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A mask is a "false face" and can have several functions.
(1)
いくつかの
First, and most commonly in Western societies, a mask can be
used to hide the identity of the person wearing it. Criminals
(2)
a mark sex
often wear masks for this reason, but they can also be used for
fun things. At one time, for example, masked balls were very
かつて
[[[[]]]]
popular in Europe. These were dances where all the people
who attended wore masks and only removed them at the end of
その後の
the night. Second, there is a belief in some cultures that the
person wearing the mask can change into or be taken over by
the character of the mask. Masks are often thought to contain
great power, and for this reason only certain individuals are
allowed to make and wear them in many cultures.
(4)
2 In modern Western culture one of the most famous people
~の1人
to wear a mask was the phantom. The phantom was a character
in a series of comic books. He was an ordinary man who had
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special powers when he put on a particular costume and mask,
~を身につける
and he used those powers to fight crime.
戦う
3 Masks are also important in many different kinds of dance
Lesson 03 (1/5)
and theater. Actors and dancers use them to help the audience
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recognize the characters that they are playing. In ancient Greek
theater, for example, actors wore masks with exaggerated. 03
大げさな
expressions. Masks are also of great importance in Chinese and
表情
Japanese theater. An interesting modern use of masks is for the
training of actors. A Canadian teacher has discovered that if
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2
students are allowed to wear simple masks
little or no expression
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15
ほとんど、あるいは全く表情のない
-
-even one with
they perform with more confidence
than when they have to show their own faces. Perhaps they
believe that no one can see their true self because they are
誰も~できない
behind a mask.
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■次の英文を読み, あとの設問に答えなさい。
(A
Doctors say the most effective way to prevent the spread
of disease is for people to wash their hands with soap and water.
There are programs around the world to increase hand-washing
with soap. One-million lives could be saved each year if people
(life)
washed their hands with soap often.
Hand-washing kills germs from other people, animals or
objects a person has touched. When people get "bacteria on
体
their hands, they can "infect themselves by touching their eyes,
nose or mouth. Then these people can infect other people. The
easiest way to catch a cold is to touch your nose or eyes after
someone nearby has sneezed or coughed. Another way to
近くの
become sick is to eat food prepared by someone whose hands
are not clean.
Hand-washing is especially important before and after
特に
preparing food, before eating, and after using the toilet. People
should wash their hands after handling animals and after
cleaning a baby. Doctors say it is also a good idea to wash your
hands after handling money and after sneezing or coughing. It
is important to wash your hands often when someone in your
home is sick.
The most effective way to wash your hands is to rub them
も
together after putting soap and warm water on them. Doctors [104]
say you do not have to use special anti-bacterial soap. Be sure
~する必要はない (need not~)
be sure
to rub all areas of the hands for about ten to fifteen seconds.
The soap and the rubbing action remove germs. Rinse the
木で決
hands with water and dry them.
People using public restrooms should dry their hands with a
paper towel and use the towel to turn off the water. Doctors
~する~を止める
also advise using the paper towel to open the restroom door
before throwing the towel away in order to help you avoid
getting the germs of people who did not wash well.
*注 effective 効果的な
germs
infect 感染させる
bacteria ばい菌
sneezed or coughed くしゃみや咳をした
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The American diet changed greatly between 1850 and 1950.
(1)
If you had lived in 1850, you would have eaten meals that were
ほとんどの
neither tasty nor balanced. The daily diet of most Americans
meither A or BAでもできない)
毎日の
included potatoes, bread, milk, and salted beef or salted pork.
(Salted beef and salted pork are meats preserved in salt.)
During most of the year, there was no way to keep dairy
most of the ~(~の大部分)
(2)
products fresh. So you got used to drinking sour milk and
get used to Ving (~することに慣れる)
eating spoiled butter. Foods that spoiled could not be shipped
だめになった
(AT
far, so you could only eat fruits and vegetables that were grown
near where you lived. Even then you might not have eaten
その場合でも
many fruits and vegetables, because these foods were often
considered dangerous to the health.
