Unit 2 《English around the World》 任务型阅读训练（人教版必修1）.docVIP

任务型阅读 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入一个恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。 Passage 1 Although the US is a large country with many people，the language is almost the same wherever one goes.There are two reasons for this. One is that people move around a great deal in the US.A man may grow up in one part of the country，go to college in another part，find work in another place，and marry a girl from still another part of the country.Railroads，airplanes，cars and highways make it easy to travel in America. The second important reason is public communication.Movies，radio and television all use a standard form of speech，and almost everyone in the US hears it. However，there are some words and expressions more common in one part of the country than in others.People in Boston send their dirty clothes to the“cleanser’s” instead of the “cleaner’s”.In some parts of the west，a soft drink is called “tonic” instead of “soda”. The southern part of the US is probably the region with the most individual speech.Southern pronunciation is different from that in the rest of the country.Southerners talk slowly and often do not pronounce the letter “r” after vowels (元音) and change the /ng/ sound to /n/，so that “running” sounds like“runnin”and“sleeping” like“sleepin”. In the southern mountains，there have not been any new settlers from other countries for two hundred years.The hill people have a way of speaking that is like the English spoken when their forefathers (祖先) left England to settle in the US centuries ago.Many songs they sing today are those sung long ago in England. Title Americans’ 1. Main 2 ◆The language is almost the same wherever one goes. Reasons ◆The first one is to 3. a great deal. ◆The second one is public 4. . 5. ◆There are some different words and expressions in different parts. Southerners ◆They have individual 6. . ◆Their 7. is different from others’. ◆They are talking 8. with others. Reasons ◆No new 9. have been there. ◆They st