レベル別 今日の読み物
レベル１/
レベル２/
レベル３/
レベル４/
レベル５/
レベル６/
レベル７/
レベル８/
レベル９/
レベル10/
レベル11/
レベル12/
レベル13/
レベル14/
レベル15/
レベル16/
レベル17/
レベル18/
レベル19/
レベル20/
"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 Present for Tom
Yesterday was Tom's birthday. His family had a party for him. His mother cooked a special dinner. After dinner, his brother played the guitar and his sister sang a song. ... レベル３ [英検４級]
Animals for Sick People
Mary often visits her grandmother, and they enjoy spending time together. But last month, Mary's grandmother became sick. She had to leave home and go to a hospital for old people. Mary was worried, but when she visited the hospital, her grandmother looked happy. She was able to get out of bed and show Mary around. ....レベル４ [英検３級]
Long ago, there was an old man whose name was John Smith. John lived with his sons on a big farm. One day he became very sick and he knew he was going to die, so he called his sons to his room.
"Sons," he said, "I have already given one horse to Pete, four to Dick and eight to Bob. Now, I will give one half of my cows to ――レベル５ [大分県]
The next day was Christmas. While the three of them were driving to the rocket port, the mother and father were worrying. It was the boy's first trip into space, and they hoped everything would be OK. So when――レベル６
Rainforests are perhaps the most important places on Earth. And yet we destroy thousands of square kilometers every year. In 1950, rainforests covered fifteen percent of the Earth's land. We have already destroyed half of these. Will there be any rainforests in the year 2020? No one knows the answer to that question....レベル７――[御茶ﾉ水女子大学付属高等学校]
One year Miss Wyatt had a holiday in Italy. She did not speak much Italian, but wherever she went, she was lucky...レベル８
Ogopogo, the Lake Monster
More than a hundred years ago, Native Americans who lived near Canada's Lake Okanagan said that they could see a huge and very strange creature in the water. They were afraid of it and called it the "Devil of the Lake." Whenever they had to cross the lake by boat, they would throw a small animal into the lake as a sacrifice in order to stop the monster from attacking them. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
The Edinburgh Festival The Edinburgh International Festival came into being in 1947, while the shadows of the Second Worlf War still hung heavily over a Europe united only in its dullness and austerity. It owes...レベル10 [英検１級リスニング]
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]
Making mistakes is the key to making progress. There are times, of course, when it is important not to make any mistakes -- ask any surgeon or airline pilot. But it is less widely appreciated that there are also times ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
An Itch to Know
Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito or had dry skin in the winter? If so, then you know how annoying an itch can be. But what, exactly, is an itch? Itching seems much like pain in many ways. Both sensations are carried by our nerves, but they are actually very different. Pain has been closely studied by ... 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。
By the middle of the 19th century most locomotives had steam-powered brakes. Steam from the boiler operated a piston that forced curved brake shoes against the wheel. The steam worked very well on locomotives,...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]
Managing the Oceans
The oceans an their resources are a necessary element of life on the planet. The health of the oceans and the wise, safe and sustainable use of the ocean resources, should be an axiom for all governments to accept and honour for the long-term benefit and existence of their respective and collective peoples. ...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]
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]
