【阅读理解AstudentislearningtospeakBritishEnglish．Hewonders(想知道)：CanIcommunicate(交际)withAmericans?Cantheyunderstandme?LearnersofEnglishoftenask：Whatarethediffer】

　　阅读理解

　　AstudentislearningtospeakBritishEnglish．Hewonders(想知道)：CanIcommunicate(交际)withAmericans?Cantheyunderstandme?LearnersofEnglishoftenask：WhatarethedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish?Howimportantarethesedifferences?

　　CertainlytherearesomedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish．Thereareafewdifferencesingrammar．ForexamplespeakersofBritishEnglishsay“inhospital”and“Haveyouapen?”Americanssay“inthehospital”and“Doyouhaveapen?”Pronunciationissometimesdifferent．Americansusuallysoundther’sinwordslike“bird”and“hurt”．SpeakersofBritishEnglishdonotsoundther’sinthesewords．TherearedifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglishinspellingandvocabulary．Forexample“colour”and“honour”areBritish．“Color”and“honor”areAmerican．

　　Thesedifferencesingrammarpronunciationspellingandvocabularyarenotimportanthowever．ForthemostpartBritishandAmericanEnglisharethesamelanguage．

　　(1)

　　AccordingtothispassageastudentwhoislearningtospeakAmericanEnglishmightbeafraidthat________．

　　[]A．

　　Britishpeoplecannotunderstandhim

　　B．

　　Americanpeoplecannotunderstandhim

　　C．

　　thegrammaristoohardforhim

　　D．

　　thespellingistoohardforhim

　　(2)

　　WhatisNOTmentioned(提及)inthepassage?

　　[]A．

　　WhethertherearedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish．

　　B．

　　WhetherBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishareonelanguageortwo．

　　C．

　　HowthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishand