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"Cindy, do you like cycling?"
"Yes, I like it very much."
"Great, let's go cycling next Sunday."
-- Question: Does Cindy like cycling? ...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]
Michael's Favorite Sports
Students in America do many different sports. Michael is a high school student in Minnesota. In winter, many students play ice hockey and basketball there. Michael is on his high school's hockey team. He and his friends practice it after school five days a week. But his team is not so strong. Last year his team played twenty games but won only three of them. Sometimes they even practice it on Sundays. ....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]
Her mother and father died when Dorothy was very young, and she lived with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas. Their house was very small, and made of wood. When the big wind blew, the family always went――レベル７
About fifteen hundred years ago the Japanese imported many aspects of Chinese culture: the writing system, political institutions, and perhaps most important, Buddhism. Buddhist priests were expected to eat only vegetables,...速読演習レベル８ ――[センター試験]より
Glenn Cunningham
One cold morning in a school in Kansas, Glenn Cunningham and his brother tried to start a fire in the classroom stove. Unfortunately, someone has filled the stove with gasoline by mistake and it exploded. As a result, Glenn's legs were very badly burned and his brother died. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
My old friend John Price persuaded me to take up hill walking. I am far from being the world's fittest man, and I always find it very tough. But when I first climbed to the top of a mountain, the view was so beautiful that I fell in love with walking. So now we go walking together whenever we can...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]
Computer viruses are a form of life whose destructive powers reflect unfavorably on its creators -- humans. So says British astrophysicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking.
Scientists still debate whether biological viruses are life forms. That is because viruses, such as those causing measles and colds, depend on other living cells...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
The American dream has always been to rise from poverty or modest wealth to great wealth. In the United States this has usually been accomplished through successful business careers. The successful businessman has become a kind of hero to the American people. Two kinds of businessman-heroes have gained widespread respect among the people. ... 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。
I don't do as many things I don't like to do as I had to when I was young.
Except that you have more years ahead of you, youth isn't necessarily a better time of life than any other. When I was young, I was always having to do things I hated.....レベル14
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]
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]
