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Lesson 8
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A Small Crime
A story of starting a new life-
☆重要表現
最低限
When he was nine years old, he was brought to the door by a policeman who kept one hand on his arm as if to prevent
~のように」
x
him from running away. He had been caught writing with a crayon on a wall of a subway station, and his parents were
クレコン
付帯状況・分詞
expected to discipline him. The entire rest of the day he stayed in his room waiting for his father to come home from the
・緒に
shirt factory. "A slap in the face," he thought, "perhaps that's all I'll get. And maybe no allowance for the coming week."
来たる日
ひょっとした♪
Nevertheless, he could not help but be apprehensive.並びかえ、
それにも関わらずCould not help but v Canet help doing
次の週間
② At five thirty heheard the front door open. His mother was talking to his father. They talked for a long time. much
知覚
longerの前
longer than he felt was sufficient. Then the family ate supper. He was not invited, and he deemed his punishment to have
充分
~と思った。
already started. This saddened him tremendously because he enjoyed eating supper with his father and telling him about the
5 ものすごく
Jx
day's adventure. Frustrated, he tried to idle away the time by reading through his comic books, but he was anxious and
ゆったりと過ごす」
(分構)
r
could not follow through from beginning to end. At seven o'clock he heard the television come on as the family sat down
やり通す。
接続詞
in the living room. Every so often someone changed the channel. By eight thirty night had fallen, and he felt more alone
ときどき
than he had ever been at any time in his life. He looked out into the garden behind his room. He could see the outline of
凪をながめる
りんかく
the young tree his grandfather had planted a month before. It was beginning to sprout leaves, and he tried to decide how
芽ぶきそう
deaves
many it would have that summer. He decided on fifteen. That knowledge made him feel better. / By nine o'clock he was
V
young tree
feeling drowsy and had stretched out on his bed.
memo
横になる。
prevent
A from
15まい
理解
doing 「Aが~するのを妨げる」
Caught doing 「~しているところを見つかる」
☆ while he was themeted
rest of A
「Aの残り」

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Choose the correct title for each paragraph. There are some unnecessary options.
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(a) The Boy's Fear of Police
(b) The Boy's Crime at the Subway Station
(c) What the Boy Felt Alone in His Room
(d) Suppertime at the Boy's House
B Answer T (true) or F (false).
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1. The policeman failed to keep the nine-year-old boy from running away.
2. The boy was so anxious that he read one comic book after another.
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3. When the boy thought of the young tree in the garden, it made him feel better.
Choose the two correct statements.
✗The policeman who caught the boy told his father to discipline him.
The boy assumed that he might not get any allowance the following week.
✓ The boy could not help being anxious because his father was coming home late.
The boy had supper with his father, but he didn't enjoy it because they didn't talk.
When the boy looked out into the garden, it was already dark outside.
D Choose the correct answer.
1. According to paragraph 1, the policeman kept one hand on the boy's arm because
(a) he tried to run away
(b) the policeman was trying to stop him from writing on the wall of the subway station
((c) the policeman thought he might run away
2. According to paragraph 2, the boy was very sad because
(a) his mother and father scolded him severely
(b) his father slapped him in the face
(c) he didn't share the day's adventure with his father
(c)
(F/)
E Answer the following questions. (「Teacher's Manual ①解説 指導編」 の補充問題)
1. Why did the police officer keep one of his hands on the boy's arm?
Because he was writing with a crayon on a wall of a subway station.
2. How often do you think the boy got money from his parents?
I think he get every week
3. To whom did the police officer tell what the boy had done?
A
His mother..
4. What did the boy do during suppertime?
He tried
to
idle away the time by reading through his comic book.
5. What made the boy feel better? -
To think about young tree which / The knowledge.
ナ
that the young tree
in the garden was
to sprout 15 leaves:
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☆分構
13 Shortly afterwards his father came into the room and sat down on the bed. The boy sat up, putting his feet over the side
そのあとすぐに
座り直した な
of the bed. His father looked at him then turned away, clasping his hands together. They were sitting side by side. The
顔をそむける
並んで
boy looked down at the floor the whole time.
その間
4
4 "I remember when I left Romania,” his father said. “I went to the train station in my town and had to sit in a special
5 section for people who were emigrating from the country. There were many other people sitting there, and I remember how
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funny it was that we all looked the same with our best clothes and old suitcases almost bursting with outfits. But what I
前+名 付帯状況
=
remember most of all were the walls. It seemed that every person who had ever sat in that part of the railway station had
この3つを書いた(人々は)
special section
scribbled on the wall his name, his hometown and the new place to which he was going. I spent a long time reading all the
落書き
names on the wall. Many towns were represented, and I even recognized the names of many people with whom I had once
表されている。
見つけた。
父はこれ
been acquaintances And do you know what I did? I took out my pen, found a clear space on the wall and wrote my own
知人
A
name, my hometown and the date. But you see, I did not write on the wall out of mischief: no, it was my own way of
行き先じゃない日付。 「いいかい?」
Aから理由 いたづら
claiming, “This is who I am now I am ending an old life and starting a new one Perhaps one day you will have the same
主張
おそらく
☆
reason. But as long as times are good and we are welcome here, there are other and better ways of letting the world know、
「~する限り」↓
14 who you are. "
時代
I
(並びかえありそう。)
memo
54513 emigrating from A
因から移住する。

