题目内容
阅读下列对话,掌握其大意,并根据所给首字母的提示,在标有题号的横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式,使对话通顺。
A: Where are you from?
B: I’m from Canada.
A: Really? I t____76___ you were from the States. ________
B: That’s not s____77_____. A lot of people can’t tell ________
the d___78_____ between an American accent and a ______
Canadian accent. For example, most Canadians say news [nju:z],
but Americans say [nu:z]. We m___79____ use American words, _______
but we use quite a lot of British words too. We fill our cars
with “gas”, which is American, but we turn on the “tap” which is
British English.
A: Oh! And do you use American o_80 British spelling? _______
B: Both! American spellings are used more and more in Canada now.
G__81____ speaking, newspapers f___82__ the American way , but ______
conference reports and schoolbooks use British spelling. ______
A: That s___83___ strange. ________
B: You mean it looks strange! I’ll tell you something that does sound strange.
Many people think that C___84__ all over the country speak the same ______
way. But if you go to the eastern provinces, or go to some country areas,
you’ll notice that the people there speak quite differently f___85__ the ______
rest of Canada.
【小题1】thought
【小题2】surprising
【小题3】differences
【小题4】mainly
【小题5】or
【小题6】Generally
【小题7】follow
【小题8】sounds
【小题9】Canadians
【小题10】from
解析:
略