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黑龙江省哈尔滨市双城二中2024-2025学年九年级上学期开学英语试卷
What season is it in October? If you ask people from UK, they will tell you it's "autumn". But if you go to US, you will find that people use "autumn" or "fall".
According to Dictionary. com, both words have been around for a long time. but neither of them was first to describe this season. During this season. crops would become ripe(成熟)and farmers would have a big harvest. So in Old English, this season was simply called "harvest".
Then, in the 1600s, more people left their farms and moved to cities. With fewer people farming the word "harvest" became less useful. English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people started calling it "the fall of the leaf", or "fall" for short.
But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word "autompne" and the Latin "autumnus", came to English. "Fall" as the word for this season disappeared slowly.
At the same time, people in UK were making their first trip to North America. They brought the words "fall" and "autumn" with them. That's why today Americans have two names for one season.
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