25．做某事有困难have difficulty (in) doing sth.

26．引起；导致lead to

27．compare...with...把......和......相比

28．turn on打开

29．as well as除......之外；也；还

30．lead sb.to do sth.使得某人做某事Ⅳ.完成句子(共5小题；每题8分，满分40分)

31．Americans use a flashlight，while for the British，it's a torch.

美国人把手电筒称为flashlight，而英国人则叫它torch。

32．The other two areas in which the two varieties differ are spelling and pronunciation.

这两种英语在其他两个方面也有不同，即拼写和发音。

33．Since the 1980s，with satellite TV and the Internet，it has been possible to listen to British and American English at the flick of a switch.

自从20世纪80年代以来，通过卫星电视和互联网，只需按一下开关就可能听到英式和美式英语。

34．This non­stop communication，the experts think，has made it easier for British people and Americans to understand each other.

专家们认为，这样不间断的交流使英国人和美国人彼此理解起来更加容易。

35．But it has also led to lots of American words and structures passing into British English，so that some people now believe that British English will disappear.

但是这也致使大量美式单词和结构传入英式英语，所以现在有些人认为英式英语将会消失。

重点词汇

We have really everything in common with America nowadays，except of course，language.现今我们真的与美国在每一件事情上都有共同之处，当然语言除外。

(have...in common (with)(和......)有共同之处，(和......)有相同的特点

have a lot/much/little/nothing in common with和......有许多/几乎没有/没有共同之处

in common with sb./sth.与某人/某物一样

(1)What surprised me most is that the twins have nothing in common with each other.

使我最为吃惊的是这对双胞胎毫无共同之处。

(2)We two have so much in common that we can get along very well.我们俩有这么多的共同点，以至于能够很好地相处。