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British and American English 必修 5 * 1. It doesn’t make much of a difference whether a teacher speaks British or American English. 老师是讲英国英语还是美国英语是没有多大区别的。 2. Americans use a flashlight, while for the British, it’s a torch. 美国人把手电筒称作flashlight,而英国人则叫torch。 重点句型 * 3. When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw made the famous remark that the British and the Americans are two nations divided by a common language, he was obviously thinking about the differences. 当爱尔兰作家乔治·萧伯纳讲那句名言——英国和美国是被同一种语言分开的两个民族时,他显然想到了它们的区别。 重点句型 * 4. 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. 但是这也导致了许多美国英语单词和结构传入英国英语,以至于现在有一些人相信英国英语将要消失。 重点句型 * 1. It doesn’t make much of a difference whether a teacher speaks British or American English. 老师是讲英国英语还是美国英语是没有多大区别的。 本句为主从复合句；it 为形式主语,whether 引导的从句为真正的主语。 | 
