外研版必修五MODULE 1 词汇和语法填空练习
Chips or French files
But other words and 13.__________(express) are not so well known. Americans use a 14.________(手电筒), 15.________ for the British, it's a 16.______(手电筒). The British 17.__________(排队)up; Americans stand in line. Sometimes the same word has a 18.__________(slight) different meaning, 19._________ can be 20.____________(confuse). Chips, for example, are pieces of hot fried potato in Britain; in the States chips are very thin and 21._________(sell) in 22.________(盒). The British call these crisps. The chips the British know and love are French fries on the 23._________ side of the Atlantic.
Have or have got?
There are a few 24.________(differ) 25._________ 26._________(语法), too. The British say Have you got...? 27.__________ Americans prefer Do you have .-.? An American might say My friend just arrived, but a British person would say My friend has just arrived. Prepositions, too, can be different: 28.________(比较) on the team, on the weekend (American) 29.________ in the team, at the weekend (British). The British use prepositions 30.________ Americans sometimes omit them. (I'll see you Monday, Write me soon!).
Colour or color?
The other two areas 31._______ ________ the two 32.________(变体) differ are spelling and 33.___________(发音). American spelling seems simpler:enter, color and program instead of centre, colour and programme. Many 34.________(因素) 35.________ (influence) American 36.________(发音) since the first 37.__________(定居者) arrived four hundred years ago. The 38._______(口音), 39.________ is most similar to British English, can 40.____________(hear) on the East 41.________(海岸) of the US. When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous 42._________(评论) 43.________the British and the Americans are two nations 44._________(divide) by a comon language, he was 45._________(obvious) thinking about the 46.________(differ). But are they really so important? After all, there is probably47._______ much48._______ (vary) of 49.________(发音) within the two countries as between them. A Londoner has more difficulty 50._______(understand) a Scotsman from Glasgow than 51.________(understand) a New Yorker.
Turn on the TV
Some 52._________(专家) believe that the two 53._______(vary) are moving closer together. For more than a54.________(世纪)55.__________(交流) 56._______ the Atlantic 57._________(develop)58._________( steady). Since the 1980s, with satellite TV and the Internet, 59.________ 60._________(be) possible to listen to British and American English 61.___________________________(一轻按开关). This non-stop 62.__________(交流), the 63._______(专家) think, has made 64._______easier 65.________British people and Americans to understand each other. But it has also 66._________(lead) to lots of American words and 67.________(结构) 68.________(pass) into British English, 69._____ _____ some people now believe that British English will disappear.
70.___________, if you turn on CNN, the American TV network, you find newsreaders and 71.________(天气预报员) all 72._________(speak) with different 73._______(口音) - American, British, Australian, and even Spanish. One of the best-known 74._______(face), Monita Rajpal, was born in Hong Kong. China, and grew up,75.________( speak) Chinese and Punjabi, as well as English.
This international dimension suggests that in the future, there76._______(be) going to be many "Englishes", not just two main 77.________(vary). But the message is "Don't worry." Users of English will all be able to understand each other---78.______they are.
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