高校英語の問題演習
令和6年9月15日
比喩表現の読解
※立教大学の入試問題を参考に作られています。（全角カタカナか半角数字のみ入力すること）
次の文を読み、下記の設問に答えよ。
All of us, almost daily, experience the mobility of our world: we could be in Tibet tomorrow. And not only our bodies, but also our minds are traveling at the speed of light. Global communications have made us all （ 1a ） neighbors and taught us tolerance. Two generations ago, there were no roads in Nepal; now the information super-highway and English language paths run through the teahouses of the Himalayas.
Yet even as we enjoy the opportunities of the borderless economy and the varieties of world music and our ability to appreciate the cultures of the world in our living rooms, we fail sometimes to consider where we are going or what we might be losing. "To be rooted," wrote the philosopher Simone Weil, "is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul." And in our dawning age of rootlessness, we tend to speed into the future (2)without counting the bends in the road.
One problem, of course, is that everything is happening so quickly. Five years ago is ancient history now, and yesterday scarcely prepares us for today. We have no （ 1b ） examples to guide us. The classical poets Homer and Virgil sang of travelers, but not ones crossing 11 time zones before noon. And *nomads have always traveled across the earth, but on foot and in tune with the rhythm of the seasons and tradition. A new age of mobility means a new age of homesickness ― and that is for those of us lucky enough to have a home.
All of us are （ 3 ） travelers now, able to fly in less than a day from the 21st century (downtown Tokyo, for example) to the 13th (Bhutan, where costumes, houses and customs are maintained in strict medieval style). Tonight we can fly into the depths of the （ 1c ） season ― or into the arms of a family we have not seen for 20 years. And the shrinking of distances in space may blind us to (4)the more significant distances that remain: flying from Beirut to Beijing to Bogota on successive days ― and finding the same services in each ― we may underestimate the differences in value and assumption. The truths of the village square do not extend across the global village.
Thus traveling today can be like watching TV, channel surfing through a mass of images too fast to read and too various to sort. And traveling tomorrow, for those of us without a firm sense of neighborhood or community or home, may involve an even stronger sense of （ 1d ） confusion. Our values like our bodies may be up in the air or lost in space. The only thing that can support the burden of our movement, after all, is a steadying sense of stillness. "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not," wrote the philosopher Emerson, who considered travel a "fool's paradise." The same is even truer of our sense of destination or home: whatever we find when we travel is only what we had inside us all along.
*nomads：遊牧民
問1 空所（ 1a ）～（ 1d ）に入れるのに最も適当なものを、次のア～エからそれぞれ1つずつ選びなさい。
ア．opposite イ．virtual
ウ．previous エ．spiritual
問2 下線部(2)の意味として最も適当なものを、次のア～エから1つ選びなさい。
ア．所要時間など計算しないで
イ．頼りになる道連れもなく
ウ．先々のことは考えないで
エ．金銭的裏づけもないまま
問3 空所（ 3 ）に入れるのに最も適当なものを、次のア～エから1つ選びなさい。
ア．time イ．space
ウ．business エ．fellow
問4 下線部(4)の内容を30字以内の日本語で述べなさい。
問5 次の文1～8から本文の内容と一致するものを2つ選び、その番号を答えなさい。順序は問わない。
1．Global communications have not brought us closer to others around the world.
2．In this age of borderless economies, we can not appreciate the cultures of the world by staying at home.
3．In modern times, five years is not a long period.
4．In this new age of mobility, there are more rootless people.
5．People living in Tokyo can now travel to Bhutan within 24 hours.
6．As the distances between various cities shrink, we notice differences in values more clearly.
7．When we watch TV, the fast changing images give us a good understanding of the world around us.
8．These days local values apply to most other parts of the world.
令和6年5月25日
another, other, othersなど
※（ ）内の大学の入試問題で出題された問題です。（全角カタカナのみ入力すること）
次のそれぞれの文について、意味が通じるように（ ）をうめるのに最も適切なものを一つずつ選び、記号で答えなさい。
（１）A bird in flight can change direction by dipping one wing and lifting （ ）.
（立命館大）
ア the one イ another
ウ the other エ the latter
（２）Since she didn't like the first kind of perfume, she asked the salesperson to show her （ ）.
（京都産業大）
ア another kind イ other kind
ウ the another kind エ the other's kind
（３）I have five boxes here. One is full of books and （ ） are all empty.
（関西学院大）
ア other イ the ones
ウ the other エ the others
（４）Some TV programs are fine, but （ ） seem bad for children.
（神奈川大）
ア others イ the other
ウ other エ another
（５）To read English is one thing; to speak it is （ ）.
（京都産業大）
ア anything イ something
ウ other thing エ another thing
（６）The typhoon is still around here, so I'll be staying here for （ ） three days.
（立命館大）
ア another イ more
ウ other エ the other
令和6年2月25日
it構文の解釈
※（ ）内の大学の入試問題を参考に作られています。
次の下線部の英文を日本語になおしなさい。
（１）It is true that various forms of communication can be used in various ways to satisfy a variety of needs. But it is also true that particular forms are better at doing some things than others. Photographs are good at representing visual aspects of the world.
（日本女子大）
（２）The working hours for countries outside the E.C. may not be quite comparable, but it appears that workers in the U.S. and Canada put in more time than most Europeans, and the Japanese work even longer than the Portuguese, more than 2,100 hours a year.
（横浜国立大）
（３）Human beings are talkative creatures and always have been, so far as we can see. It was our urge to communicate with each other and growing ability to do so that was probably the chief factor in the development that made us different from all other animals.
（埼玉大）
（４）People die. It is a strange event, a strange order of event; it is an order that is not accurately understood. Nobody really knows what death is. Everybody talks about death all their lives. Everybody dies and falls silent.
（山口大）