填空题

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately
have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad 41. ______
influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become of 42. ______
a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect 43. ______
in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink 44. ______
because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the most 45. ______
completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening
to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate
because our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven dour language 46. ______
makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the
process is irreversible. Modern English, especially written English, 47. ______
is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be
avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets
rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and think clearly is a 48. ______
necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight
against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning 49. ______
of professional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope 50. ______
by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have become clearer.