根据课文回答问题（用原文回答）课文：Hundredsofyearsago,AmericansspokethesamekindofEnglishthattheBritishspoke.Whentheyputwordsonpaper,theyusedthesamevocabularyandspelling.ItistruethatAmericanEnglishan

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根据课文回答问题（用原文回答）课文： Hundreds of years ago, Americans spoke the same kind of English that the British spoke. When they put words on paper, they used the samevocabulary andspelling. It is true that American English and British English grew from the same roots, butgradually the language came to besomewhatdifferent. As time went on, Americans chose to use different words for the same thing. For example, instead ofpetrol, Americans said gas orgasoline. Americans told each other to walk on thesidewalk, but the British spoke about thepavement. When the British first arrived at the New Land, they felt very far from English speakers back home. In a way thisseparation gave Americans a new kind of English. They spoke only to each other and never knew that theiraccents were slowly changing. The accents of people back in England began to change too, but not in the same way. The change took many years, butfinally the accents became different from each other. 问题： 1.where did American and British English grow from? 2.How did the language come to be somewhat different? 3.Can you list five wodrs in American English which are not used in the same way as in British English?

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1，American and British English grow from the same roots. 2,Hundreds of years ago, Americans spoke the same kind of English that the British spoke. When they put words on paper, they used the same vocabulary and spelling. As time went on, Americans chose to use different words for the same thing. When the British first arrived at the New Land, they felt very far from English speakers back home. In a way this separation gave Americans a new kind of English. They spoke only to each other and never knew that their accents were slowly changing. The accents of people back in England began to change too, but not in the same way. The change took many years, but finally the accents became different from each other. 3, Ameircan English:gas or gasoline, the sidewalk, pajamas(睡衣),tire,fridge（冰箱） British English:petrol, the pavement,pajamas（睡衣),tyre,refrigerator(冰箱)