「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(41)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(41)
15. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible
The four travelers walked up to the great gate of Emerald City and rang the bell. After ringing several times, it was opened by the same Guardian of the Gates they had met before.

"What! are you back again?" he asked, in surprise.

"Do you not see us?" answered the Scarecrow.

"But I thought you had gone to visit the Wicked Witch of the West."

"We did visit her," said the Scarecrow.

"And she let you go again?" asked the man, in ①( )( )nder.

"She could not help it, for she is melted," ②( )xplained the Scarecrow.

"Melted! Well, that is good news, indeed," said the man. "Who melted her?"

"It was Dorothy," said the Lion gravely.

"Good gracious!" ③( )xclaimed the man, and he bowed very low indeed before her.

Then he led them into his little room and ④( )ocked the spectacles from the great box on all their eyes, just as he had done before. Afterward they passed on ⑤( )hrough the gate into the Emerald City. When the people heard from the Guardian of the Gates that Dorothy had melted the Wicked Witch of the West, they all gathered around the travelers and followed them in a great ⑥cro( )( ) to the Palace of Oz.

The soldier with the green whiskers was still on ⑦gua( )( ) before the door, but he let them in at once, and they were again met by the beautiful green girl, who showed each of them to their old rooms at once, so they might ⑧res( ) until the Great Oz was ready to ⑨recei( )( )them.

The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the other travelers had come back again, after ⑩( )estroying the Wicked Witch; but Oz made no ⑪repl( ). They thought the Great Wizard would send for them at once, but he did not. They had no word from him the next day, nor the next, nor the next. The waiting was ⑫( )iresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a ⑬( )ashion, after ⑭(undergo / to / them / sending )hardships and slavery. So the Scarecrow at last asked the green girl to take another ⑮( )essage to Oz, saying if he did not let them in to see him at once they would call the Winged Monkeys to help them, and find out whether he kept his ⑯( )romises or not. When the Wizard was given this message he was so ⑰( )rightened that he sent word for them to come to the Throne Room at four minutes after nine o'clock the next morning. He had once met the Winged Monkeys in the Land of the West, and he did not ⑱(meet / wish / them / to) again.

The four travelers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to ⑲besto( ) on him. Dorothy fell asleep only once, and then she dreamed she was in Kansas, where Aunt Em was telling her how glad she was to have her little girl at home again.

※(41)の解答①wonder②explained③exclaimed④locked⑤through ⑥crowd⑦guard⑧rest⑨receive⑩destroying⑪reply⑫tiresome ⑬fashion⑭(sending them to undergo)⑮message⑯promises⑰frightened⑱(wish to meet them)⑲bestow

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(42)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(42)
Promptly at nine o'clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.

Of course each one of them expected to see the Wizard in the ①sha( )( ) he had taken before, and all were greatly surprised when they looked about and saw no one at all in the room. They kept ②clo( )( ) to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the ③( )orms they had seen Oz take.

Presently they heard a ④sole( )( ) Voice, that seemed to come from somewhere near the top of the great dome, and it said:

"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible. Why do you ⑤( )eek me?"

They looked again in every part of the room, and then, seeing no one, Dorothy asked, "Where are you?"

"I am everywhere," answered the Voice, "but to the eyes of common ⑥( )ortals I am invisible. I will now seat myself upon my throne, that you may converse with me." Indeed, the Voice seemed just then to come straight from the throne itself; so they walked toward it and stood in a ⑦ro( ) while Dorothy said:

"We have come to ⑧clai( ) our promise, O Oz."

"What promise?" asked Oz.

"You ⑨(send / promised / me / to ) back to Kansas when the Wicked Witch was destroyed," said the girl.

"And you promised to give me brains," said the Scarecrow.

"And you promised to give me a heart," said the Tin Woodman.

"And you promised to give me courage," said the Cowardly Lion.

"Is the Wicked Witch really destroyed?" asked the Voice, and Dorothy thought it ⑩( )rembled a little.

"Yes," she answered, "I melted her with a bucket of water."

"Dear me," said the Voice, "how sudden! Well, come to me tomorrow, for I must have time ⑪(think / to / over / it )."

