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It was said by Sir George Bernard Shaw that "England and America are two countries separated by the same language". My first personal ___1___ of this was when I worked as a camp instructor for two months in 2006 in a Summer camp __2__ by the Boy Scouts of America, __3__ part of an international leader exchange program. Before I went, all the participants in the program were given a list of words that are in common __4__ in the UK which Americans would either be confused by or would __5__ make them angry. I memorized the words and thought "I'll manage."
However, when I finally arrived in the States three months later, I realized that perhaps a lifetime of watching American television was not __6__ preparation for appreciating and __7__ the differences between American and British speech. In the first hour of arriving at the camp, I was __8__ to High School American English, Black American English and the American English spoken by other ordinary people, all very __9__ to each other. Needless to say, I __10__ manage in the end. The Americans I met were very helpful, and I found they were patient with me when I made a social communicative mistake when I used an inappropriate word or phrase.
(   ) 1. A. chance                B. opinion                    C. viewpoint                 D. experience
(   ) 2. A. run                            B. set                           C. controlled                 D. found
(   ) 3. A. with                   B. for                           C. as                            D. like
(   ) 4. A. sense                  B. practice                    C. phenomenon             D. use
(   ) 5. A. even                   B. ever                         C. hardly                      D. never
(   ) 6. A. wrong                B. adequate                   C. true                         D. real
(   ) 7. A. helping with        B. doing with            C. dealing with             D. comparing with
(   ) 8. A. shown                B. put                          C. faced                       D. exposed
(   ) 9. A. similar                B. alike                        C. different                   D. opposite
(   ) 10. A. did                   B. should                      C. might                       D. would
    
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