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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]
----- 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]
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]
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]
How easily a bird flies from one tree to another! How difficult it was for men to learn how to fly! The story of the coming of the airplane is a story of difficulties and death.
Men have wanted to fly for more than two thousand years. There is an ――レベル７[立教大]
When I think of my grandfather, the first thing that comes to mind is how peaceful he always seemed to be. He would sit in our living room for hours gently petting our dog, and in all the years that I knew him I never saw him get angry. According to........レベル８
The store was called 'The Rock Shop'. It was a small store, but many people went there to buy rocks and precious stones. Some people bought them for their scientific interest; others bought them just because of their beauty.
Anna went to 'The Rock Shop' to buy a present for her husband, Peter. Peter was interested in science and Anna wanted to give him a beautiful rock for his birthday. ...レベル９
Rediscovering Manhattan There was a time when I thought I knew Manhattan. I'd visited all the main attractions and dozens of other lesser-known museums, parks, and historic spots described in the better guidebooks...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]
Frequently "heading" the ball in soccer lowers players' IQs and impairs their ability to concentrate, suggests a new study. Soccer is relatively safe for most players, says psychologist Adrienne Witol of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, but those who ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Sources of Intelligence
Some social scientists are starting to take a wider view of intelligence than as simple academic ability. They are trying to redefine it in terms of what it takes to lead a successful and happy life. This change of approach is based on recent studies like one made of Harvard University students who graduated in the 1940s. In this study it was found that students with ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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The homes into which most babies are born are places where people talk. They will talk about the baby and a great many other things as well, and before long---long before they expect any response---they will talk to the baby. Among the other noises that reach its ears are likely to be television programmes,...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]
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]
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]
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]
