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次の英文を読み、下の問に答えよ。
(A)Most human beings are rendered incapable of living the good life by four considerations.
(a) They work too long and exhaust their energies, blunt their sensibilities and expend their spirits in getting the (1)means to make life possible.
(b) They work at dull and tiring tasks which do not (2)fire their imaginations or exercise their (3)reasons. Moreover, (B)their work consists very largely in the (4)management of machines, the effect of continual intercourse with (5)which is to close the avenues of the mind, to restrict its activities and to reduce its interests to those of schoolboys and mechanics.
(c) They are (6)inadequately educated, so that they are unable to realize their potentialities and get most out of life by bringing to it the most that is in themselves. Their (7)faculty for the appreciation of great work in art and literature (8)remains, for example, undeveloped.
(d) Their (9)ends are restricted by the circumstances of their lot. Enough to eat and drink, a comfortable house to live in, a secure job, provision for sickness and unemployment, with and occasional pleasure trip --- these, for most of them, (10)exhaust the conception of "goods". [早大・改]
設問
[A]
下線部(A)と(B)―their work ..... school boys and mechanics.まで―を和訳せよ。
[B]
下線部をほどこした語(1)〜(10)について、それぞれもっとも適当なものを選べ。
(1)means means:
(a) money (b) conditions (c) meaning (d) expenditure (e) reasons
(2)fire means:
(a)trouble (b) dismiss (c) excite (d) shoot (e) consume
(3)reason means:
(a) whatever produces an effect (b) power to do some special things (c) explanation (d) ability to think and draw conclusions (e) interpretation
(4)management means:
(a) buying and selling (b) automatic controlling (c) watching (d) piling and polishing (e) handling
(5)which means:
(a) intercourse (b) machines (c) their work (d) management (e) the effect
(6)inadequately means:
(a) unequally (b) not properly (c) irregularly (d) inconveniently (e) unprofitably
(7)faculty means:
(a) sympathetic understanding (b) effort in making something (c) power of the mind (d) strength of will (e) steady progress
(8)remain means:
(a) leave (b) stay (c) cause to remember (d) be left after a part has been destroyed (e) reflect
(9)end means:
(a) the last part (b) conclusion (c) consequence (d) extremity (e) purpose
(10)exhaust means:
(a) break (b) complete (c) not have any longer (d) find out the existence of (e) shield from danger
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