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7 次の(1),(2)の英文を読んで、それぞれの問いに答えなさい。
(1) ユタカ (Yutaka) とジョージ (George)は, 2人の住むみつば市 (Mitsuba City) について調査し,英語でプレ
ゼンテーション(presentation)を行いました。 ユタカがスライド(slide)を使って発表をしています。
Hello, I'm Yutaka. I live in Mitsuba City and have lived there since I was born. There
are some big parks in the city, and I often played in them with my friends when I was a
child. I like my city very much.
people than before. Look at Slide 1.
Last month, I saw news about Mitsuba City on TV. It said that our city had fewer
This shows the number of people in Mitsuba City.
There were more than 300,000 people in 2000. The number became larger until 2010, but
after that, it started to decrease. In 2020, about 280,000 people lived there. Why did the
number of people become small?
To find out the reasons, I read some books and checked some websites on the Internet.
I got some ideas. Look at Slide 2. This shows the number of people in Wakaba City and
Aoba City. These cities are next to Mitsuba City. You can see that these two cities had
more people in 2020 than in 2000.
In fact, Wakaba City started some plans to help parents in 2014. For example, parents
don't have to pay money when they take their sick children to the hospital. This means
parents can take care of their sick children ( A ) worrying about money.
In Aoba City, a new train station was built in 2008. Since then, the city has more
convenience stores, clothes shops, and restaurants. Living in Aoba City became more
convenient, so more people started to live there. Look at Slide 3. You can see the number
of each type of shop was larger in 2020 than in 2000. Now, Aoba City has become one of
the most popular cities among people.
Mitsuba City is a good city, but I don't think it has many attractive points. Parents
still have to pay a lot of money to take care of their sick children. Also, there are not
many shops and restaurants in the city. I think Mitsuba City should have more attractive
points like Wakaba City and Aoba City. I want more people to live in Mitsuba City in
the future.
Slide 2
Slide 3
(people)
180,000
Covenience
Stores
170,000
160,000
Clothes
Shops
150,000
Restaurants
140,000
2000
2005
Wakaba
2010 2015 2020
--- Aoba
(year)
0
10
20 30 40 50
(number)
■ 2000 m 2020
(注) be born 生まれる
play 遊ぶ
decrease 減少する
in fact 実際は
attractive 魅力的な
find out
take care of
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news ニュース
~を探り出す
~
〜の世話をする
fewer より少ない
website ウェブサイト
convenient 便利な
point
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