外研版必修五Module 1、2、3 课文单词短语填空练习

高二第一学期期中考试单词短语填空练习

Module 1 British and American English

单词

1.The first and most __________________（显而易见的）way is in the

vocabulary.

2.Some of these words are well known —Americans drive

__________________（汽车）down __________________（高速公路）and fill up with gas; the British drive cars along __________________（高速公路）and fill up with petrol.

3.As a tourist, you will need to use the __________________（地铁）

in London or the __________________（地铁）in New York.

4.The British __________________（排队）up; Americans stand in

line.

5.Sometimes the same word has a slightly different meaning, which can

be __________________（令人困惑的）.

6.__________________（介词）, too, can be different:

__________________（比较）on the team, on the weekend (American) with in the team, at the weekend (British).

7.The British use prepositions where Americans sometimes

__________________（省略）them (I'll see you Monday; Write me soon!).

8.The other two areas in which the two __________________（种类）

__________________（不同，有区别）are spelling and pronunciation.

9.Many factors have influenced American pronunciation since the first

__________________（移民，定居者）arrived four hundred years ago.

10.W hen the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous

__________________（评论，讲话）that the British and the Americans are two nations divided by a common language, he was obviously thinking about the differences.

11.T here is probably as much __________________（变化）of

pronunciation within the two countries as between them.

12.F or more than a century communications across the Atlantic have

developed __________________（不断地，持续地）.

13.S ince the 1980s, with __________________（卫星）TV and the

Internet, it has been possible to listen to British and American English at the __________________（轻打，轻弹）of a __________________（开关）.

14.B ut it has also led to lots of American words and

__________________（结构）passing into British English, so that some people now believe that British English will disappear.

短语

1.Maybe you will prefer to __________________（四处走动）the

town by taxi (British) or cab (American).

2.The accent, which ____most ______________（与……相似）British

English, can be heard on the East Coast of the US.

3.A Londoner _____more _____________ __________________（理解

有困难）a Scotsman from Glasgow than understanding a New Yorker.

4.But it has also __________________（引起，导致）lots of American

words and structures passing into British English.

Module 2 The Human Traffic Signal

单词

1.On one side the mountains rise steeply; on the other side there is a

__________________（垂直的，陡峭的）drop, which in places is hundreds of metres deep.

2.But in practice, few drivers__________________（遵守）the rules.

3.But thanks to one man, the death __________________（事故、疾病

等的伤亡人数）has fallen.

4.Timoteo has an unusual job —he is a human traffic

__________________（信号）.

5.Every morning he climbs up to the __________________（弯曲处，