1. search engines like ................ , offer a free translating service to help you quickly look up troublesome American words and phrases.

amazon

Google

souq

jumia

2. The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the ............... century.

20th

17th

21th

5th

3. English thus predominated in the colonies even by the ................. of the 17th century.

middle

end

first

half

4. a fairly uniform American English became common after the mid .............. century.

17th

18th

15th

20th

5. The American English, as we know and use today, was the accent originally spoken in .............. .

1652

1458

1607

1589

6. the US declared its independence in ................ .

1776

1854

1789

1799