| 阅读下面文章，根据要求回答下列问题。 |
| British English and American English Many students want to know the differences between American English and British English. Written English is more or less the same in both Britain and America, though there are some spelling differences. For example, the words colour, centre and travelled are spelt color, center, and traveled in American English. The differences in the spoken language are greater. For example, Americans say dance /dns/, and in southern England they say /da:ns/. In America, they pronounce not./nt/, in southern England they say /not/. However, most of the time, people from the two countries do not have any difficulty in understanding each other. How did these differences come from? There is no quick answer to this question. When people from England travelled to other countries they took the English language with them. At first, the language stayed the same as the language used in Britain, but slowly the language began to change from one part of the world. Sometimes, the English spoken in America or Canada or Australia changed, but sometimes the language spoken in these places stayed the same while the language in England changed. For example, 300 years ago, the English talked about "autumn". But Americans still talk about "fall" just as people do in some parts of western England. In the same way Americans use the expression "I guess" (meaning "I think") just as the British did 300 years ago. A great many words and expressions have come into the language from American English, for example movie, gas, store, mail, right away (at once), way of life and so on. American English has changed over the centuries, too. There are several reasons for this. One of the reasons is that people travelled to America from all the European countries and from other parts of the world, too. They started to use English, but they also brought in some words from old French. One of the States in the USA is called "Florida". In Spanish this is "the land of flowers". There are a great many American Indian words, for example, "to howl" means "to cry". And "cookbook" is a German word. |
| 根据文章内容判断下列句子的对(T)与错(F)。 ( )1. There are some differences between British and American English. So people from the two countries can hardly understand each other when talking to each other. ( )2. As time goes by, the English language stays the same. ( )3. Americans usually use "fall" instead of "autumn" when they talk about the seasons. ( )4. "Florida" means"the land of flowers" in American English. ( )5. People who travel to the USA add more words to American English. 根据文章内容，回答下列问题。 6. Which of the following words belongs to British English: movie, gas, mail or petrol? _______________________________________________________________________________ 7. Please give the American way of spelling of the following words: colourful, metre and traveller. _______________________________________________________________________________ |
| 单词释义：根据英语解释写出相对应的单词。 |
| 1. a lift in a building _______ 2. a word for petrol in American English _______ 3. as a matter of fact; in fact _______ 4. a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building _______ 5. all the words that a person knows _______ 6. happening often _______ 7. accept that something is true or important _______ 8. not suddenly _______ 9. a way of saying words that shows what place someone comes from _______ 10. a big piece or an area of buildings in a town or a city with streets on all four sides _______ |
| 词性转化：根据提示写出相应单词。 | ||
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| 用所给单词的适当形式完成句子。 |
| A. actual 1. Do you have any ____ experience of working as a nurse? 2. So far we have sent emails to each other but we have not ____ met. B. rich 3. In learning English, you should learn as many words as possible to ____ your vocabulary. 4. Crops grow well on ____ farmland. C. large 5. I will send the photos back to the lab to be ____. D. spell 6. — Give me the ____ of "girl". — It is ____ g-i-r-l. E. request 7. The head teacher has already refused his ____ to go home on weekend. 8. It is ____ that all the work be finished by tomorrow at the latest. F. express 9. Nowadays all parents in China ____ special concern about their children's progress at school. 10. Hearing my words, he had a puzzled ___ on his face. G. east 11. It is clear that the ____ part of the city suffered more from the storm. 12. There is a beautiful park near the ____ of the railway station. |