One big difference between British and American English is in vocabulary. For example, the British use the word “autumn” 1. ________ the Americans use the word “fall”. In this case, the older word is “autumn”. However, about four hundred years ago, the word “autumn” was 2. ________ with “fall”. Later, the British returned to “autumn”, while the 3. ________ still use “fall”.
Of course, people from many different countries came to America and made their 4. ________ to American English. Indeed, in American English there are words from every major 5. ________ spoken on Earth. Many of these words are absent in British English.
6. ________ big distinction between American and British English is spelling. After the Americans defeated the British in 1781 and 7. ________ independence, they wanted to make their spelling of English words 8. ________. Therefore, Americans write “color” 9. ________ “colour”.
Finally, the pronunciations and accents are different. Both countries have slowly 10. ________ the way they say the same words, but in different ways. This process is continuing even today.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:D
小題6:B
小題7:C
小題8:B
小題9:A
小題10:D
文章講述的是美國(guó)英語(yǔ)和英國(guó)英語(yǔ)在詞匯，拼寫(xiě)和發(fā)音方面的不同。
小題1:上下文，根據(jù)上一句可知，該句講的是英國(guó)英語(yǔ)和美國(guó)英語(yǔ)在詞匯方面的不同，所以此處應(yīng)當(dāng)選擇while表示對(duì)比，意為然而  when 既然，當(dāng)……時(shí)候 as   ,though盡管
小題2:上下文，根據(jù) the British returned to “autumn”可知，autumn曾經(jīng)不被使用了，所以選擇B意為被fall取代了。
小題3:上下文，根據(jù)第一段第二行the Americans use the word “fall可知，是美國(guó)人在使用fall這個(gè)詞
小題4:句意理解。Make contributions to 意為對(duì)……做貢獻(xiàn) invention發(fā)明，donation捐獻(xiàn) product陳品， 均無(wú)此搭配
小題5:句意理解。根據(jù)there are words 可知，此處講的是語(yǔ)言，所以此句意思是在美國(guó)英語(yǔ)中有很多詞是來(lái)自世界上所有的主要語(yǔ)言。
小題6:上下文，第一段中one difference is .. 此處是another difference is ……意為，一個(gè)區(qū)別是……，另一個(gè)區(qū)別是……
小題7:考查動(dòng)詞搭配。Gain independence意為獲得獨(dú)立 根據(jù)Americans defeated the British in 1781 可知，美國(guó)打敗了英國(guó)，獲得了獨(dú)立
小題8:上下文，根據(jù), Americans write “color” 39. ________ “colour”可知，是把單詞變簡(jiǎn)單了
小題9:同上
小題10:上下文，根據(jù)the pronunciations and accents are different可知，他們的發(fā)音和口音也不同了，因?yàn)樗麄兏淖兞怂麄冋f(shuō)同一個(gè)單詞的方法。
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