英英ヒント付きのセンター試験長文過去問(8)（1992年センター試験第６問）

　共通テスト英語はセンター試験英語と比較して大幅に量が増えたものの、読解力と聴解力があれば確実に点が取れる試験です。正確な読解には語彙力が不可欠で、英英定義で語彙を強化すると読解力と聴解力を一緒に鍛えることが可能です。さらに英語を英語のまま理解できるようになる結果共通テスト英語で時間が足りない悩みを大幅に解消できます。そこで、
キーワード英英ヒントつきのセンター試験の過去問をお届けします。

　青字の英英定義はすべて大学入学共通テスト 時間内で解ける力がつく英英直読英単語・熟語に収録されたものです。
　高校生が英英辞典に親しみ大学受験期には英英辞典を自由自在に使いこなすようになれば、日本人の英語力は劇的に改善されます。

1992-(6)
□My fifteen-year-old son has just returned from abroad with a dozen rolls of exposed film and several hundred dollars in unused traveler's checks. His blue bag lies on the hall floor where he dropped in, about four short steps into the house. Last night he slept in Paris, and the twenty nights before that in various beds in England and Scotland, but evidently he postponed【to arrange for something to take place at a later time】 as much sleep as he could; after he walked in and said hello and how much he'd missed home, his electrical system suddenly switched off, and he headed half-unconscious for his bed, where I imagine he may break his old record of sixteen hours.
□I don't think I'll sleep for a while. This household has been in a state of excitement over the trip since weeks before it began, when we said, “In one month, you'll be in London! Imagine!” It was his first trip overseas, so we bought him travel books and a cassette tape of useful French phrases, made a list of people to visit, and advised him on clothing and other things. At the department store where we went to buy him a suitcase, he looked at a few and headed for the bags and knapsacks. He said that suitcases were for old people. I am only in my forties, though, and I pointed out that a suitcase keeps your things — a jacket, for example — neat and tidy. He said he wasn't taking a jacket. The voice of my mother spoke through me. “Don't you want to look nice?” I said, but he just turned away.
□During his trip, he called home three times: from London, from Paris, and from a town named Ullapool in Scotland. “It's like no place in America, Dad,” he reported excitedly. He hiked through flocks of Scottish sheep and climbed a mountain in a heavy rainstorm. In a village near Ullapool, a man spoke to him in the unfamiliar local language, and, too polite【having good manners and respect for the feelings of others】 to interrupt, my son listened to him for ten or fifteen minutes, trying to nod in the right places. The French he learned from the cassette was of little use in Paris; the people he spoke to shook【to move something quickly】 their heads and walked on.
□I myself have never been outside the United States, except twice to Canada. When I was eighteen, a friend and I made a list of experiences we intended to have before we reached twenty-one, which included hitchhiking to the West Coast, learning to play the guitar, and going to Europe. I've done none of them. When my son phoned, I sat down and leaned forward, eager【wanting to do something very much】 to catch every word. I have never listened on the telephone so intently and with so much pleasure as I did those three times. It was wonderful and moving to hear news from him. To me, he was the first man to land on the moon; I knew that I had no advice to give him and that what I had already given was probably not much help. The money that he'd left on the hall table — almost half the amount I sent him off with — is certainly evidence【the facts or objects which cause you to believe that something exists or is true】 of that.
□Youth travels light. No suitcase, no jacket, not much language, and not much money spent — and yet he went where he wanted to go, did what he wanted to do, and came back safely. I sit here amazed. The night when your child returns with dust on his shoes from a country you've never seen is a night that you wish would last for a week.
（注） exposed film: 撮影済みのフィルム．
traveler's check: 旅行者用小切手．

問１ What did the son do after exchanging greetings with his father?
① He dropped to the floor, half-unconscious.
② He slept for sixteen hours without waking.
③ He talked about his trip far into the night.
④ He went to his room and fell fast asleep.

問２ Why was the family so excited about the son's trip long before it began?
① Because he was the first in his family to travel outside the United States.
② Because he would be going overseas for the first time.
③ Because the family considered him much too young to travel by himself.
④ Because they couldn't believe he was to be the first to land on the moon.

問３ Why did the father advise his son to get a suitcase?
① Because he believed carrying a suitcase would make his son look older.
② Because he considered a suitcase to be better for carrying clothes.
③ Because he thought his son would look nice carrying one.
④ Because the boy's mother wanted him to have one.

問４ How well did the son communicate when speaking with the local people during his trip?
① He experienced difficulties in Scotland and Paris.
② He had no difficulties, thanks to the language tape he took with him.
③ He had no trouble in Scotland, but he couldn't communicate in Paris.
④ He managed to communicate in the local language in Ullapool.

