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"Do you have a baseball bat, Tom?"
"Yes, I do. I have an old one."
-- Question: Does Tom have an old baseball bat? ...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]
A Christmas Present Henry is eight years old. His house is near a small river. After school he and his brother Tom like to play at the river. One day ... レベル３ [英検４級]
June 15, 1994
Dear Ellen,
How's it going? Everything is fine here in Japan....レベル４ [英検３級]
What do you know about the sea? Most of you have played in it. You know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. You also know that it is dangerous when the weather is very bad. What else do you know about it?――レベル５
Much of the land of the Netherlands is as low as the sea. Some of the land is even lower than the sea. The word Netherlands means "Lowlands". The Dutch people――レベル６[筑波大付駒場高]
The other day, I was at a public library looking for some interesting books. A small book in English caught my attention. It was a book of English proverbs. I took it from the shelf and began to read the introduction: a proverb is a short, popular saying that teaches a common truth or ……――レベル７
In many parts of the world, the influence of television is a matter of increasing concern. For years, critics of television have concentrated on the issue of program content -- particularly violence -- as it affects viewers. The problem seems especially serious with regard to younger children....レベル８ [センター]
Pedersen's Journey
Helge Pedersen, who is from Norway, spent 1973 as an exchange student at a high school in Los Angeles. While he was there, he met many other exchange students from different countries around the world. He became interested in what their countries were like and decided that he would like to visit them all someday. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
People have trouble deciding what I am. Mexicans mistake me for Mexican; in Chinese restaurants I am usually given a menu written in Chinese; and once a Japanese boy asked me if I was Korean...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]
Already developed in a rudimentary form, "virtual reality" moves technology beyond sights and sounds to touch and even smell. Wearing special goggles that project images onto users' eyes, gloves and even body suits embedded with computer chips that sense users' motions and ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
The Survival of the Monarch Butterfly
Each February, large numbers of monarch butterflies come to California. They come to mate and to escape the winter cold. Recently, however, environmental changes have severely reduced the population of these beautiful orange-and-black butterflies. ... 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
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]
Dialing the Future
Phones are pretty handy things just the way they are. But when phones get hooked up to computers, it's no exaggeration to describe the new potential as a world communications revolution.
Internationally, telephone systems are now in the midst of that change and it is fast gathering speed. ...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]
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]