"You've had plenty of time already," said the Tin Woodman angrily.

"We shan't wait a day longer," said the Scarecrow.

"You must keep your promises to us!" exclaimed Dorothy.

The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so ⑫fier( )( ) and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner. As it fell with a crash they looked that way, and the next moment all of them were ⑬( )illed with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were. The Tin Woodman, raising his axe, ⑭( )ushed toward the little man and cried out, "Who are you?"

"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," said the little man, in a trembling voice. "But don't ⑮stri( )( ) me--please don't--and I'll do anything you want me to."

Our friends looked at him in surprise and ⑯disma( ).

"I thought Oz was a great Head," said Dorothy.

"And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady," said the Scarecrow.

"And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast," said the Tin Woodman.

"And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire," exclaimed the Lion.

"No, you are all wrong," said the little man meekly. "I have been ⑰( )aking believe."

"Making believe!" cried Dorothy. "Are you not a Great Wizard?"

"Hush, my dear," he said. "Don't speak so loud, or you will be overheard--and I should be ⑱( )uined. I'm ⑲( )upposed to be a Great Wizard."

"And aren't you?" she asked.

"Not a bit of it, my dear; I'm just a ⑳comm( )( ) man."

※(42)の解答①shape②close③forms④solemn⑤seek⑥mortals⑦row⑧claim⑨(promised to send me)⑩trembled⑪(to think it over)⑫fierce⑬filled⑭rushed⑮strike⑯dismay⑰making⑱ruined⑲supposed⑳common

※(42)の解説"but to the eyes of common ⑥mortals I am invisible.とは、「普通の人間の目に私は見えない」となります。

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(43)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(43)
"You're more than that," said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; "you're a humbug."

"Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it ①( )leased him. "I am a humbug."

"But this is ②terri( )( )( )," said the Tin Woodman. "How shall I ever get my heart?"

"Or I my courage?" asked the Lion.

"Or I my brains?" wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his eyes with his coat sleeve.

"My dear friends," said Oz, "I ③pra( ) you not to speak of these little things. Think of me, and the terrible ④troub( )( ) I'm in at being found out."

"Doesn't anyone else know you're a humbug?" asked Dorothy.

"No one knows it but you four--and myself," replied Oz. "I have fooled everyone so long that I thought I should never be found out. It was a great ⑤( )( )stake my ever letting you into the Throne Room. Usually I will not see even my subjects, and so they believe I am something terrible."

"But, I don't understand," said Dorothy, in bewilderment. "How was it that you ⑥( )ppeared to me as a great Head?"

"That was one of my tricks," answered Oz. "Step this way, please, and I will tell you all about it."

He led the way to a small chamber in the rear of the Throne Room, and they all followed him. He ⑦( )ointed to one corner, in which lay the great Head, made out of many thicknesses of paper, and with a carefully painted face.

"This I hung from the ceiling by a wire," said Oz. "I stood behind the screen and pulled a ⑧threa( ), to make the eyes move and the mouth open."

"But how about the voice?" she ⑨( )nquired.

"Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. Here are the other things I used to ⑩decei( )( ) you." He showed the Scarecrow the dress and the mask ⑪(worn / he / when / had ) he seemed to be the lovely Lady. And the Tin Woodman saw that his terrible ⑫(was / Beast / but / nothing ) a lot of skins, sewn together, with slats to keep their sides out. As for the Ball of Fire, the ⑬fals( ) Wizard had hung that also from the ceiling. It was really a ball of cotton, but when oil ⑭(it / upon / poured / was ) the ball burned fiercely.

"Really," said the Scarecrow, "you ought to be ashamed of yourself for being such a humbug."

"I am--I certainly am," answered the little man sorrowfully; "but it was the only thing I could do. Sit down, please, there are plenty of chairs; and I will tell you my story."

So they sat down and listened while he told the following ⑮tal( ).

"I was born in Omaha--"

"Why, that isn't very far from Kansas!" cried Dorothy.

