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次の英文を読んで、 設問に答えなさい。
Throughout its history the English language has always been (1)hospitable to
words from other (2)tongues. While it is doubtless true to say that all forms (of
human speech have to some extent borrowed from outside models there are
grounds for thinking that English is more than usually open to foreign influence
as compared with other (3)great languages The French, indeed, have set up an
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organization by which they hope to check or that all events regulate the flooding of
foreign words into their vocabulary, but this would probably seem a strange idea to
most English speakers, who seem to believe in a species of linguistic* free trade
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and argue that if a term of foreign origin is useful it should be put to work at once
10 regardless ( X ) its parentage*.
In this we are helped by the nature of the language itself which very
conveniently allows us to use a word (as very noun
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adjective (Y) any change
of form, unlike the other major European languages. In this way the B.B.C.* has
borrowed the French noun compère* as both noun and verby and has even been
15 known to apply this masculine word to a woman, thereby unconsciously
illustrating another reason why foreign expressions soon make themselves (5)at
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home in English, namely the English dislike of analysis.
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A word used by an English speaker is considered by him as more or less
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incapable of further sub-division, and (6) as long as it serves his purpose he has
o little desire to know the why of its inner structure. This may be somewhat annoying
to the purist but the practical result is that English is able to adopt the most vague
expressions from foreign languages and set them to work with a minimum of fuss.

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(注) linguistic : 言語上の
parentage 起源
compère 司会者 (本来はフランス語の男性名詞)
B.B.C. 英国放送協会
A. 次の aj から本文の内容と一致するものを4つ選びなさい。
英国が外国語の影響を強く受けるようになったのは最近である。
b. フランスは言語について鎖国主義ないし管理貿易の立場をとってきた。
c. ヨーロッパ大陸の言語は、それぞれ独自性を保とうとしている。
d. 外来語の流入を認めないという考えは、イギリス人にとって不可解である。
e. イギリス人は外来語がそう多くなければ、容認すべきだと考えている
f. イギリス人は実用を重んじ、 言葉のこまかな成り立ちを気にしない。
\. フランス語では男性名詞は女性には使えないが、英語ではそのような区別は
ない。
h. フランス語では語形を変えないで、いくつもの品詞に転用できる。
外来語を受けつけず、自国語の使用だけを主張するイギリス人は少なくない。
外国起源のあいまいな表現であっても、 英語の中で使用されると明確な用法
となることが多い。
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B. 下線部(1), (4), (5) の意味に最も近いものを、 それぞれ a~dから1つ選びなさい。
(1) hospitable
a. convenient
c. humble
(4) at all events
a. as it happens
c. in any case
(5) at home
a. comfortable
b. engaged
d. welcoming
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b. if it should happen
d. not at all
b. in the country
c. prepared to receive visitors d. well-informed