素早く外国語を習得する才能に恵まれた人がいるとはいえ、学習方法さえ誤らなければ誰でも外国語は使えるようになります。肝心なのはやさしいものを確実に習得してから難しいものに進むことで、童話が読めない状態で大人向けの読み物に取り組んでも無駄な苦労を重ねるだけです。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」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。
コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。ドリトル先生航海記で学ぶ語彙・読解をクリックするとまとめて読めますのでご利用下さい。
いままでにここのブログで連載した「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ頻出語彙と読解、ドリトル先生アフリカゆきで学ぶ語彙・読解もクリックすると全文読めます。
訳本は三点とも岩波少年文庫からいいものが出ています。たとえ数分でも自力で英文を理解するよう努力してからの訳本の利用がおすすめです。考えずに訳文を暗記するような横着をしていては英語思考力が伸ばせません。
※(64)の解答①(yelled)②(ran for our lives)③(it moved apart from) ⑤(describe)⑥(though)⑦(which to tell you)⑧(knowing how much this)⑨(gazed)⑩(revealed)⑪(shield his eyes from)⑫(whisper)⑬(with his hand outstretched)⑭(heard old Bumpo sniffle)⑮(buried)⑯(last) ⑰(been so glad in)⑱(face lit up with)⑲(owe)⑳(for)
(65)
Then the Doctor ①(to / who / signaled / Bumpo) came forward with the nuts and water. But Long Arrow neither ate nor drank. Taking the supplies with a nod of thanks, he turned and carried them into the inner dimness of the cave. We followed him.
Inside we found nine other Indians, men, women and boys, lying on the rock floor in a ②**(dreadful : gradual : conspicuous : tame) state of thinness and exhaustion.
Some had their eyes closed, as if dead. Quickly the Doctor went round them all and listened to their hearts. They were all alive; but one woman was too weak even to ③(feet / her / stand / upon).
At a word from the Doctor, Chee-Chee and Polynesia sped off into the jungles after more fruit and water.
While Long Arrow was handing round what food we had to his ④*(prevailing : cursing : offending : starving) friends, we suddenly heard a sound outside the cave. Turning about we saw, clustered at the entrance, the band of Indians who had met us so inhospitably at the beach.
They peered into the dark cave cautiously at first. But as soon as they saw Long Arrow and the other Indians with us, they came rushing in, laughing, ⑤(their / with / clapping / hands) joy and jabbering away at a tremendous rate.
Long Arrow explained to the Doctor that the nine Indians we had found in the cave with him were two families who had ⑥*(founded : accompanied : recognized : surrounded) him into the mountains to help him gather medicine-plants. And while they had been searching for a kind of moss—good for indigestion—which grows only inside of damp caves, the great rock slab had slid down and shut them in. Then for two weeks they had lived on the medicine-moss and such fresh water as could be found dripping from the damp walls of the cave. The other Indians on the island had given them up for lost and ⑦***(dictated : mourned : mingled : evaporated) them as dead; and they were now very surprised and happy to find their relatives alive.
When Long Arrow turned to the newcomers and told them in their own language that it was the ⑧(man / white / had / who) found and freed their relatives, they gathered round John Dolittle, all talking at once and beating their breasts.
Long Arrow said they were ⑨*(replacing : apologizing : attracting : containing) and trying to tell the Doctor how sorry they were that they had seemed unfriendly to him at the beach. They had never seen a white man before and had really been afraid of him—especially when they ⑩(with / conversing / him / saw) the porpoises. They had thought he was the Devil, they said.
Then they went outside and looked at the great stone we had thrown down, big as a meadow; and they walked round and round it, pointing to the break running through the middle and wondering how the ⑪**(border : trick : illusion : shortage) of felling it was done.
Travelers who have since visited Spidermonkey Island tell me that that huge stone slab is now one of the ⑫*(complete : regular : dull : narrow) sights of the island. And that the Indian guides, when showing it to visitors, always tell THEIR story of how it came there. They say that when the Doctor found that the rocks had entrapped his friend, Long Arrow, he was so angry that he ripped the ⑬(in / mountain / with / halves) his bare hands and let him out.
THE SECOND CHAPTER. "THE MEN OF THE MOVING LAND"
FROM that time on the Indians' ⑭*(arrangement : solution : analysis : treatment) of us was very different. We were invited to their village for a feast to ⑮*(prevent : celebrate : suspect : disturb) the recovery of the lost families. And after we had made a litter from saplings to carry the sick woman in, we all started off down the mountain.
On the way the Indians told Long Arrow ⑯(which / to / appeared / something) be sad news, for on hearing it, his face grew very grave. The Doctor asked him what was wrong. And Long Arrow said he had just been ⑰(examined : informed : estimated : rescued) that the chief of the tribe, an old man of eighty, had died early that morning.
"That," Polynesia ⑱*(whispered : satisfied : demanded : supplied) in my ear, "must have been what they went back to the village for, when the messenger fetched them from the beach.—Remember?"
"What did he die of?" asked the Doctor.
"He died of cold," said Long Arrow.
Indeed, now that the sun was setting, we were all shivering ourselves.
"This is a serious thing," said the Doctor to me. "The island is still in the grip of that wretched ⑲**(volcano : context : current : glory) flowing southward. We will have to look into this to-morrow. If nothing can be done about it, the Indians had better take to canoes and leave the island. The ⑳(being / chance / wrecked / of) will be better than getting frozen to death in the ice-floes of the Antarctic."
