帝京大学英語2013年第1問
(A) A remarkable variety of everyday objects come from the names of the People Who invented them or who are closely associated with them. We find them in such areas as clothing (cardigan, leotard, mackintosh), including hats (Stetson) and boots (wellingtons), food (garibaldi, pavlova, sandwich), flowers (begonia, dahlia, magnolia), musical (A)instruments (saxophone, sousaphone) and guns (colt, derringer, mauser). [ 1 ] People, especially (if they're famous enough), can have their surname turn into a general word. Film *buffs talk about a movie being Hitchcockian, and similar coinages are found in other areas of the arts, such as Dickensian, MozartianM and Turnerian. Language buffs who admire Henry Fowlers Dictionary of Modern Enghsh Usage have created [ 2 ] three adjectives to Characterize his approach- Fowlerian, Fowlerish and Fowiereseqe.
Science, in particular, recognizes achievements in this way. Think of all the names of *physical constants that come from scientists, such as ampere, Celsius, hertz, ohm and watt. Many terms in anatomy, (B)physiology and medicine reflect their discoveries, such as the Rolandic and Sylvian fissures in the brain or the Eustanchian tube between throat and ear. When diseases are person-named, they are usually [ 3 ]. So Meniere's disease becomes Meniere's, Parkinson's disease becomes Parkinsons, and Alzheimer's disease becomes Alzheimer's.
Derived uses soon follow, as the case of Alzheimer's shows. The disease was first described by the German *pathologist Alois Alzheimer inl 907, and the name was soon used as an adjective in such phrases as Alzheimer Patients and Alzheimer sufferers, sometimes with an's, sometimes (10)not. By the 1930s, the name of the disease was being abbreviated to Alzheimer,'s or (especially in the USA) Alzheimer, even in medical journals. Concern over the effect of the disease grew in the early 2000s, [ 4 ] that it became one of the few diseases to be identified by an initial letter: the big A. (The big C- Cancer - is [ 5 ].)
Surnames that become common nouns and (3)adjectives [ 6 ] belong to a real person. English literature has provided several examples of characters who have given their name to a general situation. What would it mean to call someone (11)a Scrooge, a Cinderella, a Girl Friday, a Romeo? In each case the situation described in the original book has been left behind, and the words are even sometimes written without the capital letters. Rather [ 7 ] usual is the use of two surnames together. A Jekyll and Hyde personality. David and Goliath situation. A Holmes and Watson relationship . There aren't many of these.
(From David Crystal, The Story of English in 100 Words, Profile Books, 2011)(B) The sandwich is 250 years old this weekend and residents in the English town of Sandwich, where the bread meal was first eaten, are celebrating their [ 8 ] history. According to the town's records the English nobleman *Earl, John Montagu first ordered a sandwich in 1762. It is reported he was playing cards with friends and wanted something he could eat without a knife and fork. He requested slices of beef between two pieces of bread, and so the sandwich was born. Montagu chose to live in Sandwich over another port town, Portsmouth. [ 9 ], we would be eating portsmouths today. It is perhaps a (D)coincidence Sandwich is just a few kilometers from the town of Ham.
(From "The Sandwich Celebrates 250th Anniversary" Breaking News English, August 6, 2012<http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1205/120513-sandwich.html>)
- 注)
- buff:熱狂的なファン
- physical constants:物理定数
- pathologist:病理学者
- Earl:伯爵
- 問1 文中の空欄[ 1 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. Creative
- イ. Healthy
- ウ. Ordinary
- エ. Potential
- 問2 文中の空欄[ 2 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. no better than
- イ. no bigger than
- ウ. no fewer than
- エ. no more than
- 問3 文中の空欄[ 3 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. accented
- イ. feared
- ウ. lengthened
- エ. shortened
- 問4 文中の空欄[ 4 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. except
- イ. in order
- ウ. now
- エ. so much so
- 問5 文中の空欄[ 5 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. another
- イ. other
- ウ. others
- エ. the other
- 問6 文中の空欄[ 6 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. always
- イ.do
- ウ. don't have to
- エ.on the other hand
- 問7 文中の空欄[ 7 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. as
- イ. less
- ウ. more
- エ. than
- 問8 文中の空欄[ 8 ]に入る最も適切な語句を下記から1つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
- ア. ancient
- イ. annual
- ウ. culinary
- エ. evolutionary
- 問9 文中の空欄[ 9 ]には「もし彼が後者を選んでいたならば」を表す英文が入る。下記の【語群】の語句を並べ替え、その日本文の意味を表す英文をつくる場合、空欄内で3番目に来る語は何か。答えを記号で答えなさい。ただし、【語群】には余分な語が2語入っている。また、文頭に来るべき語も小文字で始めている。
【語群】- ア. chose
- イ. chosen
- ウ. had
- エ. he
- オ. if
- カ. latter
- キ. the
- 問10 文中の下線部(10)のnotの内容を別の英語3語で表したい。その語句を解答欄に書きなさい。
- 問11 文中の下線部(11)の語句1つを用い、下記の英文を完成する場合、空欄( )にどの語句を入れるのが最も適切であるか。 記号で答えなさい。
Alice's father was a real ( ) and refused to pay her way through college, even though he could easily afford it.
- ア. Cinderella
- イ. Girl Friday
- ウ. Romeo
- エ. Scrooge
- 問12 文中の下線部(A)~(D)の語のアクセントが来る箇所を選び、番号で答えなさい。
- (A) instruments:1in-2stru-3ments
- (B) physiology:1phys-2i-3ol-4o-5gy
- (C) adjectives:1ad-2jec-3tives
- (D) coincidence:1co-2in-3ci-4dence