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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]
Julie's Surprise Julie is 14 years old. She lives in Hawaii with her parents and her grandfather. Every morning they all have breakfast together.
One Saturday morning, he grandfather did not eat breakfast with ... レベル３ [英検４級]
Tom is a high school student in San Francisco. His sister, Emily, married a Japanese businessman two years ago. She lives in Tokyo. Last summer she invited Tom to Tokyo for two weeks. ....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]
Do you know when and where ice cream got its start? It's an international favorite with a long and interesting history. The earliest ices were eaten in China many years ago. ――レベル６ [甲陽学院高]
The longest bicycle race in the history of Sweden was held in 1951. A man named Gustaf Hakansson won it. Perhaps people in other parts of the world are not interested in these facts until it is known that he was 66 years old when he won the ――レベル７[桐朋高]
Why do we talk about the weather to strangers? This is an interesting question. It's probably because the weather is a subject we can talk about quite safely. It's a way of reaching agreement....レベル８
Diet and the Aging Process
Scientists are continually looking for ways to help us live longer. Some say that the length of our life is decided mainly by our genes. But other scientists are studying diet. In the past few years, studies have shown that giving mice less food improves their health. When scientists gave mice half as much food as they normally eat, the mice lived as much as 50% longer. In other studies, rats that ate less food had more energy and were more active. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Cats were first domesticated about four thousand years ago by Egyptians. This is known from their ancient works of art. Cats are perhaps the easiest household pets, and yet because they are independent, mostly undemanding, largely self-sufficient and good survivors, some owners tend to be more casual and irresponsible about them than any other animal...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]
The phone rings at work."Hi, this is Philip Jones," a man says pleasantly. "I'm returning your call." Who? My call? Your brain spins. As you thank him for calling back, you hope it will dawn on you who Philip Jones is and why on earth you wanted to talk to him. ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Protecting the Bluefin
There are many kinds of tuna, but the biggest and most magnificent among them is the bluefin tuna. The largest members of the species can live for 40 years, grow to 3 meters in length, and weigh up to 400 kilograms. The bluefin is found all across the globe, but the most valuable kind, the southern bluefin, usually swims in the colder areas of the seas in the southern hemisphere. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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One could begin American history with Christopher Columbus. But America was settled several thousand years before 1492, by primitive Asiatic peoples who moved across the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska. Then they spread slowly over the two continents. The descendants of these immigrants were ...速読演習レベル14 [京産大]入試問題より
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]
The Sound of Too Much Music
With its many tournaments and ruthless competition for prizes, classical music sometimes seems intent on becoming more like a sport than an art form. Pianists, for instance, have been able to choose from a host of competitions this month. ...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]
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]