"No, but it's farther from here," he said, ⑯( )haking his head at her sadly. "When I grew up I became a ventriloquist, and at that I was very well ⑰( )rained by a great master. I can ⑱imita( )( ) any kind of a bird or beast." Here he mewed so like a kitten that Toto pricked up his ears and looked everywhere to see where she was. "After a time," continued Oz, "I tired of that, and became a balloonist."

"What is that?" asked Dorothy.

"A man who goes up in a balloon on circus day, so as to ⑲dra( ) a crowd of people together and get them to pay to see the circus," he explained.

"Oh," she said, "I know."

※(43)の解答①pleased ②terrible③pray④trouble⑤mistake ⑥appeared⑦pointed⑧thread⑨inquired⑩deceive⑪(he had worn when)⑫(Beast was nothing but)⑬false⑭(was poured upon it)⑮tale⑯shaking⑰trained⑱imitate⑲draw

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(44)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(44)
"Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up ①abo( )( ) the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon ②( )loating over a strange and beautiful country.

"It came down ③( )radually, and I was not hurt a bit. But I found myself in the midst of a strange people, who, seeing me come from the clouds, thought I was a great Wizard. Of course I let them think so, because they were afraid of me, and promised to ④(wished / anything / do / I ) them to.

"Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ⑤( )rdered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well. Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name ⑥(better / fit / put / I ) green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green."

"But isn't everything here green?" asked Dorothy.

"No more than in any other city," replied Oz; "but when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you. The Emerald City was built a great many years ago, for I was a young man when the balloon brought me here, and I am a very old man now. But my people have ⑦( )orn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City, and it ⑧( )ertainly is a beautiful place, abounding in jewels and precious metals, and every good thing that is needed to make one happy. I have been good to the people, and they like me; but ever since this Palace was built, I have shut myself up and would not see any of them.

"One of my greatest ⑨( )ears was the Witches, for while I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the Witches were really able to do wonderful things. There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West. Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I knew they would do me no harm; but the Witches of the East and West were terribly wicked, and ⑩(not / had / thought / they ) I was more powerful than they themselves, they would surely have destroyed me. As it was, I lived in ⑪( )eadly fear of them for many years; so you can imagine how pleased I was when I heard your house had fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East. When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do ⑫awa( ) with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises."

"I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy.

"Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must ⑬adm( )( )."

"Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow.

"You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. ⑭Experie( )( )( ) is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get."

"That may all be true," said the Scarecrow, "but I shall be very unhappy ⑮( )( )less you give me brains."

The false Wizard looked at him carefully.

"Well," he said with a ⑯sig( ), "I'm not much of a magician, as I said; but if you will come to me tomorrow morning, I will stuff your head with brains. I cannot tell you how to use them, ⑰how( )( )( )( ); you must find that out for yourself."

"Oh, thank you--thank you!" cried the Scarecrow. "I'll find a way to use them, never fear!"

"But how about my courage?" asked the Lion ⑱( )( )xiously.

"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is ⑲( )( )nfidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."

"Perhaps I have, but I'm scared just the same," said the Lion. "I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the ⑳sor( ) of courage that makes one forget he is afraid."

※(44)の解答①above②floating③gradually④(do anything I wished)⑤ordered⑥(fit better I put)⑦worn⑧certainly⑨fears⑩(had they not thought)⑪deadly⑫away⑬admit⑭Experience ⑮unless⑯sigh⑰however⑱anxiously ⑲confidence⑳sort

※(44)の解説
to make the name ⑥(fit better I put) green spectacles on all the peopleは、「名前がぴったり合うように私はすべての人たちに緑色の眼鏡をかけさせた」となります。
When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do ⑫away with the other Witchは、「あんたたちが私のところに来たとき、もうひとりの魔女をやっつけてくれさえするなら何でも喜んで約束しようとしたよ」という意味です。do away withは「～を除く、～を殺す」という意味の重要熟語です。

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(45)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(45)
"Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow," replied Oz.

"How about my heart?" asked the Tin Woodman.

"Why, as for that," answered Oz, "I think you are ①wron( ) to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in ②luc( ) not to have a heart."

"That must be a matter of ③opini( )( )," said the Tin Woodman. "For my part, I will ④bea( ) all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart."