問５ What does “youth travels light” in the last paragraph mean?
① Young people don't need much when they make a trip.
② Young people don't take a lot of money when traveling.
③ Young people like to wear light-colored clothes when they travel.
④ Young people prefer traveling in the daytime when it is light.

問６ What was it that amazed the father?
① The ease with which his young son was able to travel successfully.
② The evidence that the advice he had given was a great help during his son's trip.
③ The fact that his son only spent half the money which he had been given.
④ The story his son brought back about his trip.

Ｂ 次の①～⑩のうちから本文の内容と合っているものを４つ選び，その番号を答えよ．
ただし，解答の順序は問わない．
① The son switched off the electric light in the hall.
② The father was over fifty when his son went on the trip.
③ When the father said to his son, “Don't you want to look nice?”, he was remembering
what his own mother used to say.
④ The son made a telephone call to his father from London.
⑤ When a man in a Scottish village spoke to him, the boy was too polite to say he couldn't understand him.
⑥ The father had never been out of his own country.
⑦ The father learned how to play the guitar when he was his son's age.
⑧ The father listened intently to his son on the phone because he himself had wanted to
have a similar kind of experience when young.
⑨ Since the father had been to Europe himself when he was young, his son's stories didn't
impress him very much.
⑩ The father had no advice to give his son on the phone because he had given him enough
before the trip.

解答）Ａ 1④ 2② 3② 4① 5① 6① Ｂ ③④⑤⑧

大学入学共通テスト 時間内で解ける力がつく英英直読英単語・熟語は上記長文中の語彙を以下のように網羅的にカバーしています。
□My fifteen-year-old son has just returned from abroad with a dozen rolls of exposed film and several hundred dollars in unused traveler's checks. His blue bag lies on the hall floor where he dropped in, about four short steps into the house. Last night he slept in Paris, and the twenty nights before that in various beds in England and Scotland, but evidently he postponed as much sleep as he could; after he walked in and said hello and how much he'd missed home, his electrical system suddenly switched off, and he headed half-unconscious for his bed, where I imagine he may break his old record of sixteen hours.
□I don't think I'll sleep for a while. This household has been in a state of excitement over the trip since weeks before it began, when we said, “In one month, you'll be in London! Imagine!” It was his first trip overseas, so we bought him travel books and a cassette tape of useful French phrases, made a list of people to visit, and advised him on clothing and other things. At the department store where we went to buy him a suitcase, he looked at a few and headed for the bags and knapsacks. He said that suitcases were for old people. I am only in my forties, though, and I pointed out that a suitcase keeps your things — a jacket, for example — neat and tidy. He said he wasn't taking a jacket. The voice of my mother spoke through me. “Don't you want to look nice?” I said, but he just turned away.
□During his trip, he called home three times: from London, from Paris, and from a town named Ullapool in Scotland. “It's like no place in America, Dad,” he reported excitedly. He hiked through flocks of Scottish sheep and climbed a mountain in a heavy rainstorm. In a village near Ullapool, a man spoke to him in the unfamiliar local language, and, too polite to interrupt, my son listened to him for ten or fifteen minutes, trying to nod in the right places. The French he learned from the cassette was of little use in Paris; the people he spoke to shook their heads and walked on.
□I myself have never been outside the United States, except twice to Canada. When I was eighteen, a friend and I made a list of experiences we intended to have before we reached twenty-one, which included hitchhiking to the West Coast, learning to play the guitar, and going to Europe. I've done none of them. When my son phoned, I sat down and leaned forward, eager to catch every word. I have never listened on the telephone so intently and with so much pleasure as I did those three times. It was wonderful and moving to hear news from him. To me, he was the first man to land on the moon; I knew that I had no advice to give him and that what I had already given was probably not much help. The money that he'd left on the hall table — almost half the amount I sent him off with — is certainly evidence of that.
□Youth travels light. No suitcase, no jacket, not much language, and not much money spent — and yet he went where he wanted to go, did what he wanted to do, and came back safely. I sit here amazed. The night when your child returns with dust on his shoes from a country you've never seen is a night that you wish would last for a week.

