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| someone says to you、" You work like a *beaver, it means that you work very
| hard、 People know that the beaver is a *hardworking animal It iS usualfy cutting
| down trees {0 build its houses and *dams。 The beaver can nOW be seen in the foreStS
| of North Ameriea and Europe, but it was once "endangered.
5 In the eighteenth century *beaver hats became Very popular。and beaver 『Skins
became very important。 They were called brown *gold and often used 『instead of
| meney。 So people wanted more and more beaver skins。 Sometimes fights to get
more Skins *occurred here and there. A great number of beavers were killed。 At |
the end of the nineteenth century。 there Were very few of them in the forests of
10 | Am After the "law to protect beavers was made, the number of beaVers began
to *increase again. (ゼミオリジナル)
| (注) beaver ビーバー hardworking よく働く dam ダム
| endangered 絶潤の危機にひんした beaver hat 山高帆 シルクハット skin 毛皮
| gold 黄金 instead of .。 …の代わりに occur 起こる law 法律
increase 増える DrのfeCf 斗ヵ
(1) 下線部〇の表す意味を次から選び, 記号で答えなさい。 (4点)
の ”。 アア あなたはビーバーに似ていますね。
イ あなたはとてもよく働きますね。
ウ あなたはビーバーのように働くのが好きですね。 ( )
((⑫ 下線部@②が指すものを。 本文由かから 2 語で抜きだしなさい。 (完答で4点)
PND ) 6 )