"Very well," answered Oz meekly. "Come to me tomorrow and you shall have a heart. I have played Wizard for so many years that I ⑤(continue / may / well / as) the part a little longer."

"And now," said Dorothy, "how am I to get back to Kansas?"

"We shall have to think about that," replied the little man. "Give me two or three days to ⑥( )onsider the matter and I'll try to find a way to carry you over the desert. In the ⑥( )eantime you shall all be treated as my guests, and while you live in the Palace my people will wait upon you and obey your slightest wish. There is only one thing I ask in ⑦( )eturn for my help--such as it is. You must keep my secret and tell no one I am a humbug."

They agreed to say nothing of what they had learned, and went back to their rooms in high ⑧( )pirits. Even Dorothy had hope that "The Great and Terrible Humbug," as she called him, would find a way to send her back to Kansas, and if he did she was willing to ⑨forgi( )( ) him everything.

16. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
Next morning the Scarecrow said to his friends:

"Congratulate me. I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When I ⑩(I / return / be / shall ) as other men are."

"I have always liked you as you were," said Dorothy simply.

"It is kind of you to like a Scarecrow," he replied. "But surely you will think more of me when you hear the ⑪splend( )( ) thoughts my new brain is going to turn out." Then he said good-bye to them all in a ⑫( )heerful voice and went to the Throne Room, where he rapped upon the door.

"Come in," said Oz.

The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting down by the window, ⑬( )ngaged in deep thought.

"I have come for my brains," remarked the Scarecrow, a little ⑭( )neasily.

"Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please," replied Oz. "You must ⑮excu( )( ) me for taking your head off, but I shall have to do it in order to put your brains in their ⑯prop( )( ) place."

"That's all right," said the Scarecrow. "You are quite welcome to take my head off, as long as it will be a better one when ⑰(on / it / put / you ) again."

So the Wizard unfastened his head and ⑱( )mptied out the straw. Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles. Having shaken them together ⑲( )horoughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow's head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place.

※(45)の解答①wrong ②luck③opinion④bear⑤(may as well continue)⑥consider⑥meantime⑦return⑧spirits ⑨forgive⑩(return I shall be)⑪splendid⑫cheerful⑬engaged⑭uneasily⑮excuse⑯proper⑰(you put it on)⑱emptied⑲thoroughly

※(45)の解説
I have played Wizard for so many years that I ⑤(may as well continue) the part a little longer." は、「長年魔法使いの役をしてきたのだから、もう少し続けてもよかろう」くらいの意味になります。

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(46)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(46)
When he had fastened the Scarecrow's head on his body again he said to him, "Hereafter you will be a great man, for I have given you a lot of bran-new brains."

The Scarecrow was both pleased and proud at the ①( )ulfillment of his greatest wish, and having thanked Oz warmly he went back to his friends.

Dorothy looked at him ②( )uriously. His head was quite bulged out at the top with brains.

"How do you feel?" she asked.

"I feel wise indeed," he answered earnestly. "When I get used to my brains I shall know everything."

"Why are those needles and pins ③( )ticking out of your head?" asked the Tin Woodman.

"That is ④pro( )( ) that he is sharp," remarked the Lion.

"Well, I must go to Oz and get my heart," said the Woodman. So he walked to the Throne Room and ⑤( )nocked at the door.

"Come in," called Oz, and the Woodman entered and said, "I have come for my heart."

"Very well," answered the little man. "But I shall have to cut a hole in your breast, so I can put your heart in the right place. I hope it won't hurt you."

"Oh, no," answered the Woodman. "I shall not ⑥(all / feel / at / it )."

So Oz brought a pair of tinsmith's shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodman's breast. Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.

"Isn't it a beauty?" he asked.

"It is, indeed!" replied the Woodman, who was greatly pleased. "But is it a kind heart?"

"Oh, very!" answered Oz. He put the heart in the Woodman's breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it ⑦( )eatly together where it had been cut.

"There," said he; "now you have a heart that any man ⑧(proud / might / of / be ). I'm sorry I had to put a patch on your breast, but it really couldn't be helped."