In the years after 1850, Americans began to eat a more
1850年以降
balanced diet. Trains carried fresh foods to the cities in
refrigerator cars. Food companies preserved and sold many
(3[]
Sellの過去形
other foods in cans and jars. Americans soon enjoyed a much
more varied and tasty diet.
Sell-sold-sald
In the late 1800s, Americans bought their foods in small
Lesson 05 (1/7)
grocery stores. In the early 1900s, the first supermarket, or
食料品
large self-service food store, opened. Supermarkets did not
catch on at first, but they became popular in the 1930s and
(4) 流行する
Supermarkets
1940s. By 1950 most Americans did their food shopping in
1950年までに
supermarkets.
And what a variety of foods the supermarkets of 1950
Wheta... ~SV! (Sはなんとな~をするのだろう)←感嘆文
offered! Shoppers could choose from hundreds of canned and
何もの
packaged foods. They could also buy fresh fruits and vegetables
nearly all year round. And if shoppers couldn't find a certain
(5)
fresh vegetable or fruit they wanted, they could probably buy it
frozen.
05
The great variety of foods improved the American diet. As a
結果的に
result, Americans of 1950 enjoyed longer and healthier lives than
had Americans a hundred years before.
catch 「捕らえる」
catch (目標) 「~をつかもうとする」
catch (接触)「気づく」
catch (へ) 「追いつく」
catch
with ~に追いつく」
西なつにあう」
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Lesson 06 (1/5)
■次の英文を読み, あとの設問に答えなさい。
Your brain is very weak compared to a computer. I will give
に比べて
you a series of numbers, one, three, seven.... Or rather, ichi,
連続する~
san, shichi, san, ni, go, ni, go, ichi, hachi, ichi, ni, san, go. Now
I want you to repeat them back to me. A computer can take.
tens of thousands of numbers and give them back to me in
reverse, or sum them or do lots of things that we cannot do.
逆に
計する
多くの
On the other hand, if I look at a face, quickly I can tell
それに対して
you
who
it is if I know that person, or that I don't know that person. We
(A
do not yet know how to make a computer system so that if we
まだ・・・ない
give it a pattern of a face it can give us such information, even if
たとえ~でも
Computer
it has seen many faces and you have tried to teach it.
computer
Another interesting example is chess-playing machines. It is
quite a surprise that we can make machines that play chess
本当に quit(~やめる
better than almost everybody in the room. But they do it by
trying many, many possibilities. If he moves here, then I could
move here, and he can move there, and so forth. Computers
~など
look at each alternative, analyze millions of possibilities, and
選択肢 分析する
choose the best. On the other hand, master chess players,
human beings, do it differently. They recognize patterns and
look at only thirty or forty possibilities at best before deciding
what move to make.
Therefore, although the rules are simpler in "Go, machines
although SVCSはVするけれども)
that play Go are not very good, because in each position there
are too many possible moves and there are too many things to
check and the machines cannot look deeply. The problem of
recognizing patterns and dealing with too many possibilities is
something that the computer engineers still find very difficult.
It is certainly one of the important tasks for future computers,
仕事
perhaps you would like to design a machine to play Go
effectively!
効率的に
*注 Go
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Scientists have already found out a lot about our world. For
~を発見する
example, they tell us that the sun can make the wind blow.
When the sun shines, it makes the earth hot. Then the earth
makes the air hot. When the air becomes hot, it also becomes
light. The light air goes up. When cool air comes in to take the
place of the hot air, the hot, light air goes up very high. When
it is very high, it cools and falls to earth. Then the earth makes
the air hot again, and the air rises. This movement of air is one
of the causes of wind.
