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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]
----- 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 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]
State of Oregon
The United States is a very large country. It has fifty states. The largest state is Alaska. The second largest state is Texas. And the third largest state is California. California is about the same size as Japan, but Japan has a larger population than California. ....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
Once there was a princess. She was called Ann. The Princess Ann loved hiding. She hid in the garden and her friends came and found her. ...速読演習レベル６[海城高]の入試問題から
Rainforests are perhaps the most important places on Earth. And yet we destroy thousands of square kilometers every year. In 1950, rainforests covered fifteen percent of the Earth's land. We have already destroyed half of these. Will there be any rainforests in the year 2020? No one knows the answer to that question....レベル７――[御茶ﾉ水女子大学付属高等学校]
Do animals play? Certainly, many animals, especially the young, engage in behavior that seems like play. But why do they play? This question is difficult to answer, even for experts. For one thing, there are considerable...レベル８ [センター]
The Elgin Marbles
The British Museum in London was founded in 1753. It has a huge collection of works of art from all over the world. The collection covers 2 million years of human history. Many people, however, come to the British Museum just to see the Elgin Marbles, a group of Greek sculptures. The sculptures are made of beautiful white stone and are 2,400 years old. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we may take the fact of friendship for granted, we often don't clearly understand how we make friends. While we get on well with a number of people, we are usually friends with only a very few …… for example,...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]
There is no issue of our times more challenging or more difficult to solve than the global warming caused by greenhouse gasses, unless it is the explosive, exponential growth of the world's human population. The world has been warming for over one hundred years and may ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Every year there are about 100,000 square kilometers of tropical rain forest being destroyed. In fact, at the present rate of destruction there may be little left of tropical rain forests by the year 2000. Scientists have warned us for a long time about this, but only recently are people beginning to care. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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Japanese politicians and government administrators are lamenting the country's declining birthrate, and they are especially concerned about the effect of this decline on the younger generation's ability to finance social security.....速読演習レベル14 [京産大]入試問題より
It is possible that over the last hundred years, and especially the last forty, we may have already created a society that demands more brain power than most people are able to give. One of the major reasons, in fact, that our political system is breaking down, and that our society is coming apart, may be that we are expecting from people a level of abstract thinking never before required in the history of human beings. And it is only going to get worse...レベル15 [東京女子大]
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]
The Chamorro Language
Guam is known around the world as a place for relaxing at luxury hotels, swimming in the Pacific surf, and getting a tan on the beach. Indeed, much of one side of the island ...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]
I was never quite sure if blowing on food to cool it off was an inborn ability, inherited through the genes, or something that had to be learned. It is done so commonly all over the world that one is tempted to imagine how the habit originated. ....レベル19 [筑波大]
There's a funny story that anthropologists* tell to demonstrate how many different ways the same things can be named and classified, depending on the culture doing the naming. A group of anthropologists were giving a sort of IQ test ...レベル20 [東京大学]
If we look at the languages spoken in the world today, we notice wide differences in the use to which they are put. Most languages are the first language of some community and serve the everyday functions of that community perfectly well. On the other hand, some languages have wider functions than that of everyday communication and are used as official languages in the administration of whole nations. Yet other languages enjoy an international role. ...レベル20 [慶応義塾大学 総合政策学部]
