2019学年高二英语外研版必修五练习：Module1《BritishandAmericanEngli.pdfVIP

（ 100 120 ） I （ ， 40 ） （ 15 2 ， 30 ） ， （ ， A B C D） A When the seventeenth-century settlers brought the English Ianguage to America,they immediately and necessarily began to adapt （ ）it to their new environment.These changes were clear early and criticized by some people on both sides of the Atlantic.However,after the Revoluti on, America ns bega n to be proud of their own form of En glish.Noah Webster was the major early supporter of American meanings and spellings over British ones and published the earliest American dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language.During the years since Webster,language differences have continued to develop,proving （ ）the truth of George Bernard Shaw s ofte n-repeated words that the two n ati ons are divided by a com mon Ian guage. Like the American Ianguage,the earliest American literature （ ）copied English models.However,after the Revoluti on and the War of 1812,writers bega n to create a clear America n literature.However,in 1820,Sydney Smith asked the famous question Who reads an American book? Answering to this and similar taunts （ 9 ）with creative anger,American writers soon produced works that ple nty of British people read.Works by Wash ington Irvin g,Walt Whitma n,and Mark Twain had been acclaimed greatly in Britain by the end of the nineteenth century. Even as America n writers got respect in Brita in ‘British writers con ti nued to have great in flue nee in America.Charles Dicke ns went to America twice,in 1842 and 1867 1868.0ther major British writers w