"Never mind the patch," exclaimed the happy Woodman. "I am very ⑨grate( )( )( ) to you, and shall never forget your kindness."

"Don't speak of it," replied Oz.

Then the Tin Woodman went back to his friends, who wished him every joy on account of his good fortune.

The Lion now walked to the Throne Room and knocked at the door.

"Come in," said Oz.

"I have come for my courage," announced the Lion, entering the room.

"Very well," answered the little man; "I will get it for you."

He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the ⑩( )ontents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved. Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he did not like it, the Wizard said:

"Drink."

"What is it?" asked the Lion.

"Well," answered Oz, "if it were inside of you, it would be courage. You know, of course, that courage is always inside one; so that this really cannot be called courage until you have ⑪( )wallowed it. Therefore I advise you to drink it as soon as possible."

The Lion hesitated no longer, but drank till the dish was empty.

"How do you feel now?" asked Oz.

"Full of courage," ⑫( )eplied the Lion, who went joyfully back to his friends to tell them of his good fortune.

Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his ⑬( )uccess in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted. "How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done? It was easy to make the Scarecrow and the Lion and the Woodman happy, because they ⑭( )magined I could do anything. But it will ⑮( )ake more than imagination to carry Dorothy back to Kansas, and I'm sure I don't know how it can be done."

17. How the Balloon Was Launched
For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and ⑯( )ontented. The Scarecrow told them there were wonderful thoughts in his head; but he would not say what they were because he knew no one could understand them but himself. When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had ⑰( )wned when he was made of flesh. The Lion declared he was afraid of nothing on earth, and would gladly ⑱fac( ) an army or a dozen of the fierce Kalidahs.

Thus each of the little party was ⑲( )atisfied except Dorothy, who ⑳( )onged more than ever to get back to Kansas.

※(46)の解答①fulfillment②curiously③sticking④proof⑤knocked ⑥(feel it at all)⑦neatly ⑧(might be proud of)⑨grateful⑩contents ⑪swallowed⑫replied⑬success⑭imagined⑮take⑯contented⑰owned⑱face⑲satisfied⑳longed

※(46)の解説
Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his ⑬success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted. "How can I help being a humbug," he said,における、
"How can I help being a humbug,"とは「どうして詐欺師であることをやめられようか？」という反語表現で、ニセモノの「脳みそ」や「勇気」を与えた成功にほくそ笑んでいるわけです。ここでのhelpはもちろん「助ける」ではなく「こらえる」といった意味で、ジーニアス英和大辞典には
How can I help it?（そういうことにならないようにするには）どうしたらよいだろうか。という用例が掲載されています。

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(47)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(47)
On the fourth day, to her great joy, Oz sent for her, and when she entered the Throne Room he ①( )reeted her pleasantly:

"Sit down, my dear; I think I have found the way to ②(of / you / get / out ) this country."

"And back to Kansas?" she asked eagerly.

"Well, I'm not sure about Kansas," said Oz, "for I haven't the faintest ③noti( )( ) which way it lies. But the first thing to do is to cross the desert, and then it should be easy to ④(your / find / home / way)."

"How can I cross the desert?" she inquired.

"Well, I'll tell you what I think," said the little man. "You see, when I came to this country it was in a balloon. You also came through the air, being carried by a cyclone. So I believe the best way to get across the desert will be through the air. Now, it is quite ⑤beyo( )( ) my powers to make a cyclone; but I've been thinking the matter over, and I believe I can make a balloon."

"How?" asked Dorothy.

"A balloon," said Oz, "is made of silk, which is ⑥( )oated with glue to keep the gas in it. I have plenty of silk in the Palace, so it will be no ⑦( )rouble to make the balloon. But in all this country there is no gas to fill the balloon with, to make it ⑧flo( )( )."

"If it won't float," remarked Dorothy, "it will be of ⑨(to / no / us /use )."

"True," answered Oz. "But there is another way to make it float, which is to fill it with hot air. Hot air isn't as good as gas, for if the air ⑩( )( )ould get cold the balloon would come down in the desert, and we should be lost."

"We!" exclaimed the girl. "Are you going with me?"

