What is standard English? Is it spoken in Britain, the US, C anada, Australia, India and New Zealand? _______________ ______________________ ___________(信不信由你，世界上没有什么标准英语). _________________________________________ _________________（很多人认为，电视里和收 音机里所说的就是标准英语） This is because in the early days of radio(早期的电台节目里), those who reported the news ______________（expect） to speak excellent English. However, even on TV and the radio __________________________ ___________.（你也会听出人们在说话在时的差异）
When people use words and expressions different from “standard language”, it is called a dialect. Am erican English has many dialects, e____________ the midwestern, southern, African American has many dialects. In some parts of the US, two people from ____________ (neighbour) towns can have a little different dialect. American English has so many dialects because people have come from all over the world.
Geography also________________ (有影响) in making dialects. Some people who live in the mountains of the eastern US speak with an older kind of English dialect. ______________________________________________________________________.( 当美国人从一个地方