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A Choose the correct title for each paragraph. There are some unnecessary options.
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a)
(a) The Father's Memories at a Station
(b) How the Father Entered the Room
(c) The Father's Journey from Romania
(d) The Boy and His Father Sitting on the Bed
B Answer T (true) or F (false).
1. When his father came into the room, the boy couldn't look him in his eyes.
(T
2. When the boy's father went to the train station, people there were shabbily dressed. (F)
3. While the boy's father was in the railway station, he passed the time drawing pictures on the wall.
Choose the two correct statements.
When the boy's father went to the train station, he saw a lot of people coming into Romania.
2. The boy's father found not only the names of many other places on the wall, but also the names of people
he knew.
✗The boy's father regretted getting into mischief while waiting for a train.
こうかい
4 Perhaps the time will come when the boy will let the world know who he is.
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5. The boy's father told the boy that there were better ways of writing on walls.
Choose the correct answer.
1. According to paragraph 3, when his father came into the room,
(a) the boy didn't notice it
(b) the boy was lying on his bed
(c) the boy was sitting on his bed
寝→座る
(c)(b)
2. According to paragraph 4, some of the suitcases people had brought to the station (c).
(a) broke open
(b) were too large for them to carry
were about to burst open from the pressure inside them
押すこと
Answer the following questions. (「Teacher's Manual ①解説 指導編」の補充問題)
I. How long did it take the boy's father to visit the boy's room after he came home?
Shortly afterwards about
three and
a
half hours.
2. How did the boy feel just before his father came into his room? He was feeling drape and had stren
Tooked down at the floor the whole time. regret
The boy
claimed
hd
auton hishad
He took.
-haw
1
am
ending a
an old life and
Starting a new one
3. How did the father leave Romania? by train.
This is who I am
What was written on the walls of the train station?
He
Scribbled ch
the wall his home, hishometown and the new place feuhich
5 How did the father let the world know who he was?
Wrote his own
he was going
"name; his hometown and the date. B. on the
wall
of the trainstation.

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w.
5 He put his hand on the boy's shoulder as if to say, “Don't worry; everything is all right." Then he rose slowly and said:
言うかのように(言ってない)
“Be good to your mother and me and leave the walls alone." Then he left the room.
ゆっくり立ち上が1
leave alone 「Aを放っておく」 →もう解決したんだろな…。
6 The boy lay back on his bed.
後ろにもたれる。
for almost half an hour.
Ordinarily, it took him only two or three minutes to fall asleep. That night he lay awake
通常 it take 四国 to do 「Aが~するのにB (時間)かかる」
lie amake
memo
※why
父が書いた理由
←
自分を主張する方法について、
○怒られなかったご
強迫観念
Choose the correct title for each paragraph. There are some unnecessary options.
⑤ ( C
dai
(a) The Boy Turning His Thoughts to His Father's Story
(b) The Parents' Wish for the Future.
(c) What the Father Said in the End
((d). The Night of Uncomfortable Sleep
Answer T (true) or F (false).
A. It took more than one hour for the boy to fall asleep.
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2. The boy's father stood up after he said a few words to the boy.
3. The boy was told to be good to his parents.
© Choose the one correct statement.
. The father told the boy, “Don't worry."
The boy felt alone on seeing his father leave his room.
3. The boy's father touched his son on the shoulder with a caring feeling.
(T)F
(T