"Yes, of course," replied Oz. "I am tired of being such a humbug. If I should go out of this Palace my people would soon discover I am not a Wizard, and then they would be vexed with me for having ⑪( )eceived them. So I have to stay shut up in these rooms all day, and it gets tiresome. I'd much rather go back to Kansas with you and be in a circus again."

"I shall be glad to have your ⑫compa( )( )," said Dorothy.

"Thank you," he answered. "Now, if you will help me ⑬se( ) the silk together, we will begin to work on our balloon."

So Dorothy took a ⑭need( )( ) and ⑮thre( )( ), and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together. First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them. It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.

Then Oz painted it on the inside with a coat of thin glue, to make it airtight, after which he ⑯( )( )nounced that the balloon was ready.

"But we must have a basket to ride in," he said. So he sent the soldier with the green whiskers for a big clothes basket, which he fastened with many ropes to the ⑰bott( )( ) of the balloon.

When it was all ready, Oz sent word to his people that he was going to make a visit to a great brother Wizard who lived in the clouds. The news ⑱( )pread rapidly throughout the city and everyone came to see the wonderful sight.

Oz ordered the balloon carried out in front of the Palace, and the people ⑲( )azed upon it with much curiosity. The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fire of it, and Oz held the bottom of the balloon over the fire so that the hot air that arose from it would be caught in the silken bag. Gradually the balloon ⑳( )welled out and rose into the air, until finally the basket just touched the ground.

※(47)の解答①greeted ②(get you out of )③notion④(find your way home)⑤beyond⑥coated⑦trouble⑧float⑨(no use to us )⑩should ⑪deceived⑫company⑭needle ⑮thread⑯announced⑰bottom ⑱spread ⑲gazed⑳swelled

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(48)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(48)
Then Oz got into the basket and said to all the people in a loud voice:

"I am now going away to make a visit. While I am gone the Scarecrow will rule over you. I ①( )( )mmand you to obey him as you would me."

The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it to the ground, for the air within it was hot, and this made it so much lighter in weight than the air without that it pulled hard to rise into the sky.

"Come, Dorothy!" cried the Wizard. "Hurry up, or the balloon will fly away."

"I can't find Toto anywhere," replied Dorothy, who did not wish to leave her little dog ②( )ehind. Toto had run into the crowd to bark at a kitten, and Dorothy at last found him. She picked him up and ran towards the balloon.

She was within a few steps of it, and Oz was holding out his hands to help her into the basket, when, crack! went the ropes, and the balloon ③ros( ) into the air without her.

"Come back!" she ④( )creamed. "I want to go, too!"

"I can't come back, my dear," called Oz from the basket. "Good-bye!"

"Good-bye!" shouted everyone, and all eyes were turned ⑤upwa( )( ) to where the Wizard was riding in the basket, rising every moment farther and farther into the sky.

And that was the last any of them ever saw of Oz, the Wonderful Wizard, though he may have reached Omaha safely, and be there now, for all we know. But the people remembered him lovingly, and said to one another:

"Oz was always our friend. When he was here he built for us this beautiful Emerald City, and now he is gone he has left the Wise Scarecrow to rule over us."

Still, for many days they ⑥( )rieved over the loss of the Wonderful Wizard, and would not be ⑦( )omforted.

18. Away to the South
Dorothy wept bitterly at the ⑧( )assing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon. And she also felt sorry at losing Oz, and so did her companions.

The Tin Woodman came to her and said:

"Truly I should be ungrateful if I failed to ⑨mou( )( ) for the man who gave me my lovely heart. I should like to cry a little because Oz is gone, if you will kindly wipe away my tears, so that I shall not rust."

"With ⑩( )leasure," she answered, and brought a towel at once. Then the Tin Woodman wept for several minutes, and she watched the tears carefully and wiped them away with the towel. When he had finished, he thanked her kindly and oiled himself thoroughly with his jeweled oil-can, to ⑪gua( )( ) against mishap.

The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him. "For," they said, "there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man." And, so ⑫(knew / far / they / as), they were quite right.

The morning after the balloon had gone up with Oz, the four travelers met in the Throne Room and talked matters over. The Scarecrow sat in the big throne and the others stood ⑬( )( )spectfully before him.

