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"Dave, what is your favorite food?"
"I like hamburgers."
-- Question: Does Dave like hamburgers? ...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]
Last month Akira turned fifteen years old and had a birthday party. He received lots of presents. His sister gave him a shirt, and his grandmother gave him some money. ...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]
One afternoon some boys made a lot of noise in class. The teacher got angry. He kept them in the classroom after school. He told them to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 together.――レベル６ [国立工業高専]
Sue and I came home from school at four. Sue played with Ginger and found that our kitten was away. Sue asked Mother but she didn't know. We went into the garden to look for him. At first we coul――レベル７[筑波大付高]
A Frightening Experience
A Journalist's Tragedy
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to the extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.......レベル８
All his life Edward had lived with his parents in a big city, but he had always loved the country, and he was particularly interested in science, so when he finished school he decided to go to an agricultural college and learn how to be a farmer.
He studied all kinds of things at college during his first year, and when the summer vacation came he thought he was already an expert farmer. ...レベル９
Tom Jackson was my school friend, and he and his sister Jenny lived in a tall, old, broken-down house which their parents had bought for practically nothing because it was said to be haunted by a ghost. Rumour had it that a woman had hanged herself by her own hair from the ceiling of the attic room above Tom's bedroom, and that she kept revisiting the scene of the tragedy...レベル10 [センター]
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]
The phone rings at work."Hi, this is Philip Jones," a man says pleasantly. "I'm returning your call." Who? My call? Your brain spins. As you thank him for calling back, you hope it will dawn on you who Philip Jones is and why on earth you wanted to talk to him. ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Protecting the Bluefin
There are many kinds of tuna, but the biggest and most magnificent among them is the bluefin tuna. The largest members of the species can live for 40 years, grow to 3 meters in length, and weigh up to 400 kilograms. The bluefin is found all across the globe, but the most valuable kind, the southern bluefin, usually swims in the colder areas of the seas in the southern hemisphere. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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ランダムに１問だけ表示します。
One of the most talked-about products of twentieth century technology, following the end of World War II, was the prefabricated house.
To many people the word "prefabrication" brought visions of houses rolling off assembly lines like so many automobiles, all neatly packaged and delivered, ready ...レベル14 [京都産業大]
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]
Calcutta
Perhaps no other city on earth is so widely considered a synonym for poverty, overcrowding, disease, and despair as Calcutta. Its teeming slums, crumbling infrastructure, and failed economy have attracted worldwide attention. But ...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]
