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次の(a)〜(f)に、与えられた文字で始まる最も適切な１語を入れよ。解答は与えられた文字を含む形で記せ。
Living in India reveals our expectations of the material world. I may think of myself as nonmaterialistic and disapprove of the Indian attachment to Western consumer goods, but I'm forced to realize that I take all too many of them for (a)(g_____) myself. As Westerners, our standard of living in India is far higher than that of most people around us. We tell house rental agents that we're just looking for something simple. But simplicity is relative. For we expect (b)(w_____) Americans think of as basic requirements: electricity, a telephone, e-mail, flush toilet, hot and cold water.
We are assured that all these things will be (c)(a_____). And in a way they are. But it takes five weeks for the telephone to be installed, sometimes it goes dead, and we can't use it to call abroad. There is hot water, but not in the kitchen. The electricity goes out for half an hour every evening, and sometimes for longer periods during the day. The voltage is high enough to work the e-mail modem only before 9 a.m. The municipal (d)(w_____) supply shrinks to a trickle in the dry season, and sometimes the pump to our backup well fails. When the supply is adequate, the toilet flushes. So, all these basic services do (e)(e_____), but they are unpredictable.
This is a healthy lesson. For one thing, it connects us with others. If one or another of these services isn't working, we share with neighbors or we do (f)(w_____) for a few hours, or for a day or two. They use our telephone if they need to; they bring us candles if we have no electricity.
――早稲田大学 第一文学部（２月17日実施）――2005年
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