2 Why does your heart beat fast when you run? Scientists say
that when you are quiet, your heart beats 65 to 75 times a
minute. Your heart is a pump that pumps blood to all parts of
the body. The blood carries oxygen and food. When you run,
your muscles work very hard and use the food and oxygen that
[節肉
the blood carries to them. So your brain sends a signal to the
heart. The signal means that the muscles need more food and
(AT
oxygen. Then the heart beats faster and sends blood quickly to
the muscles. It may beat 90 to 140 times a minute.
10
15
▼Lesson07 (1/5)
Of course, scientists cannot answer all of our questions. If
we ask why the ocean is full of salt, scientists will say that the
salt comes from rocks. When a rock gets very hot or very cold,
it cracks. Rain falls into the cracks. The rain then carries the
salt into the earth and into the rivers. The rivers carry the salt
into the ocean. Then we may want to know what happens to the
salt in the ocean because the ocean doesn't get saltier every
(B)
year. Scientists are not sure about the answer to this question.
be sure about~(~に確信を持っている)
We know a lot about our world, but there are still many
answers that we do not have.
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庄高
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■次の英文を読み, あとの設問に答えなさい。
Many people find that they can maintain their ideal weight
before entering the workforce, but then things change. After
sitting at a desk all day and then commuting in rush-hour traffic,
通勤する
a lot of people say they do not have the energy to go to a gym.
This seems to be a common problem in most developed
countries. The IT revolution has made this problem worse
In the past, people at least got up and walked around the office
少なくとも立ち上がる
以前は
and there were frequent visits to other companies. But heavy
use of E-mail and the Internet means that office workers make
less use of their legs. For a growing number of deskbound.
デスクワークの
employees, work means moving only fingers and lips.
Another obvious reason for gaining weight at the workplace
明らかな
is the convenience of fast foods. Busy office workers do not
利さ
often have the time for a healthy lunch, but it is easy to get a
quick hamburger or pizza.
Other workers skip
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lunch all together and instead make
ひとまとめにして
up for it by eating snacks from the vending machine or having a
up fe~(~の埋め合わせをする)
make
big dinner late in the evening. It seems that the busier you are,
the A
(Aであればあるほど)
the harder it is to find the time to eat properly.
The best way to control what you eat, say experts, is to eat
専門家が言うには
three meals a day -with lunch being preferably something you
なるべく
have brought from home-and keep healthy snacks on hand.
RIC
By keeping your blood sugar at a healthy level, you will be
less tempted by junk food around you.
Perhaps the biggest cause of weight gain in the office is
stress. While some people stop eating when under stress, the
majority of people deal with stress by eating food.
When you get stressed out, your body triggers adrenaline
and puts you off balance. Our ancestors needed this adrenaline
put waft balance (~のバランスを崩す)
to run from predators. But since we do not run from angry
~から避ける 内
bosses and demanding clients, we treat nervous energy with
food.
神
(8) A good alternative to eating can be simple exercises that you
08
can do in the office, reading a relaxing book or listening to
music on headphones.
(Adapted from English Journal, Feb. 2004)
CAM
*blood sugar
predators 肉食獣
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① A "typical" British family used to consist of a mother, father and
two children, but in recent years there have been many changes in.
family life. Some of these have been caused by new laws and others
are the result of changes in society. For example, since the law
made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has
increased. In fact one marriage in every three now ends in divorce.
結した3組に1組
結局~に終わる
This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is
now more *tolerant than it used to be of unmarried people,
寛大な かってより以前よりも
非結
*unmarried couples and single parents.
内縁の夫婦
Another change has been caused by the fact that people are
(4)変化
living longer nowadays, and many old people live alone following
寿命が延びる 今日でりま
1人で
the death of their partners. As a result of these changes in the
as a result of ~(~の結果として)
pattern of people's lives, there are many households which consist
of only one person or one adult and children.)
You might think that marriage and the family are not so popular
as they once were. However, the majority of divorced people marry
not so as~~ほど……ない)
SE
again, and they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.
fake responsibility for ~(~に対して責任を負う)
Members of a family-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins
(2)
(3)
keep in touch, but they see less of each other than they used to.
