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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]
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 Present for Mr. Brown Emily is 14 years old. Her best friend is Cindy. They both joined their school's music club last year. They enjoy singing and playing the guitar together every day. ... レベル３ [英検４級]
There are some people who do not eat any meat. We call them "vegetarian," because they eat mainly vegetables. ....レベル４ [英検３級]
Are you interested in dinosaurs? Have you ever seen the skeletons of them in a museum? Do you know what they ate and how they lived? Dinosaurs don't live now. Where did they go?―― ... レベル５――[都立工業･航空高専]
"What's wrong with you, Ken?" Sam said to his friend. "I think I need Mary Ann's ideas. I have a problem now and I must tell someone. I can't do my schoolwork. I can't sleep at night," said Ken.――レベル６
My neighbor's children love playing hide-and-seek as all children do, but no one thought that a game they played would be reported in the newspaper.――レベル７[土佐高]
Each year 200 million tons of household trash is collected in the USA. This means that each person produces about 1,000 kilograms of garbage every year. The average European produces about 300 kilograms of household trash annually. The amount of waste produced around the world is growing each year because the richer a country becomes, the more trash it produces.......レベル８
An Equal Chance
Over 120 million children in developing countries do not attend school. Most of these are girls. Moreover, almost two-thirds of the 875 million adults worldwide who are unable to read or write are female. One of the main reasons is that it ...レベル９[英検準２級]
The Airport at Katmandu Few international airports demand more skill from pilots than the airport outside the Nepalese capital of...レベル10 [英検１級リスニング]
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]
For three days Eric Cornell kept rechecking his computer, not quite willing to believe what his eyes and instruments were telling him. There on the screen was a dense knot of something that had appeared in a cloud of rubidium atoms. Finally, Cornell had to acknowledge that it ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
News Reporting in the U.S.
Several years ago, a researcher compared the number of television reports dealing with Japan shown on U.S. television with the number of reports dealing with the United States shown on Japanese television. The results were remarkable. Over a seven-month period in 1992-93 there were 1,121 reports about the U.S. on Japanese TV, but only 92 about Japan in the U.S. ... 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。
I seldom ride long distance buses, but these past few days had been enough to convince me that there is little romance to them. As a traveler who usually finds himself in airports, I had become tired of this week's endless hours in dark, smelly buses, heading slowly between places that no other form of public...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]
Change in the Family
In virtually all preindustrial societies the son characteristically saw his father working at all times of the day and all seasons of the year. When the son no longer sees that, what happens? Alexander Mitscherlich, a German psychologist, has developed a metaphor : a hole appears in the son's psyche. ...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]
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]
