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One of the most surprising things to Japanese people in England is that nobody
seems to take any notice of traffic signals. Drivers, of course, obey the signals,
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but pedestrians cross the streets regardless of them. However, gradually I found
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there were some rules in it. Pedestrians never cross on the red light when cars
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5 are approaching them They ignore the signals only when cars are in the
distance or the road is deserted. Even policemen sometimes (7) take no notice of
red signals. It means this violation of signals is, in a sense, admitted officially.
It took me quite a while to get used to this custom, because I had been trained in
Japan to obey the traffic signals automatically. But even in Japan I had felt
10 ridiculous waiting for a long time until the signal turned green when there was no
traffic at all, especially on cold, windy winter nights.
It's not right to say that this is an English idea of freedom that English people
are unlawful either: Soon I started thinking that it was a good idea because
pedestrians don't have to wait when there is no traffic. They (1) give way to cars
15 when the signal is red, but they don't waste time in just waiting for nothing on the
street.)
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English people have a very rational way of thinking. It is a pedestrian's
responsibility whether he goes onto the road or not on the red light. The English
take notice of laws if they are reasonable, but they always try to avoid
20 unnecessary authority as much as possible whenever and wherever they can
Freedom always goes together with ( a ). English people, I think, enjoy more
freedom than Japanese in various ways. But at the same time, they take more
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responsibility. Personal decision is very important in England whereas it often

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causes trouble in Japan.
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I don't want to say here that ignoring traffic signals is a symbol of freedom. It
is necessary to obey traffic signals in places where there is heavy traffic all day
long like in Japan. What I want to say is that English people don't like the idea
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of (5) conformity and try to be as free as possible.
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問1 下線部(ア) take no notice of に最も近い意味を持つ動詞を、本文中から1つ選ん
で書き出しなさい。
問2 下線部(イ) give way to の意味に最も近いものをad から1つ選びなさい。
.a. to allow something@somebody to go
first
b. to allow yourself to be very strongly affected by an emotion to respecte
c. to be replaced by something
d. to try to do something that you want to do
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問3 空所(a)に入るものとして最も適したものを a~d から1つ選びなさい。
a. authority
c. punishment
b. necessity
d. responsibility
問4 下線部 (ウ) conformity の意味として最も適したものをa~ dから1つ選びなさい。
a. behaviour or actions that break the accepted rules of society
b. behaviour or actions that change the accepted rules of society
c. behaviour or actions that criticise the accepted rules of society
d. behaviour or actions that follow the accepted rules of society