"We are not so unlucky," said the new ruler, "for this Palace and the Emerald City belong to us, and we can do just as we ⑭plea( )( ). When I remember that a short time ago I was up on a pole in a farmer's cornfield, and that now I am the ruler of this beautiful City, I am quite ⑮( )atisfied with my lot."

"I also," said the Tin Woodman, "am well-pleased with my new heart; and, really, that was the only thing I wished in all the world."

"For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver," said the Lion modestly.

"If Dorothy would only be contented to live in the Emerald City," ⑯( )ontinued the Scarecrow, "we might all be happy together."

"But I don't want to live here," cried Dorothy. "I want to go to Kansas, and live with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry."

"Well, then, what can be done?" inquired the Woodman.

The Scarecrow decided to think, and he thought so hard that the pins and needles began ⑰(of / out / stick / to ) his brains. Finally he said:

"Why not call the Winged Monkeys, and ask them to carry you over the desert?"

"I never thought of that!" said Dorothy ⑱( )oyfully. "It's just the thing. I'll go at once for the Golden Cap."

When she brought it into the Throne Room she spoke the magic words, and soon the band of Winged Monkeys flew in through the open window and stood beside her.

"This is the second time you have called us," said the Monkey King, ⑲( )owing before the little girl. "What do you wish?"

"I want you to fly with me to Kansas," said Dorothy.

But the Monkey King ⑳( )hook his head.

※(48)の解答①command②behind③rose④screamed⑤upward⑥grieved⑦comforted⑧passing⑨mourn⑩pleasure⑪guard And, so ⑫(far as they knew)⑬respectfully⑭please⑮satisfied⑯continued ⑰(to stick out of)⑱joyfully⑲bowing⑳shook

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(49)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(49)
"That cannot be done," he said. "We belong to this country alone, and cannot leave it. There has never been a Winged Monkey in Kansas yet, and I ①( )uppose there never will be, for they don't belong there. We shall be glad to ②serv( ) you in any way in our power, but we cannot cross the desert. Good-bye."

And with another bow, the Monkey King ③( )pread his wings and flew away through the window, followed by all his band.

Dorothy was ready to cry with disappointment. "I have ④( )asted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose," she said, "for the Winged Monkeys cannot help me."

"It is certainly too bad!" said the tender-hearted Woodman.

The Scarecrow was thinking again, and his head bulged out so horribly that Dorothy ⑤(would / feared / burst / it).

"Let us call in the soldier with the green whiskers," he said, "and ask his advice."

So the soldier was ⑥( )ummoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for while Oz was alive he never was allowed to come farther than the door.

"This little girl," said the Scarecrow to the soldier, "wishes to cross the desert. How can she do so?"

"I cannot tell," answered the soldier, "for nobody has ever crossed the desert, unless it is Oz himself."

"Is there no one who can help me?" asked Dorothy ⑦( )arnestly.

"Glinda might," he ⑧( )uggested.

"Who is Glinda?" ⑨( )nquired the Scarecrow.

"The Witch of the South. She is the most powerful of all the Witches, and rules over the Quadlings. Besides, her castle stands on the edge of the desert, so she may know a way to cross it."

"Glinda is a Good Witch, isn't she?" asked the child.

"The Quadlings think she is good," said the soldier, "and she is kind to everyone. I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how ⑩(keep / to / in / young ) spite of the many years she has lived."

"How can I get to her castle?" asked Dorothy.

"The road is straight to the South," he answered, "but it is said to be full ⑪(travelers / of / to / dangers ). There are wild beasts in the woods, and a ⑬rac( ) of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country. For this reason none of the Quadlings ever come to the Emerald City."

The soldier then left them and the Scarecrow said:

"It seems, in spite of dangers, that the best thing Dorothy can do is to travel to the Land of the South and ask Glinda to help her. For, of course, if Dorothy stays here she will never get back to Kansas."

"You must have been thinking again," ⑭( )emarked the Tin Woodman.

"I have," said the Scarecrow.

