M: British English and American English are really about the same, aren’t they
W: I don’t think so. It seems that some of the spellings are different.
M: You’re right, Nina. Words like "theater" and "center" end in "re" in England instead of in "er" like we spell them. Can you think of any more examples
W: The word "color"
M: Good. Actually, many words which end in "or" in American English are spelled "our" in British English.
W: OK. There are some differences in pronunciation and meaning.
M: Anyway, we both agree that British English and American English are different. Right
W: Sure. I quite agree with you.
Passage 3
In the early 1920s Walter E. Disney began a cartoon company in Kansas City, Missouri, with fellow artist Ub Iwerks, but the company soon went bankrupt. Disney joined his brother Roy in Hollywood, California, in 1923 and established The Disney Brothers Studio (工作室). The studio produced a series of lovable short subjects called Alice in Cartoonland (1924-1927). In 1928 Walt Disney came up with the idea for Mickey Mouse, a good-natured, lovable mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations, Iwerks helped design the character, and Walt Disney Productions produced Plane Crazy (1928), a black-and-white silent film featuring the mouse.
Walt Disney achieved great commercial success when he added sound and dialogue to the Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie (1928). Disney introduced other popular characters in subsequent films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Minnie Mouse, Mickey's girlfriend; Goofy, an amiable dog; and the excitable
A. They liked cartoon film.
B. They liked to produce a series of lovable short subjects.
C. Walter E. Disney’s own cartoon company closed down.
D. They wanted to produce the cartoon film called Alice in Cartoonland.
Who won the World Cup 2006 football game What happened at the United Nations How did the critics like the new play (21) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (22) the detail. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spots to (23) the news.
Newspapers have one basic (24) , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (25) it.
Radio, telegraph, television, and (26) inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (27) , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (28) and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are (29) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Bes
A. somewhat
B. little
C. much
D. something
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