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"What time do you go to bed, Steve?"
"I go to bed at 11:00."
-- Question: What time does Steve go to bed? ...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]
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]
Michael's Favorite Sports
Students in America do many different sports. Michael is a high school student in Minnesota. In winter, many students play ice hockey and basketball there. Michael is on his high school's hockey team. He and his friends practice it after school five days a week. But his team is not so strong. Last year his team played twenty games but won only three of them. Sometimes they even practice it on Sundays. ....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]
The cave people drew the things that were most important to them and interested them most. When you look at the history of pictures you will find that people have done that in every age. By the pictures they painted we can tell a lot about――レベル７[大阪教育大付平野高]
Many people think that they can write stories. They would like to be writers. They write stories and send them to magazines. When the magazines do not accept the stories, these people become angry. ...レベル８
Saving the Kiwi
Many people who hear the word "kiwi" will think first of the kiwi fruit. For New Zealanders, however, "kiwi" is the name of their national bird. The kiwi is an important symbol of the country and a very unusual bird. About the size of a chicken, the kiwi has wings but cannot fly, and it is active mainly at night. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Fifty years after his death, Sigmund Freud's thought is still very much alive, but the costly, time-consuming treatment he pioneered remains an accepted therapy only for the milder forms of mental and emotional distress. These days, the once...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]
When Columbia's Galeras Volcano erupted on January 14, 1993, six volcanologists and three tourists lost their lives in a hail of ash, poisonous gases and glowing blocks of lava. Such surprise attacks have killed field volcanologists before and are considered a largely...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Ozone Depletion The primary cause of the hole in the Earth's protective ozone layer is a group of man-made chemicals used in refrigerators, air conditioners and plastic foams. The chlorine released when these compounds decompose destroys ozone, letting dangerous ultraviolet light from the...レベル13 [英検１級リスニング]
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'Other countries have a climate; in England we have weather.' This statement, often made by Englishmen to describe the ( (a) ) meteorological conditions of their country, is both revealing and true. It is revealing because in it we see the Englishman insisting that what happens in England is not the same as what happens elsewhere; its truth can be ascertained by any foreigner who stays in the country for longer than a few days....レベル14 [京都産業大]
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]
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]
