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  3. English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the global linguistic marketplace. One symptom of the im

English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the global linguistic marketplace. One symptom of the im

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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)_____.
(5)
选项 A、reason
B、idea
C、result
D、intention
答案D
解析 此处意为“说某种语言的人从另外一门语言借词过来是没有 返还任何东西的”，因此空格处应填入“意向”含义的词，intention是最佳选择。
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