連絡を取り合う
from AtoB(AからBへ)
This is because people often move away from their home town to
work, and so the family becomes scattered. Christmas is the
そのため
分散している (4)
traditional season for reunions. Although the family group is
伝統的な
Although SV(SはVするけれども)
smaller nowadays than it used to be, relatives often travel many
miles in order to spend the holiday together.
~するために
休日
became indepalat ot~(~から独立する)
be been to V (東へにしたがるた
In general, each generation is keen to become independent of
一般的に
世代
parents in establishing its own family unit, and this fact can lead to
(5)
social as well as geographical differences within the larger family
社会的 A as well B地理的な
group. BETAE
(8)
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There are about 10 million old-age "pensioners in Britain, of
(6
whom about 750,000 cannot live entirely independently. The
government gives financial help in the form of a pension but in the
金銭的援助 ~の形で
future it will be more and more difficult for the national economy to
(7)
support the increasing number of the elderly. At the present time.
現在のところ
more than half of all old people are looked after at home. Many
others live in Old People's Homes, which may be private or state-
owned.
*注 tolerant 寛大な
geographical 地理的な
state-owned 国有の
unmarried 結婚していない
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DATE
The children start coming into the school health center after first
~に入って来る
period. "I don't feel well," they complain. "I'm tired." The nurse-sighs.
sit suspect sullenness. Inattention and disorderly behavior in class are
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(6)
そした
generally blamed on emotional problems. But sitting straight and
Alame AB
paying attention
必要とする肉体的な
require a physical strength many children may
no
langer have.
つく
What is the matter with these children? It's not fever, not flu.
Pretending to be ill? Not that either. How can elementary school
pretend to V (V4527286) (1) not either
children be so weakened so early in the day?
It's not just this one school. Last year a survey of school students
(2)
調査
indicated more than half routinely felt under the weather in the
indicate (that)SV(Sがしすることを示す) 決まって (3)体の具合が悪い。
morning. It also suggested a probable cause the children weren't
示唆する 有力な
sleeping enough.
③Why not? "Watching TV," said 28.7 percent of the respondents.
"Studying," said 18.4 percent. "No particular reason," said 31.9 percent.
Actually, there is a particular reason. The children get so little
(4)
少なすぎる
exercise during the day that they aren't tired enough for sleep
at night. The lifestyle of children today gives them no
opportunity for physical effort.
努力
5 This is not good for the spine. Lack of exercise leaves the
backbone so weak it can
背骨
barely support a child's weight. Teachers
who see children slouching when they stand and slumping when they
になる
落ちる
30
35
もはや~ない
Everyone knows that children are less active and therefore not as
strong as they used to be. But no one appreciated just how bad the
評価する
damage was. Recently the teachers were shocked by the results of the
testing of school children's spinal strength.
Spinal strength is important. It's what allows us to walk upright; in
直して
a sense, therefore, it defines us as a species. If elementary schools
ある意味では
(7) define A as B (ASB)
don't start taking children hiking or introducing some other exercise 10
programs, Japan will end up "a country of monkeys."
(8)
The problem is grave but easily solved, say optimists. "If schools
深刻な
have pupils do tug-of-war or sumo once a week," they say, "spinal
生徒
綱引き
strength will soon recover."
週に一度
Maybe so. But can today's children be induced to throw
たぶんそうだろう
induce V
VISAS (AC)
themselves into such activities? Tug-of-war is a great sports day event,
but once a week? As for sumo, it's pretty remote from the lives of most
~に関しては
preteens.
