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次の英文を読んで, 空所 (16)~(20) に最もよく当てはまるものを、それぞれ下の 4の中か
ら1つずつ選び, 番号で答えなさい。
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ogn inany people are interested in knowing how lang1age first began, it is impossible to know
where or how this happened. However, we do knowa lot about languages: the language ol 0aay
and also the language of ( 16 ) times.
Ihere are probably about 3,000 languages in the world todav.m Chinese is the language with the
most speakers in the world but some of the languages of Africa have ( 17 ) than one nunared
Speakers. Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English
of five hundred years ago.
Some languages become more important and other languages become
less important or even ( 18 ) out completely. About 1,000 years ago, the most important languages
of Europe were
Latin and
Greek.
Ifa language has a large number of speakers, or if it is very old, there may be differences in the
language ( 19 ) it is spoken in different places.
Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese is spoken for thousands of years by many
millions of speakers. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so ( 20 ) that speakers of
Chinese from some parts of China cannot understand speakers from other parts of China.
*Latin ラテン語
That is, a language may have several
dialects.
*Greek ギリシャ語
2. quicker
* That is すなわち
* dialect方言
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(17)
3. before
4.earlier
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1. worse
2. less
3. better
4. more isl vatsA or
(18)
1. miss
2. take
3. die
4. find
(19)
1. because
2. until
3. or
4. how
(20)
1. many
2. small
3. great
4. nice
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