To others and themselves the British have a reputation for being conservative --- not in the narrow political sense, but in the sense of adherence to accepted ideas and unwilling to question them. The reputation comes partly from their 1 . For 900 years they have suffered 2 invasion nor revolution nor disastrous defeat in 3 . Their monarchy survives without serious question. Under its normal 4 the political arrangements have been so stable that, except for the 5 interruptions in the seventeenth century, they have been adopted throughout 6 centuries to meet changing needs without violent changes. Britain, in 1978, was 7 in managing without a written constitution; some fragmentary definitions of 1688 still 8 .There had been bitter quarrels, social and economic as well 9 political, but the quarrels had been settled, usually 10 compromise. The underlying continuity had not been broken.
1. A.language B.future C.history D.literature
2.A.neither B.as C.or D.either
3.A.home B. study C.peace D.war
4.A.name B.people C.leadership D.enemy
5.A.two B.one C.no D.couple
6.A.a B.any C.the D.few
7.A.common B.popular C.unique D.angry
8.A.survive B.surviving C.survives D.survived
9.A.for B.as C.to D.at
10.A.for B.at C.to D.by
答案及解析：
1.C
由于下文紧接着叙述到过去900年的有关情况。故应选history，才能与下文衔接。
2.A
应选neither才能与其后出现的nor构成并列连词neither nor 。
3.D
需选一名词与前面的介词in构成介词短语，且这个短语在语意上要与前面的disastrous defeat相吻合。故选D可以满足这个条件。
4.C
在 领导下 的表达方式是under the leadership.
5.A
上面提到1649和1688两次革命，所以A项正确。
6.C
the centuries特指那些稳定的世纪。
7.C
根据上下文意思,应选unique 独一无二的;唯一的 。
8.D
应选survived才与上下文时态一致。
9.B
as well as为一并列连词。
10.D
by compromise意为 通过折衷、妥协的办法 。如：We should settle our differences by compromise. 我们应采取折衷的办法来解决我们之间的分歧。