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"Do you have a baseball bat, Tom?"
"Yes, I do. I have an old one."
-- Question: Does Tom have an old baseball bat? ...レベル１ [英検５級]
----- On Sunday afternoon, Kate goes to a fast-food restaurant for lunch.
Clerk: Hello. Can I help you? .... レベル２ [英検５級]
One day John put on old clothes and went to a big dinner party at Mr. Green's house. When he came in, the people at the party looked at him, but they gave him no seat and no food. So John went home, put on his best clothes,――レベル３
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
Skateboarding first started in America in the late 1960's. It was invented by surfers who wanted a way to practice their sport without going into the sea. By putting roller-skate wheels on small surfboards they could practice almost the same movements they had to make while surfing.――レベル７
The world's oceans cover a little more than seven-tenth of the earth's surface. Until the explosion of air passenger...レベル８
A Carnation for Mother
Mother's Day first became an official holiday in 1914 in the United States. The person who started Mother's Day was a woman named Anna Jarvis. Jarvis's mother had spent her life helping families without fathers. After her mother died in 1905, ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Mrs. Tortino lived in an old Victorian house crowded all around by tall, new buildings, fifteen, twenty stories high. The house had been her family's for many years, and Mrs. Tortino was determined never to leave it...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]
In business, a letter is used to communicate with someone outside the company. When you wish to write to someone within your own company, you send a memorandum. Memos are used to communicate with other employees, regardless of where the employees may be located -- whether in the same...レベル12 [英検１級リスニング]
Deserts
A desert is generally thought of as a hot, barren region that receives little rainfall. Rainfall is scarce in all desert regions, but deserts are not barren wastelands. Deserts have a wide variety of land formations and soil substances, and most of them have at least one permanent stream. Deserts cannot support the abundant plant and animal life found in humid climates. But many kinds of plants and animals thrive in deserts. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
◇レベル14 このレベルの長文のリストを表示します。
ランダムに１問だけ表示します。
The Reverend Kitagawa, a Japan-born minister, writes of attending a going-away party for two young Nisei drafted into the U.S. Army in the fall of 1940 which was attended by all the people in the Japanese-American community. Kitagawa recalls an elderly Issei speaking at the party....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]
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]
By now it should be clear that the United Nations has been held back not just by the cold war and the Soviet veto. The task of creating an effective world organization is in itself extremely difficult and frustrating whatever the political climate. During the post-cold war period, after two or ...レベル20 [慶応義塾大学 法学部]
