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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]
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]
Vegetarians ---- People Who Eat Mainly Vegetables
Are you interested in dinosaurs? Have you ever seen the skeletons of them in a museum? Do you know what they ate and how they lived? Dinosaurs don't live now. Where did they go?―― ... レベル５――[都立工業･航空高専]
Dinosaurs lived on earth for more than 140 million years. Then, about 65 million years ago, they died out. All the dinosaurs died almost at the same time! Why? No one knows. There were no human beings around to see that. Scientists can only use second-hand evidence to find out what happened. They sometimes find bones and eggs of dinosaurs under the ground ――レベル６
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]
Many composers have been inspired by the sounds of nature. Antonio Vivaldi, who lived in Italy three hundred years ago wrote a composition for orchestra called The Four Seasons. We can hear the cuckoo in the music devoted to spring. There are the humming of insects and...レベル８
An Animal's Best Friend
The World's largest population of wild cheetahs lives in the African country of Namibia. Over 90 percent of these cheetahs, however, live on land owned by farmers. Normally, the hunting ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Each year, thousands of children all over America enter hospitals for operations. Usually, it is for the removal of tonsils and adenoids, but the emotional preparation of the child is most important....レベル10 [英検１級リスニング]
Invitations to dinner are issued by written notes, printed cards or by telephone. If the invitation is by telephone, it is often wise to send a reminder by post. Printed invitations usually imply a relatively formal occasion but if 'black tie' is required it will be stated on the card. ...レベル11 [京産大]
Bread, cakes and similar food contain moderate amounts of water, and are usually described as "intermediate" in water content. The amount of water is more than in dried food, but less than in wet food, such as meat. This amount of water in bread and cakes is critical since ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
The Titanic
The great ship Titanic sailed for New York from Southampton on April 10, 1912. She was carrying 1,316 passengers and a crew of 891. Even by modern standards, the 66,000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship. At that time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built, but was regarded as unsinkable, for she had sixteen watertight compartments. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
◇レベル14 このレベルの長文のリストを表示します。
ランダムに１問だけ表示します。
An English conversation between two people is like a game of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversation ball, I expect you to hit it back. If you agree with me, I don't expect you simply to agree and do nothing more. I expect you to add something -- a reason for agreeing or another example to carry the...レベル14 [中央大]
At the University of Kansas Art Museum, University researchers tested the effects of different colored walls on two groups of visitors to an exhibit of paintings. For the first group the room was...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]
Fort Rodd Hill park
Every year some 100,000 visitors stop by to spend hours at Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Park in British Columbia, Canada, Where once six-inch guns thundered, today the site is idyllic as deer browse on the 44 acres of greensward and peaceful serenity. And in the foreground is beautiful Fisgard Lighthouse, the oldest operating lighthouse on the coast. ...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]
It has been estimated that 80 percent of all the information transmitted over the Internet comes from English-speaking countries. Much the largest English-speaking nation is the United States, which is home to some 64 percent of all the computers linked to the Internet. Other nations belonging to the English language's global empire, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and, of course, Britain, the mother country, account for a further 12.7 percent....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]
