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"What time do you go to bed, Steve?"
"I go to bed at 11:00."
-- Question: What time does Steve go to bed? ...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]
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]
Robert's Stay in Japan
Three years ago, Robert lived with a Japanese family near Tokyo. His host parents live in a small house with their two children. Robert's host father's parents also live in the house. Robert stayed with them for two months. ....レベル４ [英検３級]
Because plants cannot move or talk, most people think they have no feelings, they think they cannot receive signals from outside. But a plant knows about the sun and about gravity. If you put a plant in a dark corner, in a few hours it will bow towards the light. ――レベル５
When I was a little girl about seventy years ago, I lived in Chicago with my mother, father and little brother Bob. We were very happy because our apartment had a bathroom. Most other families in our building had to use one bathroom together.――レベル６ [青山学院大高等部]
Climbing the most difficult mountains needs a very special mental condition. Because the climber is doing something very difficult, everything that he or she sees, hears, or feels must come ――レベル７
Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square, New York, and looked up at the sky. A dead leaf fell on his arm. Winter was coming, and Soapy knew that he must make his plans. He wanted three months in a nice, warm prison, with food and friends. This was how he usually spent his winters. And now it was time, because at night on his seat in the square, three newspapers did not keep out the cold. ..レベル８ [中部大]
The Four-Day School Week
Most students in the United States attend school five days a week. Some schools, however, have decreased the number of days that students have to attend classes to create a four-day school week. ...レベル９[英検準２級]
Mrs. Tortino lived in an old Victorian house crowded all around by tall, new buildings, fifteen, twenty stories high. The house had been her family's for many years, and Mrs. Tortino was determined never to leave it...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]
There is no issue of our times more challenging or more difficult to solve than the global warming caused by greenhouse gasses, unless it is the explosive, exponential growth of the world's human population. The world has been warming for over one hundred years and may ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]
Every year there are about 100,000 square kilometers of tropical rain forest being destroyed. In fact, at the present rate of destruction there may be little left of tropical rain forests by the year 2000. Scientists have warned us for a long time about this, but only recently are people beginning to care. ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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Our passion for doing things for ourselves is so great that we are becoming increasingly less dependent on specialized labor. No one can be ignorant of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it-yourself publications. Armed with the right tools and materials, the newly married gaily engage.........レベル14
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]
Kids Need Computers!
In the area of education and technology, U.S. families are divided into two groups -- those where children have access to computers and those where they don't. In homes where income is less than $20,000, just 15% of children ...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]
Fundamentally, there are just two major food illnesses in our society: eating too much and eating too little. The former is more prevalent, but both have steadily increased over the past few decades, and both are important because, when pushed to their extremes, they are killers. People who are very overweight may have various health problems, the most deadly of which begins...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]