"I shall go with Dorothy," declared the Lion, "for I am ⑮( )ired of your city and ⑯lon( ) for the woods and the country again. I am really a wild beast, you know. Besides, Dorothy will need someone to protect her."

"That is true," ⑰( )greed the Woodman. "My axe may be of service to her; so I also will go with her to the Land of the South."

"When shall we start?" asked the Scarecrow.

"Are you going?" they asked, in surprise.

"Certainly. If it wasn't for Dorothy I should never have had brains. She ⑱( )ifted me from the pole in the cornfield and brought me to the Emerald City. So my good luck is all ⑲( )ue to her, and I shall never leave her until she starts back to Kansas for good and all."

"Thank you," said Dorothy gratefully. "You are all very kind to me. But I should like to start as soon as possible."

"We shall go tomorrow morning," returned the Scarecrow. "So now let us all get ready, for it will be a long ⑳( )ourney."

※(49)の解答①suppose②serve③spread④wasted⑤(feared it would burst)⑥summoned⑦earnestly⑧suggested⑨inquired⑩(to keep young in)⑪(of dangers to travelers)⑬race⑭remarked⑮tired⑯long⑰agreed⑱lifted⑲due⑳journey

「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(50)

　著作権の切れた童話「オズの魔法使い」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )にアルファベットの一文字を入れて文脈に合う単語を完成してください。スラッシュで区切られた整序問題は文の意味が通るように並べ替えてください。
(50)
19. Attacked by the Fighting Trees
The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good-bye, and they all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who had ①(them / walked / as / with ) far as the gate. When the Guardian of the Gate saw them again he ②( )ondered greatly that they could leave the beautiful City to get into new trouble. But he at ③onc( ) unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.

"You are now our ④( )uler," he said to the Scarecrow; "so you must come back to us as soon as possible."

"I ⑤( )( )rtainly shall if I am able," the Scarecrow replied; "but I must help Dorothy to get home, first."

As Dorothy bade the good-natured Guardian a last ⑥( )arewell she said:

"I have been very kindly ⑦( )reated in your lovely City, and everyone has been good to me. I cannot tell you how grateful I am."

"Don't try, my dear," he answered. "We should like to keep you with us, but if it is your wish to return to Kansas, I hope you will find a way." He ⑧(opened / then / gate / the) of the outer wall, and they walked forth and started upon their journey.

The sun shone brightly as our friends ⑨( )urned their faces toward the Land of the South. They were all in the best of spirits, and laughed and chatted together. Dorothy was once more ⑩( )illed with the hope of getting home, and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were glad to be of use to her. As for the Lion, he ⑪( )niffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the country again, while Toto ran around them and ⑫( )hased the moths and butterflies, barking merrily all the time.

"City life does not ⑬( )gree with me at all," remarked the Lion, as they walked along at a brisk pace. "I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am ⑭( )nxious for a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown."

They now turned and took a last look at the Emerald City. All ⑮(was / could / they / see ) a mass of towers and steeples behind the green walls, and high up above everything the spires and dome of the Palace of Oz.

"Oz was not such a bad Wizard, after all," said the Tin Woodman, as he ⑯(rattling / heart / his / felt ) around in his breast.

"He knew how to give me brains, and very good brains, too," said the Scarecrow.

"If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me," added the Lion, "he would have been a ⑰( )rave man."

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she ⑱( )orgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

The first day's journey was through the green fields and bright flowers that ⑲( )tretched about the Emerald City on every side. They slept that night on the grass, with nothing but the stars over them; and they ⑳( )ested very well indeed.

※(50)の解答①(walked with them as)②wondered③once④ruler⑤certainly⑥farewell⑦treated⑧(then opened the gate)⑨turned⑩filled⑪sniffed⑫chased⑬agree⑭anxious⑮(they could was see) ⑯(felt his heart rattling)⑰brave⑱forgave⑲stretched⑳rested

※(50)の解説"City life does not ⑬agree with me at all,"とは、「街の暮らしは俺に合わない」という意味になります。こういったagreeの使い方は食品や医薬品に関してもあって、Stop taking the medicine if it doesn't agree with you.という例文がマクミラン英英辞典にありました。