高崎経済大英語入試問題です。
高崎経済大英語入試問題です。
In trying to define “internationalization," we must first dispose of one serious
misconception. Many Japanese think it means the *westernization of Japanese life
styles and values. They(質問1) quite rightly see no need for this and feel that Japan has
already shown itself to be the most open country in the world to foreign influence.
In earlier times, Japanese drank deeply of Chinese culture, and in recent years
Western cultural influences have poured into the land. For example, 1)Japanese are
now familiar with Western music as with their own, and they probably have as
great a mastery of it as do most of the peoples of the West. Foreign cultural
influences, such as Chinese painting and Western literature, have greatly enriched
Japan and have certainly made it culturally as international as any nation in the
world.
Japan has also been fully open to foreign technology and as a result has now
become a world leader in science and technology. 2)The same is true of its political
and social institutions as well as its urban industrialized life style.
Although there is much that is distinctively Japanese in the way people live,
the general pattern of modern city life in Japan are basically much like those of life in any of the advanced democracies in the world.
If Japan were to lose its Japanese 3)identity, this would be a great loss not
only for it but for the whole world. Japan's cultural distinctiveness enriches
the world, and 4)no one should wish to see it disappear like some endangered
species of animal. That(質問2) certainly cannot be the meaning of the internationalization that people are talking about.
(質問1)このTheyは何を指しているのでしょうか。
(1)文の流れからすると、Many Japaneseでしょうか。これだと、意味が支離滅裂になってしまします。
多くの日本人はinternationalizationはWesternizationだと考えています。多くの日本人はこの必要性はないと見ています。
(2)life styles and values だとしてもしっくりきません。
(3)一般的な世界の人々なのでしょうか。
(質問2)
That はWesternizationをさしているのでしょうか。
よろしくお願いします。
補足
即ご回答いただきありがとうございます。 最上級構文においてof,inの使い分けのみに注目させられてきたと思うのですが、ふと「~の中で」と言うときになぜamongではだめなのかと尋ねられたときに自分は納得のいく理由が示せません。 amongは不可という明確な理由付けができるものはないでしょうかね?