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　　Conservatism refers to the acceptance of anything familiar and refusal of anything strange or foreign．There are numerous facts that 　　1　　 the conservatism of the Englishmen．

　　The monarchy(君主制)as nominal(名義上的)　　2　　 of the state still 　　3　　 in the highly developed capitalist country．

　　The national anthem was, is and will be in the 　　4　　 1000 years the old “God Save the King,(or Queen)”．

　　English judges as usual wear long wigs in law courts, as 　　5　　 in many films shot in Hong Kong．(As a colony of the British Empire, Hong Kong was once 　　6　　 to adopt the British legal system．)

　　　　7　　 the fact that the feudal class is a 　　8　　of only history significance, noble titles are given to distinguished persons, who would 　　9　　 the titles as something of the greatest honor．

　　Many Englishmen still spend lots of money 　　10　　 dummy(虛設(shè)的)fireplaces that are of no

　　　　11　　 at all, although their rooms are 　　12　　 by gas or electric fire．They find it difficult to say 　　13　　 to the past．

　　As the first country to 　　14　　 the industrial revolution, Britain refused to 　　15　　 decimal(十進(jìn)位)system until 1971．Pence, shilling, pound and inch, foot, yard…all these are hard to be 　　16　　．

　　English people are always suspicious of any new plans of the government．Today they are still 　　17　　 of the Europe integration plan, thus they are not willing to 　　18　　 pound to be integrated into Euro Dollars．

　　Never talk about any kind of 　　19　　 to an Englishman, he would surely be 　　20　　 and keep away from you!