes from a Celtic word meaning a fast-flowing
ended in“-chester”or“-caster'”.Manchester
river.
is one example.The Romans 3 reached(
)1.A.arrived
B.changed
Wales and Scotland,so many places'names
C.remained
D.moved
there are still Celtic.For example,Welsh()2.A.countries
B.names
places'names that begin with“Llan”4the
C.seats
D.addresses
Celtic word for church.
(
)3.A.always
B.sometimes
After the Romans 5 Britain,it was
C.seldom
D.never
attacked()by Anglo-Saxon people.The ()4.A.come from
B.
come out
names of their villages often ended in“-ham”
C.come up
D.come back
or“-ton”.Some got their names
6 the(
)5.A.visited
B.built
leader of the village,7 Birmingham,for
C.left
D.controlled
example,means“Beormund's village”.
)6.A.from
B.about
The Anglo-Saxons were farmers and the
C.with
D.for
views were very 8 to them,so they have(
)7.A.unless
B.but
villages called Upton(“village on a hill”,a
C.so
D.or
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good place to build a village)and Moreton
)8.A.important
B.boring
组
(“village by a lake'”,where floods could make
C.different
D.strange
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life 9 )
()9.A.easy
B.pleasant
Twelve hundred years ago,Vikings(维京
C.wonderful
D.difficult
训
came to England.They traded with the()10.A.mountains
B.companies
Anglo-Saxons but lived in their own 10.
C.villages
D.governments
These places'names are often ended in "-by"()11.A.Luckily
B.Finally
or“-thorpe”._1l_,inl066,England be-
C.Exactly
D.Mainly
came Norman(诺曼人的)一the Normans make()l2.A.hopes
B.means
the places'names ended in“-grange”,which
C.knows
D.makes
12 farm.
()13.A.asked
B.called
And how about London?The Romans
C.p