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コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。ドリトル先生航海記で学ぶ語彙・読解をクリックするとまとめて読めますのでご利用下さい。
いままでにここのブログで連載した「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ頻出語彙と読解、ドリトル先生アフリカゆきで学ぶ語彙・読解もクリックすると全文読めます。
訳本は三点とも岩波少年文庫からいいものが出ています。たとえ数分でも自力で英文を理解するよう努力してからの訳本の利用がおすすめです。考えずに訳文を暗記するような横着をしていては英語思考力が伸ばせません。
※(64)の解答①(yelled)②(ran for our lives)③(it moved apart from) ⑤(describe)⑥(though)⑦(which to tell you)⑧(knowing how much this)⑨(gazed)⑩(revealed)⑪(shield his eyes from)⑫(whisper)⑬(with his hand outstretched)⑭(heard old Bumpo sniffle)⑮(buried)⑯(last) ⑰(been so glad in)⑱(face lit up with)⑲(owe)⑳(for)
(65)
Then the Doctor ①(to / who / signaled / Bumpo) came forward with the nuts and water. But Long Arrow neither ate nor drank. Taking the supplies with a nod of thanks, he turned and carried them into the inner dimness of the cave. We followed him.
Inside we found nine other Indians, men, women and boys, lying on the rock floor in a ②**(dreadful : gradual : conspicuous : tame) state of thinness and exhaustion.
Some had their eyes closed, as if dead. Quickly the Doctor went round them all and listened to their hearts. They were all alive; but one woman was too weak even to ③(feet / her / stand / upon).
At a word from the Doctor, Chee-Chee and Polynesia sped off into the jungles after more fruit and water.
While Long Arrow was handing round what food we had to his ④*(prevailing : cursing : offending : starving) friends, we suddenly heard a sound outside the cave. Turning about we saw, clustered at the entrance, the band of Indians who had met us so inhospitably at the beach.
They peered into the dark cave cautiously at first. But as soon as they saw Long Arrow and the other Indians with us, they came rushing in, laughing, ⑤(their / with / clapping / hands) joy and jabbering away at a tremendous rate.
Long Arrow explained to the Doctor that the nine Indians we had found in the cave with him were two families who had ⑥*(founded : accompanied : recognized : surrounded) him into the mountains to help him gather medicine-plants. And while they had been searching for a kind of moss—good for indigestion—which grows only inside of damp caves, the great rock slab had slid down and shut them in. Then for two weeks they had lived on the medicine-moss and such fresh water as could be found dripping from the damp walls of the cave. The other Indians on the island had given them up for lost and ⑦***(dictated : mourned : mingled : evaporated) them as dead; and they were now very surprised and happy to find their relatives alive.
When Long Arrow turned to the newcomers and told them in their own language that it was the ⑧(man / white / had / who) found and freed their relatives, they gathered round John Dolittle, all talking at once and beating their breasts.
Long Arrow said they were ⑨*(replacing : apologizing : attracting : containing) and trying to tell the Doctor how sorry they were that they had seemed unfriendly to him at the beach. They had never seen a white man before and had really been afraid of him—especially when they ⑩(with / conversing / him / saw) the porpoises. They had thought he was the Devil, they said.
Then they went outside and looked at the great stone we had thrown down, big as a meadow; and they walked round and round it, pointing to the break running through the middle and wondering how the ⑪**(border : trick : illusion : shortage) of felling it was done.
Travelers who have since visited Spidermonkey Island tell me that that huge stone slab is now one of the ⑫*(complete : regular : dull : narrow) sights of the island. And that the Indian guides, when showing it to visitors, always tell THEIR story of how it came there. They say that when the Doctor found that the rocks had entrapped his friend, Long Arrow, he was so angry that he ripped the ⑬(in / mountain / with / halves) his bare hands and let him out.
THE SECOND CHAPTER. "THE MEN OF THE MOVING LAND"
FROM that time on the Indians' ⑭*(arrangement : solution : analysis : treatment) of us was very different. We were invited to their village for a feast to ⑮*(prevent : celebrate : suspect : disturb) the recovery of the lost families. And after we had made a litter from saplings to carry the sick woman in, we all started off down the mountain.
On the way the Indians told Long Arrow ⑯(which / to / appeared / something) be sad news, for on hearing it, his face grew very grave. The Doctor asked him what was wrong. And Long Arrow said he had just been ⑰(examined : informed : estimated : rescued) that the chief of the tribe, an old man of eighty, had died early that morning.
"That," Polynesia ⑱*(whispered : satisfied : demanded : supplied) in my ear, "must have been what they went back to the village for, when the messenger fetched them from the beach.—Remember?"
"What did he die of?" asked the Doctor.
"He died of cold," said Long Arrow.
Indeed, now that the sun was setting, we were all shivering ourselves.
"This is a serious thing," said the Doctor to me. "The island is still in the grip of that wretched ⑲**(volcano : context : current : glory) flowing southward. We will have to look into this to-morrow. If nothing can be done about it, the Indians had better take to canoes and leave the island. The ⑳(being / chance / wrecked / of) will be better than getting frozen to death in the ice-floes of the Antarctic."
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