Question

Easy for one to learn a foreign language? When A student is learning to speak British English, he wonders: Can I communicate with Americans? Can they understand me? Learners of English often ask: What are the differences between British and American English? How important are these differences?

Certainly, there are some differences between British and American English. There are a few differences in grammar. For example, speakers of British English say “in hospital” and "Have you a pen?”, Americans say “in the hospital” and ‘Do you have a pen?’.Pronunciation is sometimes different. Americans usually sound theirs in words like “bird” and “hurt”. Speakers of British English do not sound theirs in these words. There are differences between British and American English in spelling and vocabulary. For example, “colour” and “honour” are British, “color” and “honor” are American.

These differences in grammar, pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary are not important, however. For the most part, British and American English are the same language.

1.According to this passage, we can guess a student who is learning to speak American English might be afraid that ________.

A. British people cannot understand him

B. American people cannot understand him

C. the grammar is too hard for him

D. the spelling is too hard for him

2.What is NOT talked about in the passage?

A. Whether there are differences between British English and American English.

B. Whether British English and American English are one language or two.

C. How the differences between British English and American English came about.

D. How important the differences are.

3.Most __________ say “Do you have a watch?”

A. British people B. Americans

C. children D. teachers

4.According to this passage, British people and Americans have __________ difficulty in understanding each other.

A. little B. much C. some D. great

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：很多語言學(xué)習(xí)者都想知道，英式英語和美式英語到底有沒有區(qū)別，其實是有的。這兩者在語法、發(fā)音、拼寫以及詞匯上都有區(qū)別，但是并不影響這兩個國家的人之間的交流。

1.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的When A student is learning to speak British English, he wonders: Can I communicate with Americans?可知，學(xué)習(xí)英式英語的學(xué)生通常擔(dān)心無法和美國人交流。那么，相對應(yīng)的，學(xué)習(xí)美式英語的學(xué)生通常也擔(dān)心英國人無法聽懂他的話，故選擇A。

2.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的What are the differences between British and American English? How important are these differences? 以及最后一段的For the most part, British and American English are the same language.可知，選項文章提到了A、B、D，沒有提到的是這些變化是怎么產(chǎn)生的。故選擇C。

3.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段的Americans say “in the hospital” and ‘Do you have a pen?’可知，美國人才這樣說，故選擇B。

4.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段的These differences in grammar, pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary are not important, however. For the most part, British and American English are the same language.可知，這兩者雖然有區(qū)別，但是還是同一種語言，也就是說兩國人交流是沒有多大問題的，故選擇A，指美國人和英國人彼此交流上幾乎沒有困難。

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