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"Dave, what is your favorite food?"
"I like hamburgers."
-- Question: Does Dave like hamburgers? ...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]
Julie's Surprise Julie is 14 years old. She lives in Hawaii with her parents and her grandfather. Every morning they all have breakfast together.
One Saturday morning, he grandfather did not eat breakfast with ... レベル３ [英検４級]
Art on the Street
Last summer Hiroshi stayed with his friend Carlos in Los Angeles for two weeks. His first day there was a beautiful sunny day, so he and Carlos decided to go to the beach. After they put on their swimsuits and were ready to go, Carlos told Hiroshi that they were going to see some famous art ....レベル４ [英検３級]
Because plants cannot move or talk, most people think they have no feelings, they think they cannot receive signals from outside. But a plant knows about the sun and about gravity. If you put a plant in a dark corner, in a few hours it will bow towards the light. ――レベル５
When I was a little girl about seventy years ago, I lived in Chicago with my mother, father and little brother Bob. We were very happy because our apartment had a bathroom. Most other families in our building had to use one bathroom together.――レベル６ [青山学院大高等部]
The longest bicycle race in the history of Sweden was held in 1951. A man named Gustaf Hakansson won it. Perhaps people in other parts of the world are not interested in these facts until it is known that he was 66 years old when he won the ――レベル７[桐朋高]
When I think of my grandfather, the first thing that comes to mind is how peaceful he always seemed to be. He would sit in our living room for hours gently petting our dog, and in all the years that I knew him I never saw him get angry. According to........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
"When are you going back to Brazil?" I looked down at the ground, trying to stop the tears. I didn't want to cry in front of those two girls. Why did they have to say things like that? "If only I could go back to Brazil," ...レベル10 [センター]
Cigarettes seem to be going out of style with teens. A survey done by the University of Michigan shows a sharp drop in the number of teenagers who say they smoke cigarettes. ...レベル11 [帝塚山大]
There is clear evidence of functional differences in learning between the young and the old. It is said that no mathematicians has ever had an original mathematical inspiration after the age of 25. ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Standing Up for Children
Soccer is the favorite sport of many children around the world. As a result, there is a huge demand for new soccer balls. To meet this demand, workers in countries, like Pakistan are forced to work long hours in dark factories, stitching the balls together by hand. Low pay and dangerous working conditions are common, ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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One could begin American history with Christopher Columbus. But America was settled several thousand years before 1492, by primitive Asiatic peoples who moved across the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska. Then they spread slowly over the two continents. The descendants of these immigrants were ...速読演習レベル14 [京産大]入試問題より
A normal English family, especially when it has just moved into a new district, wants to be friendly with those living in the same area. However, it often hesitates because there is a fear that some neighbors might be too friendly and make such a habit of calling that the family could not call their home their own. It is not surprising, therefore, that quite nice people wait for a proper invitation, paying attention t...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]
Kids Need Computers!
In the area of education and technology, U.S. families are divided into two groups -- those where children have access to computers and those where they don't. In homes where income is less than $20,000, just 15% of children ...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]
Where was the first city? Fifty years ago, archaeologists would have pointed to Mesopotamia, the land between the Rivers Tigiris and Euphrates. Here, it was thought, was the 'cradle of civilization,' the area that produced the great cities of Ur and Babylon. This surely was the place where urban life began and from where the idea of the city spread to the rest of Asia and to Europe...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]
