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阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

October usually marks the 1.(begin) of a new season, but what you call that season depends 2.where you are and whom you are.

In the UK, people will tell you it's "autumn". However, you will find people use both "fall" and "autumn" interchangeably when 3.(mention) this time of year in the US. Why does it have to be so 4.(confuse)?

According to Dictionary.com, "fall" isn't a modern nickname(昵称)5. followed. In Old English the season 6.(call) "harvest" meaning that farmers would have a big harvest in this season. Then, in 7.1600s, without farming, the term "harvest" 8.(gradual) became less useful to city dwellers, so English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people called 9."the fall of the leaf", or "fall" for short.

But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word "autompne", came to England. It became more popular and took the place of "fall" as the word for the season.

At the same time, British people were making their trips to North America, bringing the words "fall" and "autumn" with them. That's 10. today's Americans have two names for one season.

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