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"Are you doing your homework now, Ben?"
"Yes. I have a lot of homework today."
-- Question: What is Ben doing now? ...レベル１ [英検５級]
Emi, a junior high school student, is walking to school on Monday morning. She meets an American on the street.... 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]
The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale, a British woman, was born in Italy in 1820 and grew up in Britain. Her family was rich and had several large houses in different parts of Britain. Florence didn't go to school, but instead, her father was her teacher at home. ....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
Babe Ruth began to play baseball as a pitcher. He was a good pitcher, with a record of 82-44 over 20 years. But he became famous not as a pitcher but as a home-run hitter. In 1927 he hit 60 home runs, a one-year record which stood for over――レベル６[成蹊高]
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７
Nowadays people spend more time away from their jobs than ever before. Technological developments have steadily shortened working hours for a large part of the population, and the fact that people are living longer has also increased the amount of time spent in non-work settings. As a result, a large number of people have had to adjust to more leisure than they had expected, and this new-found leisure has created difficulties....レベル８ [センター]
The Dirty Sole Society
Paul Lucas can often be seen walking barefoot around the city of Mountain View, California. People are sometimes surprised to see him walking without any shoes or socks, but Lucas doesn't mind at all. He likes to walk barefoot, and so do the 640 other members of the Dirty Sole Society, the club that Lucas started. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Sarah Watson was a well-known doctor who often travelled about to treat patients. One day she was leaving London to see a very sick person in Denton in the north of England. At the station she took her seat in an empty part of the train for Denton, and told the conductor she would be glad to be...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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By the middle of the 19th century most locomotives had steam-powered brakes. Steam from the boiler operated a piston that forced curved brake shoes against the wheel. The steam worked very well on locomotives,...速読演習レベル14 [京産大]入試問題より
One man, it might be said, once fought an army. Ancient historians tell us that the man was old, over seventy. The army was that of the strongest power in the world -- Rome itself.
But the old man, a Greek, fought the Roman army to a standstill for nearly three years -- and almost won. The old man was ...レベル15 [青山学院大]
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]
Education
Thanks to good schools and a national passion for education, Sri Lanka has a high literacy rate for an Asian country. Estimates of the percentages of Sri Lankans who are literate range from 60% to 80%. ...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]
Ts'ai Lun, the inventor of paper, is a man whose name is probably unfamiliar to most readers. Considering the importance of his invention, the extent to which he has been ignored in the West is indeed surprising. There are major reference books which do not have even brief articles on Ts'ai Lun, and his name is seldom mentioned in standard, history textbooks....レベル19 [早稲田大]
WATCH OUT!!
Millions of cold viruses are now on their way to invade and destroy the cells of your nose and breathing passages. Let's look up your nose and see what happens... The cells inside your nose are always ready for trouble. They produce a gloppy fluid called mucus that traps viruses and other ...レベル20 [東京大学]
The degree to which males and females are socially unequal has varied, both cross-culturally and historically, from near equality to radical female disadvantage. Such variation is linked to the type of technology and economy (e.g., industrial, agrarian, horticultural, foraging) and to women's role in the economy. Women's status relative ...レベル20 [慶応義塾大学 環境情報学部]
