American English are the same language. 说明这是一种语言，那么这两国人在理解对方的语言方面没有什么困难，故A项正确。

　　Ⅳ.完形填空

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　If you are learning English because you're going to travel in England and wish to be__1.C__there, don't try to speak English perfectly，__2.A__ if you do so, no one will understand you. In London ninety－nine in every hundred people speak__3.B__English. You may say that__4.D__they don't speak English well themselves, they can__5.C__understand it when it is well spoken. They__6.B__when the speaker is English. But when the speaker is a__7.A__,_the better he speaks, the__8.C__it is to understand him.

　　No foreigner can__9.C__stress(重读)the syllables(音节)and make the tone(声调)__10.D__and fall in question and__11.B__ exactly as a__12.A__ does.__13.D__the first thing you have to do is to speak with a strong __14.C__accent, and speak broken, that is, English without any__15.A__. Then every English person you__16.D__will at once know you are a foreigner, and try to understand you and be ready to__17.B__you. He will not__18.A__you to be polite and use grammatical phrases. He will be__19.C__by his cleverness in making out(弄清) your__20.B__and being able to tell what you want to know.

　　文章大意：到了英国，不要把英语说得太好，否则没人会听懂你的话，也不会有人帮助你。

　　1．A.settled B．heard

C．understood D．known