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"Do you like English, Naoko?"
"Yes, I do. I study English for two hours every day." ...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]
Art on the Street
Last summer Hiroshi stayed with his friend Carlos in Los Angeles for two weeks. His first day there was a beautiful sunny day, so he and Carlos decided to go to the beach. After they put on their swimsuits and were ready to go, Carlos told Hiroshi that they were going to see some famous art ....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]
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７――[桐朋高]
We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so familiar that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one ...レベル８ [センター]
New Masks, New Selves
Have you ever worn a mask at a festival in a school play? Then you know how much fun it is to become, for a short time, a monster or a comic-book hero. With masks we can change our identities and pretend to be someone or something else. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Things were quiet in the bookstore facing Sydney Harbor. Lucy put down the magazine she had been reading. Suddenly, as she was about to pick up another one, she heard the raised voice of the salesclerk a few meters away: "Why don't you say something? I've already asked you three times!" How rude, thought Lucy. She looked up and saw a boy of her own age, slim and fair-haired with blue eyes. Lucy sensed something was wrong. She hesitated, wondering what was going on, then decided to lend a hand....レベル10 [センター]
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]
Two teams of scientists have independently discovered that clouds soak up a lot more radiation from the sun than once thought. If they are right, researchers may have to revamp the computer simulations used to predict global climate change. ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Attitudes Toward Sleep
Twenty years ago, Britain was far from being a 24-hour society. People often complained of the inconvenience of shops closing at 5:30 p.m. and not opening on Sundays. Visitors from other countries were often amazed that, by law, pubs had to close by 11 p.m. Few people worked after 5:30 p.m., and the average adult slept almost nine hours per night. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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I seldom ride long distance buses, but these past few days had been enough to convince me that there is little romance to them. As a traveler who usually finds himself in airports, I had become tired of this week's endless hours in dark, smelly buses, heading slowly between places that no other form of public...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]
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]