13歳未満の子供
* spine
(9) be remote from~
(~から離れている)
tug-of-war 綱引き
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■次の英文を読み、あとの間に答えなさい。
Tobacco came to Europe from America in the sixteenth
アメリカからヨーロッパに
century, and there are some comical stories connected with
COMING
tobacco's introduction into European society. For example, when
社会
one man walked through the streets of London in the time of
Shakespeare smoking a pipe, people thought that he had caught,
fire and they poured water over him.
catch fire
「火がつく」
Today some people think that this was no bad thing, because
pour A over B 「Bの上にを注ぐ」
if the man stopped smoking as a result of getting wet, then he
get wet 「濡れる」
was lucky. But, of course, we do not know what happened to
that man. All we do know for sure is that millions of people
around the world today are hooked on smoking, and find it
be haded on ~「~に熱中している」
impossible to give up. Some people say that they do not want to
give up smoking, or they will eat more food and put on weight!
さもなければ
So what are governments doing? In the West cigarette
advertising is severely limited, if not banned altogether, and it is
unusual to see someone smoking in
珍しい
now.
a television drama.
Most offices and restaurants have smoking and
nonsmoking sections, and some have banned smoking
10
15
completely. The number of smokers in the West has gone down,
go down 「下がる
but, unfortunately, many young people are not listening to the
official message. In Britain, for example, the number of very
young smokers is rising.
What has gone wrong with the campaigns of governments
and the medical profession? Perhaps because everyone is
against smoking now, it has become the "in thing" to smoke;
はやり
and this appeals to some young people who want to be different.
の人をひきつける
But, funnily enough, governments and doctors in the West
せっけいなことに
have changed their minds about drinking. At one time they
thought it must be bad to drink alcohol. Now doctors are saying
that drinking in moderation might be good for some people.
適度に
2,3~
What they are saying is: stick to a couple of drinks a day;
stick to
do not mix alcohol and driving; and never offer drinks to young
people or to people who might become ill though drinking.
So, one or two drinks may be just what a person needs- or
to use an English idiom, "It may be just what the doctor
ordered". But, on the other hand, we can safely say "that even
Can safely say that SV ~TER
one cigarette is one cigarette too many"! sev
多すぎる
or「どちら」 「すなわち、つまり」「いや~」 「さもなければ」
not A or B 「AもBもない」
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■次の英文を読み, あとの設問に答えなさい。
The first big step in a young person's life is going to college.
The second one is when this person becomes a full-time
employee at a company. This is true for both Japanese and
Americans. Even though they are working for companies, their
lives and careers will be very different. The key to these $
differences is in their attitudes and society's customs about what
a career entails. When asked about their work, most Japanese
businessmen answer with the name of their company first, and
then refer to the work they do. This is because they feel like
fel e SVTS VS
they belong to the company. Americans would answer with their
job title first and then mention the name of their company. For
Americans, what they do is more important than which company
they work for.
When young people in Japan start working as full-time
employees, they are making a lifetime commitment to their
~と関わる
company. They promise to devote themselves to the best
devote oneself to ~~に身を捧げる」
interests of the company. The company intends to take care of
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their employees until they retire. Both sides get a certain
10
15
An amount of
25
30
amount of stability out of this situation. This is quite different
out of
from what a typical businessman in America feels. His attitude is
that the company does not own him, but he only works for it.
He may work for only a few years at one company and then
change jobs. Career advancement does not necessarily take
hot necessarily
place in only one company. Different companies may offer more
1
money or new challenges. This is one reason why, reportedly,
伝えられるところでは
やりがい
the average American has had eight jobs by the time he is forty
years old.
Japanese employees have an almost total devotion to their
全部
companies. Although the official work day finishes around five
o'clock, few workers leave for home until much later... On most
days, there is extra work to be completed. At the same time, the
余分の
employees feel obligated to stay in the office, and it often
feel obligated to V 「Vする義務があると感じる」
becomes habitual. An American office is based on individual
習慣的な
responsibility. Each worker has his own job to do. Other
35 employees do not despise or envy an employee who can leave at
見下す
うらやむ
quitting time. If he must stay after five o'clock to finish some
*
12
job, then he works late. He does this not out of a sense of
obligation to his company but because it is his own responsibility.
quite
eyes quint
住庄高等
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