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"Cindy, do you like cycling?"
"Yes, I like it very much."
"Great, let's go cycling next Sunday."
-- Question: Does Cindy like cycling? ...レベル１ [英検５級]
----- Mike is visiting his friend, Fred. They are in Fred's room now.
Mike: What's this, Fred?
Fred: It's my new computer game. .... レベル２ [英検５級]
At Basketball Camp
Mary loves basketball. Last spring, she went to a basketball camp for girls. Many girls from different schools came to the camp. ... レベル３ [英検４級]
Last month Akira turned fifteen years old and had a birthday party. He received lots of presents. His sister gave him a shirt, and his grandmother gave him some money. ...レベル４ [英検３級]
What do you know about the sea? Most of you have played in it. You know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. You also know that it is dangerous when the weather is very bad. What else do you know about it?――レベル５
A "good Samaritan" is a person who helps others when they are in trouble. (The expression comes from a Bible story.) You often hear that there are few good Samaritans in America these days. Most people, when they see others in trouble, look the other way. They don't want to get hurt themselves.. ...レベル６[明治学院高]
Galileo Galilei was born in Italy more than four hundred years ago. Galileo's father sent him to school to make him a doctor. But Galileo grew more interested in science and he became a teacher of science. As a scientist he made many interesting and useful discoveries.――レベル７ [法政大二高]
If a woman decides to take a job outside the home, there are many important questions that are raised. Can she get...レベル８
For many teenagers, summer jobs are one of the necessary steps between childhood and maturity. It is during summer breaks that we first taste the satisfaction of work that translates into money.
The summer I was 18, I got a job at the post office. It seemed flattering to have a uniform and be entrusted with a leather bag containing important correspondence. ...レベル９
"No," said the workman, "they won't stay up." I'd asked him to put black-and-white floor tiles on a wall, but he insisted that they would soon fall off. Later I thought it over, decided there was no good reason why the tiles should come down, and put them up myself...レベル10 [センター]
Invitations to dinner are issued by written notes, printed cards or by telephone. If the invitation is by telephone, it is often wise to send a reminder by post. Printed invitations usually imply a relatively formal occasion but if 'black tie' is required it will be stated on the card. ...レベル11 [京産大]
In America workers were not always treated well. In the early days of the 1880's, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Europe came to the United States. They worked for very little pay. The owners of businesses and factories were able to get a lot of work for little money. They expected their employees to work 10 to 16 hours a day. Women and children worked for lower wages than men, and owners hired them for this reason. ... レベル12 [駒澤大]
Gestures
A gesture is any action that sends a visual signal to an onlooker. To become a gesture, an act has to be seen by someone else and has to communicate some piece of information. It can do this either because the gesturer deliberately sets out to send a signal --- as when he waves his hand --- or it can do it only incidentally ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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ランダムに１問だけ表示します。
Rakugo can be described as a popular comic art performed by one person. One must be able to have the skill of creating a stage, background, and atmosphere in the minds of the audience and also be able to play the parts of the characters that appear in the stories being told. Here is an example of such a rakugo....速読演習レベル14 [京産大]入試問題より
At the University of Kansas Art Museum, University researchers tested the effects of different colored walls on two groups of visitors to an exhibit of paintings. For the first group the room was...レベル15 [英検１級リスニング]
When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get a good score on a certain test, or even the ability to do well in school; these are at best only indicators of something larger, deeper, and far more important. By intelligence we mean a style of life, a way of behaving in various situations, and particularly in new, strange and perplexing situations. The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. ...レベル16 [関西大学]
The Morse Highway
Appropriate for a technology associated with radio operators on sinking ships, the idea of Morse code is said to have occurred to Samuel Morse while on board a ship crossing the Atlantic. The year was 1832. At the time, Morse was a painter and occasional inventor. But when another of the ship's passengers informed him of recent advances in electrical theory, Morse was suddenly taken with the idea of building an electric telegraph. ...レベル17 [英検準１級]
American thinking tends to move from the specific and small to the general and large. American progress from personal and local issues to the state and finally to the nation -- not the other way around. ...レベル18 [英検１級リスニング]
It has been estimated that 80 percent of all the information transmitted over the Internet comes from English-speaking countries. Much the largest English-speaking nation is the United States, which is home to some 64 percent of all the computers linked to the Internet. Other nations belonging to the English language's global empire, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and, of course, Britain, the mother country, account for a further 12.7 percent....レベル15 [早稲田大]
There's a funny story that anthropologists* tell to demonstrate how many different ways the same things can be named and classified, depending on the culture doing the naming. A group of anthropologists were giving a sort of IQ test ...レベル20 [東京大学]
If we look at the languages spoken in the world today, we notice wide differences in the use to which they are put. Most languages are the first language of some community and serve the everyday functions of that community perfectly well. On the other hand, some languages have wider functions than that of everyday communication and are used as official languages in the administration of whole nations. Yet other languages enjoy an international role. ...レベル20 [慶応義塾大学 総合政策学部]
