填空题
The desire to use language as a sign of national identity
is a very natural one, and in result language has played a (1) ______
prominent part in national moves. Men have often felt the (2) ______
need to cultivate a given language to show that they are
distinctive from another race whose hegemony they resent. (3) ______
At the time the United States split off from Britain, for (4) ______
example, there were proposals that independence should be
linguistically accepted by the use of a different language from (5) ______
those of Britain. There was even one proposal that Americans (6) ______
should adopt Hebrew. Others favoured the adoption of
Greek, though, as one man put it, things would certainly be
simpler for Americans if they stuck on to English and made (7) ______
the British learn Greek. At the end, as everyone knows, the (8) ______
two countries adopted the practical and satisfactory solution
of carrying with the same language as before. (9) ______
Since nearly two hundred years now, they have shown (10) ______
the world that political independence and national identity
can be complete without sacrificing the enormous mutual
advantages of a common language.