大学入学共通テスト 時間内で解ける力がつく英英直読英単語・熟語は、８００の例文と大学受験生向けに新作した８００の英英定義文の中に２０００語以上の共通テストのキーワードになる英単語・熟語を網羅的に組み込み、以下のような四択問題２００問と英英挟み撃ち問題８００問からなる練習問題にしました。

①suggest【səgdʒést 】(Ex:I *suggest you get some rest.)
②force【fɔ'ːrs】(Ex:She *forced me to sing a song.)
③celebrate【séləbrèit】(Ex:Wedding *anniversaries are *celebrated in many different ways.)
④regard【rigɑ'ːrd】(Ex:We *regard Edison as a great inventor.)
(A)to make someone do something they do not want to do
(B)to tell your ideas for other people to *consider
(C)to think about someone or something in a *particular way
(D)to do something special or enjoyable to show that an *occasion or event is important

解答）①B②A③D④C
①suggest【提案する 】(Ex:私はあなたに休むよう提案する)
②force【強いる】(Ex:彼女は私に歌を歌うよう強いた)
③celebrate【祝う】(Ex:結婚記念日は様々なあり方で祝われる)
④regard【みなす】(Ex:われわれはエジソンを偉大な発明家とみなしている)
(A)誰かにしたくないことをさせること
(B)他の人々が考慮するよう自分の考えを言うこと
(C)誰かあるいは何かを特定のあり方で考えること
(D)機会や出来事が重要であることを示すために何か特別なあるいは楽しいことをすること

①I sug------- you get some rest.
【to tell your ideas for other people to consider】

②She for------- me to sing a song.
【to make someone do something they do not want to do】

③Wedding anniversaries are cel------- in many different ways.
【to do something special or enjoyable to show that an occasion or event is important】

④We reg------- Edison as a great inventor.
【to think about someone or something in a particular way】

解答）①suggest ②forced ③celebrated ④regard

　予備校の授業で採用したところ、共通テスト試行 調査問題の正解率が5割以下だった受験生が半年弱で8~9割正解できるまでの 成果が出ています。
大学入学共通テスト 時間内で解ける力がつく英英直読英単語・熟語に準拠した共通テストキーワード８００語を定義→単語→例文の順で英語字幕を見ながら書き取る穴埋め式ディクテーション用紙は無料提供しています。
　毎日２０～３０分×５０日で、A４表裏５０枚の穴埋めを完成させて
大学入学共通テスト 時間内で解ける力がつく英英直読英単語・熟語の問題を解くと英語力は飛躍的に向上します。
　以下は英語字幕を表示できる無料画像と穴埋め式ディクテーション用紙のサンプルです。穴埋め式ディクテーション用紙をプリントアウトしてスマホでQRコードをなぞると画像が表示され、数秒で消える英語字幕を速読する訓練を通して読解力も養成できます。

　ー視聴するだけでみるみる語彙力が伸びるー大学入学共通テスト 英英直読英単語・熟語(241)～(256)

(241)to ( 　　　 　 ) in doing something＝( 　　　 )

To ( 　 　 　) your dream, you need to take a little ( 　　　 ).

(242)to be used ( 　 　　 ) of something＝( 　　　 　 )

( 　　 　 　　 ), the 20 primary teeth are ( 　　 　　 　 ) by 32 ( 　　 　 ) teeth.

(243)to ( 　　 　 ) in a particular way in order to ( 　 　 　 ) other people＝( 　　 　 )

I could ( 　 　 ) he was only ( 　 　 　 ) to read, because his book was upside down.

(244)to angrily ( 　　 　 ) someone who has done something wrong＝( 　　 　 )

It seems that there is an unspoken rule that you can't ( 　 　 ) another person's child.

(245)to make a short ( 　 　　　 ) sound＝( 　 　　　 　 )

It was quiet night, and the only sound to be heard was a dog ( 　　 　　　 ) in the ( 　　 　　 　 ).

(246)to make a ( 　　 　　 　 )( 　　 　 　　 ) for something
such as a job, admission to a school, a loan, etc.＝( 　　 　 )

You can ( 　 　 　 ) for this scholarship
on the ( 　 　 　　 　 ) that you have a letter of ( 　 　　　 　 　 ) from your teacher.

(247)to think or say that someone or something is ( 　　 　　　 　 ) for something bad＝( 　　 　 　 )

The ( 　　　　　　 　 ) was ( 　　 　　 　 ) for not carrying out his campaign promises.

(248)to be ( 　 )( 　 　 )( 　　 　 ) used because the ( 　　 　 ) of time during which it could be used
has ( 　 　 )to an end＝( 　　 　 　 )

I have to ( 　 　 ) my commuter pass ( 　 　 　 ) because it ( 　　 　 ) tomorrow.

(249)a piece of writing about a particular ( 　　　　 )
that is ( 　　　　 ) in a newspaper or magazine＝( 　 　　 　 )

My aunt often ( 　　 　　　 )( 　　 　　　 )( 　　　 )to international medical journals.

(250)an object or a piece of ( 　　 　 ) that has been ( 　　 　 ) for a particular purpose＝( 　　 　 )

First-time smartphone buyers may be surprised their new ( 　 )doesn't come with ( 　　 　 ).

