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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 Day at the Beach
Last year, Bob and his sister Jean went to Florida for their summer vacation with their parents. They visited Florida for one week. The weather was very nice. So everyone was really happy. ... レベル３ [英検４級]
Welcoming the New Year in America
The last night of the year is called New Year's Eve. It is the best time for a big party. In New York, many thousands of people go to Times Square, in the center of New York City, on New Year's Eve. They listen to music played by bands. They sometimes dance, and they look at the many beautiful lights around the square. ....レベル４ [英検３級]
Many, many years ago, all the people of the world lived in one place and spoke the same language. One day they went to live in a new land and started to make a new city there. ――レベル５ [青森県]
It is easy to understand the calendar we use today. It was not always so easy. People had to try for thousands of years before they knew how to put together days, weeks, months, and years. More than 2,000 years ago, scientists in Egypt made a calendar. There were 10 days in a week, three weeks in a month, and 12 months in a year. This calendar showed a ――レベル６――[桐朋高]
Automobiles, television and telephones are so much a part of American life today that most Americans under the age of forty or fifty cannot remember or imagine what――レベル７[灘高]
About fifteen hundred years ago the Japanese imported many aspects of Chinese culture: the writing system, political institutions, and perhaps most important, Buddhism. Buddhist priests were expected to eat only vegetables,...速読演習レベル８ ――[センター試験]より
Alaska's Great Dog Race
Every year in the state of Alaska in the United States, a special kind of race is held. This is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Using dogs to pull their sleds across the snow, people race about 1,100 miles between the cities of Anchorage and Nome. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Each new school year, parents wonder how much help they should give their children with homework. The obvious aim of assigning homework is to get the child to practice and strengthen academic skills. By devoting the proper time to homework, he or she stands a much better chance ...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]
By the end of last summer, Dr. David Hursh had noticed that his two sons, aged 8 and 12, were spending more time in front of the television set than doing just about anything else except sleep and eat....レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Breaking Habits
Susan had read all the health articles and knew she had to quit smoking. One day she did it -- cold turkey.
For several weeks she resisted all temptations to smoke. At first the cravings seemed close to overpowering. Gradually, however, they faded. Then one evening she met a friend for a drink after work. Susan arrived in a tense and miserable mood, having just had an argument with her boss. The friend had a cigarette burning in an ashtray. Almost without thinking, Susan took a puff. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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Tony was eight, and a bully. He picked on other children in the playground, spoilt their games and, sometimes hit them. He was a big boy, and the other children were afraid of him. His mother wouldn't believe me when I told her about Tony's behaviour. 'He's such a good boy at home,' she said......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]
Miraculous Soil
The people at the Rodale Institute experimental farm in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, claim to have discovered soil that not only grows excellent produce, but may even work toward reducing pollution. This magical dirt reportedly absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) ...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]
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]
