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速読問題 次の英文を2.5分で読んで, 1. の問いに答えなさい。
Sports shoes for children, who want to run fast. are now enjoying great popularity in Japan.
Children play all sorts of sports in Japanese primary and secondary schools, and every school
also holds a sports day as a special school event. Both short and long distance races are run
around curved tracks in the school grounds but the "centrifugal force can make
it hard to
5 stay on your feet when racing around the sharp bends on both ends of the track, and some
children do slip and fall. As a matter of fact. wearing these shoes won't make them run faster.
The shoes do, however. grip firmly to the ground and that makes the children less likely to
slip and better able to run their best. So why do they grip the ground so well?
The secret is in the "sole. A normal grip pattern consists of "symmetrical lines which cross
10 the sole horizontally. On thes hoes, though, the lines are not "parallel, and there are rubber
"studs on the soles. and they are positioned differently. The tracks used in athletics are
"regulated by *the International Association of Athletics Federations, and one of the rules is
that you must run around the track 'anticlockwise. Think about what happens when you run
around a bend anticlockwise. Which parts of your feet take the most pressure? The left
15 sides on both feet, and those places which take the most pressure are also the parts most likely
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to slip, and so the shoes are designed with a number of studs in these important areas.
studs are each about one millimeter long and a centimeter in diameter. They put studs on
the left side of each sole, which grip the ground tightly. The precise number varies
depending on the size of the shoe. They are placed on the outer side of the left shoe and the
20 inner side of the right shoe.
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1. この英文で話題となっているスポーツシューズの靴底を表す絵として最も適当なものを. 次の
a. ~d. から選びなさい。
(5点)
b.
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4. 下線部(3)が指すものを, 日本語で簡潔に説明しなさい。
left
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d.
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5. 下線部 (4)が指すものとして最も適当なものをa~d. から一つ選びなさい。
a. Japanese primary and secondary schools
b. mothers who buy their children's shoes
c. the children who want to run fast
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精読問題もう一度英文を読んで,次の問いに答えなさい。
2. 文法 下線部 (1) の和訳として最も適当なものをa~d. から一つ選びなさい。
(6点)
a. しかし, 遠心力のせいでトラックの両端のところでぴったり止まることはむずかしく、 中には
ラインからずれてしまったり 転んだりする子もいる。
b. しかし, 遠心力のせいでトラックの両端の鋭いカーブでは靴が足に強く密着し, 中にはつまず
いたり倒れたりする子もいる。
c. しかし, 遠心力のせいでトラックの両端の鋭いカーブを回るときにしっかりと姿勢を保つこと
ができなくなり、 中には滑って転んでしまう子もいる。
d. しかし､遠心力のせいで足はトラックをはみ出してしまい, トラックの両端では大きく折れ曲
がって, 中には倒れ込みながらゴールする子もいる。
3. 下線部(2) の and は何と何とを結びつけていますか。 それぞれを英語で答えなさい。
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d. the developers of these shoes
6.全体把握 本文の内容と合っているものにはT, 合っていないものにはFと答えなさい。 (各1点)
(ア) Sports shoes for children have become a great hit in Japan.
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(イ) Children in Japan run around curved tracks in the school grounds every day. (
(ウ) Sports shoes actually make the children run faster.
(エ) The studs on the soles are all different sizes.
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(オ) Different sizes of sports shoes have different numbers of studs.
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