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D
Choose the correct answer.
1. According to paragraph 5, the boy's father told the boy
(b)
(a) to clean the wall in the subway station
(b) not to touch the wall in the subway station again
(c) to leave the policeman alone
2. According to paragraph 6, after his father left the room,
(a) the boy soon fell asleep
(b) the boy stayed awake longer than usual
(b)
(c) the boy went straight to sleep
Answer the following questions. (「Teacher's Manual ①解説 指導編」の補充問題)
1. What did the father say when he left the room?
He said
-
ぬきだし
Be good to
Your
mother and me
and leave the walls alone"
2. How long did it take the boy to fall asleep that night?
It took his Almost half an hour..
3. Did the boy's expectations about the punishment come true?
No he didny.
Let's make summary
Japanese
彼はいたづら心で地下鉄の壁に落書きをしていたところを警察につかまり、
家に帰ったあとも酷い罰を受けるのでは無いかと不安になっていた。
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English

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~を妨げる 防ぐ
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Ipoliceman
名詞
警察官
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prevent
動詞
8
90
Icrayon
名詞
クレヨン
8
90
subway
地下鉄
8
90
discipline
「動詞
~をしつける
8
90 slap
名詞
平手打ち
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90allowance
名詞
小遣い
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Inevertheless
副詞
それにもかかわらず やはり
8
90 apprehensive
形容詞
心配して 恐れて
8
90
sufficient
形容詞
十分な、足りる
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90
Jsupper
名詞
夕食
8
90 deem
動詞
~だと考える
8
90 punishment
名詞
|罰
8
90
sadden
動詞
8
90
tremendously
副詞
~を悲しませる
ひどく、猛烈に
8
90
adventure
名詞
思いがけない出来事 [事件 ]
8
90
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frustrate
動詞
~を失望させる
8
90 lidle
動詞
8
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anxious
形容詞
8
90
[channel
名詞
8
90
Toutline
8
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sprout
名詞
動詞
輪郭, 外形
8
90
[drowsy
形容詞
S
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afterward(s)
8
90
[elasp
副詞
動詞
~を握りしめる
8
91
|Romania
固有名詞 ルーマニア
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lemigrate
`動詞
移住する
S
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burst
動詞
爆発する, 破裂する
s
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loutfit
名詞
|衣装一式
S
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railway
8
91
|scribble
名詞 |鉄道
動詞 落書きする
8
91
hometown
名詞
故郷
8
91
acquaintance
名詞 |知人、知り合い
8
91
mischief
8
91
lordinarily
8
91
8
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lasleep
lawake
名詞 いたずら、悪ふざけ
副詞 | 通常 たいてい
形容詞 眠って、眠り込んで
形容詞眠らずに、目を覚まして
何もしないで[無為に]時間を過ごす
心配して、不安で
| (テレビなどの) チャンネル
~を芽生えさせる
眠い うとうとしている
| 後で,その後
la male police officer
to stop someone from doing something or to stop something from
Chappening
a stick of colored wax or chalk to draw pictures
la railway system that runs underground
to teach someone to obey rules and control their behavior
la quick hit with the flat part of your hand
money that a parent regularly gives to a child
despite something that you have just mentioned [=however]
worried about something that you are going to do, or about the
future
Jenough to complete or accomplish a particular purpose; as much as is
necessary
the meal that you have in the early evening_
to think of something in a particular way or as having a particular
quality, often after careful thought
the act of making someone suffer because they have done something
wrong
to make someone sad
I to a very large or extreme degree
|an exciting experience in which you meet with or encounter
dangerous or unusual things
to make someone feel annoyed or impatient because they cannot do
lor achieve what they want or because some desired result does not
happen
to spend time doing nothing important
worried about something
television station related to a number on the TV
la line around the edge of something which shows its shape
to begin to grow
tired and sleepy
lafter an event or time that has already happened
to hold someone or something tightly
la country in Southeast Europe
to leave our own country in order to live in another country
to break open or apart suddenly
la set of clothes that you wear together as a unit, especially for a
particular occasion or purpose
la system of tracks along which trains run
to write something down quickly and often in poor handwriting
the place where you were born or grew up
la person that you know some but who is not a close friend
| bad behavior that causes trouble or damage but no serious harm
Jusually
|sleeping [⇔awake]
| the situation of not being asleep
[4]
1. About three and a half houn
2. He
was
3. By train.
fedling drousy and had streched out on his bed
4. There
were names
of emigrants,
therehometown, and the new place where they
they were going.