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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]
----- 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]
The Tickets
Daisuke is a junior high school student from Nagoya. He is staying at Mr. White's home in California this summer. Mr. White worked with Daisuke's ... レベル３ [英検４級]
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
Much of the land of the Netherlands is as low as the sea. Some of the land is even lower than the sea. The word Netherlands means "Lowlands". The Dutch people――レベル６[筑波大付駒場高]
How easily a bird flies from one tree to another! How difficult it was for men to learn how to fly! The story of the coming of the airplane is a story of difficulties and death.
Men have wanted to fly for more than two thousand years. There is an ――レベル７[立教大]
In Japan, April is a month of beginnings and renewals, a sort of second New Year. April is the beginning of the new school year, and the start of careers for newly hired college graduates. It's also the start of a new year in business. For Japanese baseball fans, the regular season of play opens in early April, with some well-known actor or politician throwing the first pitch. ......レベル８ [日大・文理]
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]
Although we normally associate suits of armor with the knights of medieval Europe, the idea of such protective coverings is much older and more pervasive than that. Some knights even outfitted their horses with metal armor. As long as 3,500 years ago, Assyrian and Babylonian...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]
In America workers were not always treated well. In the early days of the 1880's, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Europe came to the United States. They worked for very little pay. The owners of businesses and factories were able to get a lot of work for little money. They expected their employees to work 10 to 16 hours a day. Women and children worked for lower wages than men, and owners hired them for this reason. ... レベル12 [駒澤大]
Gestures
A gesture is any action that sends a visual signal to an onlooker. To become a gesture, an act has to be seen by someone else and has to communicate some piece of information. It can do this either because the gesturer deliberately sets out to send a signal --- as when he waves his hand --- or it can do it only incidentally ... レベル13 [英検２級]
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The homes into which most babies are born are places where people talk. They will talk about the baby and a great many other things as well, and before long---long before they expect any response---they will talk to the baby. Among the other noises that reach its ears are likely to be television programmes,...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]
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]
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]
WATCH OUT!!
Millions of cold viruses are now on their way to invade and destroy the cells of your nose and breathing passages. Let's look up your nose and see what happens... The cells inside your nose are always ready for trouble. They produce a gloppy fluid called mucus that traps viruses and other ...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]
