Question

請(qǐng)將下列方框里所列詞匯的正確形式填到短文中，每空限一詞，不能重復(fù)使用。

depend        important   similar    contribute     mean       pronunciation   differ      strength   end up        attend

We can see the 1) __________ between American English British English but they are different sometimes. Many students want to know about the 2) __________ between American English and British English.

At first the language in Britain and America was the same. In 1776 America became a (an) 3) __________ country. After that, the language slowly began to change. For a long time the language in America stayed the same, while the language in England changed. For example, 300 years ago the English talked about "fall".

Today, most British people talk about "autumn", but Americans still talk abut "fall". In the same way Americans still use the expression "I guess" 4) __________ "I think", just as the British did 300 years ago.

At the same time, British English and American English started borrowing words from other languages, 5) __________ with different words. For example, the British took "typhoon" from Chinese, while the Americans took "tornado" from Spanish.

In 1828 Noah Webster published the first American dictionary. He wanted to make American English different from British English, so he changed the spelling of many words. That’s why the words "colour", "centre" and "traveller" are spelt "color", "center" and "traveler" in American English. Except for spelling, written English is more or less the same in both British and American English.

They are also different in the spoken language. For example, Americans say dance /dæns/, and in southern England they say /dɑ?ns/. In America they 6) p__________ not /nɑt/; in southern England they say /n?t/. However, most of the time people from the two countries do not have any trouble in understanding each other.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

 similarities

 differences

 independent

 meaning

 ending up

 pronounce

【解析】

試題分析：文章主要講解了美國(guó)英語(yǔ)和英國(guó)英語(yǔ)的歷史淵源及其他們?cè)谡Z(yǔ)言發(fā)音和書(shū)寫(xiě)上的差異。

 通過(guò)后文，我們能夠看到美式英語(yǔ)和英式英語(yǔ)的相似性，但有時(shí)候也是不同的，故填similarities

 通過(guò)后文，很多學(xué)生想要知道在英式和美式之間的差異，故填differences

 根據(jù)歷史可知，美國(guó)在1776美國(guó)成為了一個(gè)獨(dú)立的國(guó)家，故填independent

 根據(jù)句意，美國(guó)人仍然用I guess 來(lái)表達(dá)I think 同樣的意思，故填meaning

 句中已經(jīng)有了謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞started ，故此處用ending up with 以…結(jié)束

 pronounce發(fā)音，動(dòng)詞形式，句意：在美國(guó)，人們發(fā)not /nɑt/這個(gè)音，而在英國(guó)的南部，人們發(fā)/n?t/這個(gè)音。

考點(diǎn)：語(yǔ)篇大意的把握和詞匯考察

點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文中所陳述的事情非常清晰，沒(méi)有太多生詞。對(duì)于此類填空題，學(xué)生需要讀懂全文，在理解了全文的基礎(chǔ)上，根據(jù)上下文的提示去寫(xiě)單詞，注重對(duì)所填詞的形式和所作成分的區(qū)別是解答本題的關(guān)鍵。