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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]
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]
A Tea Party Amy is 14 years old and lives in England. One Sunday morning she called her friends, Jane and Wendy, and said, "Let's have ... レベル３ [英検４級]
Technology -- Good or Bad?
Technology is everywhere. It's in our homes, cars, offices, hospitals, and many other places. Life is much easier today because of technology. ....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]
"*Mrs. Keller, I want to take *Helen away with me." *Annie said. "What?" said Mrs. Keller. "Helen must know how to listen to me," Annie explained. "But I can't teach it to her here in this house. When I try, she turns to you and away from me. Perhaps she will think that I am an enemy. Then we will lose everything." Mrs. Keller didn't say no. But she didn't say yes either...レベル７――[駒込高]
A current topic of debate is the amount of support and services we are willing to provide for handicapped people. Many people believe that society has become more caring over the ages. However, if we look back in time,...レベル８ [センター]
Car of the Century
In December 1999, an international group of car experts got together to choose the most important car o the 20th century. The car they agreed on was not the fastest or the most expensive of its time. It was the Model T, nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie," which was designed by Henry Ford. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Each year, thousands of children all over America enter hospitals for operations. Usually, it is for the removal of tonsils and adenoids, but the emotional preparation of the child is most important....レベル10 [英検１級リスニング]
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]
Archaeologists have long known that the Maya, who flourished between about A.D. 250 and 900, perfected the most complex writing system in the hemisphere, mastered mathematics and astrological calendars of astonishing accuracy, and built massive pyramids all over Central America, ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Whenever I see children of school age openly smoking in public I wonder whether they really understand what they are doing. Probably most do not. I at least know that my clinical practice in lung disease will not be short of patients for the rest of my working life. About 34 per cent of boys aged 15 smoke, and two-thirds this number of girls. Over the past 10 years there has been a small but welcome reduction in the number of boys who smoke at this age, but an increase in the number of girls. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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Imagine a beautiful, quiet place in the country, surrounded by trees, small lakes, and streams. Imagine no phone calls or television or interruptions of any kind, helpful people to do one's cooking and cleaning, and nothing to do all day but write or paint or compose music....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]
Fundamentally, there are just two major food illnesses in our society: eating too much and eating too little. The former is more prevalent, but both have steadily increased over the past few decades, and both are important because, when pushed to their extremes, they are killers. People who are very overweight may have various health problems, the most deadly of which begins...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]
