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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]

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Emi, a junior high school student, is walking to school on Monday morning. She meets an American on the street.... レベル２ [英検５級]

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A Day at the Beach
Last year, Bob and his sister Jean went to Florida for their summer vacation with their parents. They visited Florida for one week. The weather was very nice. So everyone was really happy. ... レベル３ [英検４級]

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The Old Cherry Tree
One April afternoon Takashi decided to visit the area of Tokyo where he once lived. When he was twelve years old, he lived in a large wooden house. However, his father changed jobs and his family had to move to the country. They sold their old house and bought one in the country. Then they moved there. They didn't return to Tokyo. ....レベル４ [英検３級]

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What do you know about the sea? Most of you have played in it. You know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. You also know that it is dangerous when the weather is very bad. What else do you know about it?――レベル５

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What do you know about the sea? Most of you have played in it. You know that it looks very pretty when the sun is shining on it. You also know that it is dangerous when the weather is very bad. What else do you know about it?――レベル７

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Anybody who travels to Japan by way of Asia must feel on arrival that he has entered a semi-Western environment. Yet the longer...レベル８

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Harry Barber had been driving a taxi for over ten years. He enjoyed his work because it gave him a chance to meet a lot of interesting people. He had driven someone to the airport, and was waiting for a fare back to the city, when a famous movie star opened the door. It was Susan Pink, Harry's favorite actress. He recognized her as soon as she got in the taxi. ...レベル９

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Mr. Taylor raised himself up in his bed and held his beautiful old violin out to Julie. "I want to give this to you for your first wedding anniversary," he declawww99. "Take it to the orchestra rehearsal and tell them you want to sell it." Julie was surprised. She said, "It's wonderful of you to want to give this to us, but I wouldn't dream of taking anything so valuable."...レベル10 [センター]

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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]

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Almost any opinion poll in the 1990s reveals a deep-seated anxiety among people about America's economic future. No matter how much we are told that the economy is growing or how many new jobs are created, Americans feel they are on shaky ground. They worry about the future---both their own and their children's. ...レベル15 [早稲田大・人間工学]

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Challenges Facing American Health Care
There are currently 600,000 doctors in the United States, and experts say that is about 30% more than are actually needed. This excess, however, has not discouraged large numbers of ambitious students from applying to medical school. ... 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

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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]

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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]

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Dialing the Future
Phones are pretty handy things just the way they are. But when phones get hooked up to computers, it's no exaggeration to describe the new potential as a world communications revolution.
Internationally, telephone systems are now in the midst of that change and it is fast gathering speed. ...レベル17 [英検準１級]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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The degree to which males and females are socially unequal has varied, both cross-culturally and historically, from near equality to radical female disadvantage. Such variation is linked to the type of technology and economy (e.g., industrial, agrarian, horticultural, foraging) and to women's role in the economy. Women's status relative ...レベル20 [慶応義塾大学　環境情報学部]