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C2 文法・語彙テスト

C2言語と意味38分

テスト1：言葉の一生

Test 1: The life of words

言葉の意味がどのように変わるかをテーマにした、熟達レベルの総合テストです。微妙なコロケーション、倒置、決まった言い回し、派生語を扱います。

この C2 の文法・語彙テストは、細かなコロケーション、フォーマルな構造、語形成を組み合わせています。どの文も、言葉、意味、言語の変化についての内容です。パート1では最も適切な選択肢を選び、パート2では各空所に合う語を入れ、パート3では与えられた語から新しい語を作ります。

練習問題 1/3

パート1：選択式の空所補充

それぞれの文に最もよく合う語または語句を選びましょう。

  1. The word nice once meant foolish, a shift that shows how readily words _____ new associations, good or bad.

  2. Purists lament the arrival of loanwords, seemingly _____ of the fact that English has grown largely by borrowing.

  3. Slang that is all the _____ among teenagers one year can sound hopelessly dated the next.

  4. In admitting such words, editors lay themselves _____ to the charge that they are legitimising careless usage.

  5. Not until the printing press arrived _____ to be standardised.

  6. The poet’s phrase was so apt that it has passed _____ the language as a proverb.

  7. Some words resist translation: they are so bound _____ the culture that coined them that any equivalent feels thin.

  8. Whether language shapes thought remains a _____ point among linguists, though few doubt that it influences it.

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練習問題 2/3

パート2：自由記述の空所補充

各空所に入る語を入力してください。明らかに短い句が必要な問題以外は、1 語で書いてください。

  1. Little the early lexicographers realise how far their work would shape ideas of correct usage.

  2. Words, people, have histories that explain much of their present behaviour.

  3. It is no means certain that the word will survive another decade.

  4. The term, originally coined in jest, has since been adopted by serious scholars.

  5. Whatever its other merits, the 1926 report little to settle the matter.

  6. Slang thrives the margins of society, where inventiveness is a way of belonging.

  7. Not the manuscript was discovered did scholars grasp the true origin of the word.

  8. it not been for a chance remark, the etymology might never have come to light.

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練習問題 3/3

パート3：語形成

それぞれの文の最後にある大文字の語を使って、空所に合う語を作りましょう。1語を入力してください。

  1. The of the word salary from a Latin term connected with salt is often repeated, though it is disputed. (DERIVE)

  2. His account of the committee’s debates was refreshingly about the usual academic pieties. (REVERE)

  3. Overuse has led to a gradual of the word’s force. (DILUTE)

  4. The author’s for obscure vocabulary irritated his critics. (FOND)

  5. It is to expect a single dictionary to record every word in use. (REAL)

  6. Her essay explores the between spoken and written registers. (DISTINCT)

  7. The proposal to abolish the apostrophe was met with widespread among readers, who flooded the newspaper with angry letters. (APPROVE)

  8. Without their cultural background, many idioms are simply to a learner. (COMPREHEND)

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