选择正确的答案:BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishAstudentisstudyingBritishEnglish.Hewonders:CanIhaveatalkwithAmericans?CantheycatchmeLearnersofEnglishoftenask---whatarethediffer
选择正确的答案:BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish
BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish
AstudentisstudyingBritishEnglish.Hewonders:CanIhaveatalkwithAmericans?CantheycatchmeLearnersofEnglishoftenask---whatarethedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishHowimportantarethesedifferences
Certainly,therearesomedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglish.Thereareafewdifferencesingrammar.Forexample,speakersofBritishEnglishsay“inhospital”and“Haveyougotapen”whileAmericanssay“inthehospital”and“Doyouhaveapen”Pronunciationissometimesdifferent.Americansusuallysound(发音)the“r”inwordslike“car”and“farm”.SomespeakersofBritishEnglishdonotsoundthe“r”inthesewords.TherearedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishinspellingandvocabulary.Forexample,“colour”and“honour”areBritishEnglishspellings.“Color”and“honor”areAmericanEnglishspellings.
Thesedifferencesareingrammar,pronunciation,spellingandvocabulary.However,theyarenotimportant.Forthemostpart,BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharethesamelanguage.
()1.InAmericanEnglish,wecansay,“()?”
A.Haveyouanewbook
B.Doyouhaveanewbook
C.Areyouhaveanewbook
D.Canyoutohaveanewbook
()2.BetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish,sometimespronunciationis()
A.poorB.differentC.high.D.short
()3.InAmericanEnglish,theword“favourite”canbespeltas“()”
A.favoruite
B.favurite
C.favorite
D.favrite
()4.Englishmensay“inhospital”,whileAmericanssay“()”.
A.atthehospital
B.inthehospital
C.byhospital
D.tohospital
()5.Themainideaofthepassageisthat()
A.therearenodifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish
B.BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharetwodifferentlanguages
C.speakersofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishspeakthesamelanguage
D.weshouldn’tspeakEnglish