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Li Lei gets an e-mail   1  Jackson Wilson. Jack is a student in Canada. He wants to  2   Chinese.

Dear friend,

My name is Jack Wilson. I am from Toronto,   3   . I am 13 years old. I’m a schoolboy. I know China is a great   4   . I want to make friends(交朋友)   5   China and I want to learn Chinese.

There are nineteen students in  6  class. My classmates are from six countries. They are learning English. My parents are from France. They   7  French . I speak English and French. There are many Chinese   8   in Toronto. I want to learn Chinese ,   9   I don’t have any Chinese textbooks. Could you   10   me?

Please write back soon. Thank you.    

                                                     Jack Wilson

(1.A. for  B. to  C. from  D. of

2.A. teach  B. learn    C. speak  D. know

3.A. Canada  B. Japan  C. Australia  D. France

4.A. city  B. country  C. people  D. school

5.A. on  B. at  C. in  D. to

6.A. his  B. your  C. my  D. their

7.A. speak  B. tell  C. say  D. talk

(8.A. there  B. here  C. peoples  D. students

9.A. so  B. and  C. for  D. but

10.A. take  B. help  C. write  D. like

American and British people both speak English of course. But sometimes it does not seem like the same language. In fact, there are some important differences between British English and American English.
First of all, they sound very different. Often, Americans don’t say each word separately. They say several words together. Americans may say “I dunno” instead of “I don’t know”. Or they may say “Whaddya say?” instead of “What did you say?” however, the British are more careful in their speech. They usually say all the words and keep them separate.
Words sometimes have different meanings too. Some American words are never used in England. The same thing is true of some British words in America. For example, the vocabulary（词汇）for cars and driving is very different. Americans drive trucks, but in England people drive lorries.
Many expressions are also different in the two countries. In England, if you are going to telephone your friends, you “phone them up”. In America, you “give them a call”.
There’re also some differences in grammar. For example, when Americans ask a question., they say “Do you have a storybook?” But the British often say “Have you a storybook?”
All these differences can be confusing （易混淆的）if you are learning English. But most languages are like this. Languages change over time. When people live in separate places, the languages change in different ways. This is what has happened to English. It can also happen to other languages, such as French. Many people in Canada speak French but their French is very different from the French of France.
【小题1】What does the word “separate” mean in the passage? It means “____”

Over 30,000 years ago, people from northern Asia went to America. Today we can tell these people Indians.

The Indians went to America because the weather began to change. Northern Asia became very cold. Everything froze. They had to move or they would die. How did the first Indians go to America? They walked!

Later Columbus found the New World in 1492. At first, only a few Europeans followed. They traveled to America in boats. For the next 300 years, about 500,000 people went there. Then the number grew very quickly. From 1815 to 1915, over 32,000,000 Europeans left their countries for the United States. The biggest groups went from Germany and Italy. These Europeans spoke many different languages. Most of them took almost no money. They went to America so they could find a better life.

1.________ went to America first.

2.Why did the Indians go to America? Because ____________ .

3.The “New World” was _________.

4.These Europeans ___________.

5.The Europeans went to America in order to _________ .

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