English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the

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问题     English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the global linguistic marketplace. One symptom of the impact of English is linguistic(1)______. English intrudes on all the languages that it(2)______. The technical terms "borrowing" and "loan words,"(3)_____ Calvet has indicated long before, are(4)_____, since speakers of a language who borrow words from another have no(5)_____ of returning anything. The transaction is purely(6)_____, and reflects the desirability of the product to the(7)_____. The only constraint on use is understandability—though states may (8)_____ ban certain foreign forms and implement measures to devise new indigenous words and expressions. Borrowing is a phenomenon that has (9)_____ users of other languages for more than a century. It has also generated an extensive(10)_____ on linguistic borrowing from English. British English (11)_____ a large number of words of American origin, often(12)_____ the source being noticed. Many languages borrow gastronomic and haute couture terms from French;(13)______, there is a carry-over from the use of English in many of the domains listed above into the(14)_____ of other languages. The English linguistic invasion has been so(15)_____ that some governments, representing both small linguistic communities, for instance Slovenia and(16)_____ ones, for instance France, have adopted measures to(17)_____ the tide and shore up their own languages,(18)_____ in the area of neologisms for technical concepts. Such measures, which are(19)_____ to be only partially successful, reflect an anxiety that essential cultural and linguistic values are(20)_____. [br] (4)

选项 A、convincing
B、revealing
C、misleading
D、rewarding

答案 C

解析 borrow和loan都隐含了将来“归还”的因素,空格后却提到“语言上的借词却无法归还”。因此使用这两个术语是有误导性的(misleading)。convincing“有说服力的”;revealing“显示真相”;rewarding“值得的”。
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