Filling in the blanks John : What’s up, Alice? How is your study here in Boston? Anything 1 London ? Alice: Hey, man! Everything is fine, for this term, I mean, this semester , especially having fun with all you guys in the class . John: Great! Alice: 2 differences , I notice that words are different between British and American English. We British live in flats with lifts. John: And we Americans live in apartments with elevators. Alice: We power the cars with petrol, but you Americans use gas . John: Exactly! And differences also 3 . Americans have dropped the letter “u”, and decided that “l-a-b-o-r labor ”, “c-o-l-o-r color” were just fine, without the “u” next to the “o”. Alice: But the more interesting part is the idioms. I hear Americans say “Don’t beat a dead horse !” to 4 “don’t waste time and energy in doing something”. The British , on the other hand, use “flog”. John: And, if we are 5 here in the United States, we have skeletons in the closet . In Great Britain, your skeletons would be hiding in a cupboard. Alice: That’s really interesting! Sometimes I am rather surprised by those differences. John: Yeah! I’m also shocked by them 6 .