第二节:阅读下面短文,从短文后所给的选项中选出能填入短文空白处的最佳选项,使短文通顺连贯,其中有两项是多余选项。(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)(2025·江苏无锡天一实验中学期中)
American and British people both speak English.
D
16
F
17
Often, Americans don't say each word separately(单独地). They say words together. Americans may say "I dunno. " instead of "I don't know. " However, the British are more careful. They usually say all the words and keep them separate.
Sound is not the only difference. Sometimes they have different words for the same thing.
C
18
Americans drive lorries, but in the UK people drive trucks.
G
19
In the UK, if you are going to call your friends, you "phone them up". In America, you "give them a call".
Most languages are like this. Languages change over time. When people live in separate places, languages change in different ways. This is what has happened to English.
B
20
Many people in Canada speak French but their French is very different from the French in France.
16.
D
17.
F
18.
C
19.
G
20.
B
解析：
【分析】
本题为英语七选五题型，需结合上下文的语义逻辑（转折、举例、递进等）选择合适句子。16题前句提到英美都讲英语，后句需转折说明二者的差异，对应选项D；17题后句围绕发音差异展开，需引出发音不同的句子，对应F；18题前句提及同一事物有不同词汇，后句举例汽车相关词汇差异，需选举例句，对应C；19题后句讲表达的不同，需选关于表达差异的句子，对应G；20题前句说明英语的变化，后句举法语的例子，需选涉及其他语言的句子，对应B。
【解析】
16. 前文“American and British people both speak English.”与后文讲二者差异形成转折，选项D“But sometimes there are some important differences between British English and American English.”符合转折逻辑，故选D。
17. 后文具体描述英美英语发音的不同（如美国人连读、英国人分开说），选项F“First of all, they sound very different.”引出发音差异的话题，故选F。
18. 前文“Sometimes they have different words for the same thing.”后举例“lorries（英）和trucks（美）”，选项C“For example, the vocabulary for cars and driving is very different.”承接举例，故选C。
19. 后文举例“phone them up（英）和give them a call（美）”是表达的差异，选项G“Many expressions are also different in the two countries.”引出表达差异的话题，故选G。
20. 前文讲英语随时间变化，后文举加拿大法语与法国法语不同的例子，选项B“It can also happen to other languages like French.”说明其他语言也会发生类似变化，故选B。
【答案】
16. D 17. F 18. C 19. G 20. B
【知识点】
英语七选五阅读；英美语言差异
【点评】
本题考查英语阅读中句子的逻辑衔接能力，需结合上下文的语义、转折、举例等逻辑关系选择合适句子，是常见的英语阅读题型，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.6