(251)something that ( 　 　 ) a change or a ( 　　 　　 　 ) in a human, an animal or a plant＝( 　　 　　 　 )

There is a decrease in ( 　　 　 　　 ) to a ( 　　 　　 　 ) after being repeatedly ( 　 　 　　 　 ) to it.

(252)a feeling that someone or something is important＝( 　　 　 )

People in big cities ( 　　 　 ) talk to strangers ( 　 　 )( 　 )( 　　 　 )for the privacy of others.

(253)the land along the ( 　　 ) of a sea, lake, or wide river＝( 　　 　 )

Why are waves always parallel to the ( 　　　 　 ) on ( 　　 　　 　 ) the seashore?

(254)the ability to make good ( 　　　 　 ) and ( 　　 　 　 )using your knowledge and experience＝( 　　 　 )

I ( 　　 　 ) the ( 　　 　 ) I have made in English to the ( 　　 　 ) of my aunt.

(255)a large area of dry land that is usually ( 　　 　 ) with sand＝( 　　 　 )

The smooth ( 　　 　 ) of the ( 　　 　 ) makes it possible for camels to ( 　　 　 　 ) goods easily.

(256)the feeling of ( 　　 　　　 　 ) that you have when you have done something wrong or ( 　　 　 )
＝( 　　 　　 　 )

There's no ( 　　 　　 ) in ( 　　 　 　 )( 　 　 ) for professional help.

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(257)causing pain and ( 　　 　 ) to people or animals ( 　 )( 　　 　 )＝( 　 　 　 )

It is ( 　　 　 ) to ( 　　 ) animals for sport.

(258)not covered by clothes＝( 　　 　 )

Gloves are a great ( 　　 　　　 　 ) for ( 　　 　　　　 )( 　　　 ) hand contact,
but they can be ( 　　 　　　　 　 ).

(259)far away from large cities＝( 　　　 　 )

When you travel to rural Japan, the ( 　　 　　 ) of population ( 　　 　 　 ) become ( 　　 　　 　 ).

(260)having the ability to think, understand, and learn things quickly and well＝( 　　　　 　 )

Human skulls ( 　　 　 　 )( 　　 　　　 ) around three times
as large as those of even the most ( 　　 　 　　　 ) apes.

(261)to keep something in good condition＝( 　　 　　　 　 )

Before refrigerators became ( 　　 　 ), vinegar was vitally important in ( 　　 　　　　 ) food in the form of pickles.

(262)to stop working because of old age＝( 　　　 　 )

Employees are ( 　　　　 　 ) to ( 　　 　 　 ) at the age of sixty in our company.

(263)to say that something is not ( 　　　 　　　　 　 )＝( 　　　　　 )

So far as I am ( 　　 　 ), I have nothing to ( 　　　　 　 ) about.

(264)to ( 　　 　 　 ) to live in spite of difficult ( 　　 　 　 )＝( 　　 　　　 )
　
Human beings have ( 　　 　 ) so far but could now be ( 　　 　 ) their future.

(265)to say hello to someone or to ( 　　 　 ) them＝( 　　 　 )

Manners of ( 　　 　 )( 　 　 ) from country to country.

(266)to change something ( 　 　 ) to make it work better＝( 　 　 　 )

( 　　 　 )( 　 　　　 ) all the steps to ( 　　 　 ) the brightness of my computer screen is a real nuisance.

(267)to start an ( 　　 　 　 ) or company in such a way that it is likely to ( 　　 　　 ) for a long time
＝( 　　　　 　 )

Japan ( 　　 　　　 ) greatly toward ( 　　 　　　 ) the International Year of the Volunteer.

(268)to ( 　　 　　　 ) that you have done something wrong or ( 　　 　 　 )＝( 　　　 　 )

When the police questioned him, he broke down and ( 　 　　 　 ).

(269)a thin paper ( 　　 　 ) used for sending letters＝( 　　　　　 　 )

Postcards are usually ( 　 　　 ) without an ( 　　 　　　 　 ).

(270)the ( 　　 　 ) of money that you ( 　 　 )for the work that you do＝( 　　 　 )

In Japan, the ( 　　 　 )( 　　 　 ) ( 　　 　 ) on the ( 　 　　 ) and the ( 　　　 ).

(271)a large area of rock with a very ( 　　 　 ) side＝( 　　 　 )

Mr. Brown looked over the ( 　 　 ) and found he was standing at the edge of a ( 　　 　 　 ) drop.

(272)the ( 　　 　　　 )and ( 　　　　　 　 ) movement of goods, people, or information from one place to another＝( 　　　　 　 )

Europe has long been a popular ( 　　 　　 　 ) in global ( 　　　　 　 )( 　　 ).

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