「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(18)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」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。
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。四語選択問題の単語は大学入試、英検、TOEICに共通する重要単語で＊印は難易度の目安です。＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。

(18)
When the Doctor stopped speaking and sat down, all the monkeys ①**(scratched : clapped : posed : crushed) their hands a long time and said to one another, "Let it be remembered always ②(that / among / people / our) he sat and ate with us, here, under the trees. For surely he is the Greatest of Men!"

And the Grand Gorilla, who had the ③*(strength : length : width : deapth) of seven horses in his hairy arms, ④**(teared : rolled : spilled : teased) a great rock up to the head of the table and said,

"This stone for all time shall ⑤**(inspect : distort : consult : mark) the spot."

And even to this day, in the heart of the Jungle, that stone still is there. And monkey-mothers, passing through the forest with their families, still point down at it from the branches and ⑥*(stick : whisper : apply : tend) to their children, "Sh! There it is—look—where the Good White Man sat and ate food with us in the Year of the Great Sickness!"

Then, when the party was over, the Doctor and his pets started out to go back to the seashore. And all the monkeys went with him as far as the ⑦*(climate : era : cause : edge) of their country, carrying his trunk and bags, ⑧(him / to / off / see).

THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER
THE BLACK PRINCE
BY the edge of the river they stopped and said ⑨*(goods : farewell : liberty : treasure).

This took a long time, because all those thousands of monkeys wanted to ⑩*(release : shake : wound : imitate) John Dolittle by the hand.

Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone, Polynesia said,

"We must ⑪***(recite : swallow : deceive : tread) softly and talk low as we go through the land of the Jolliginki. If the King should hear us, he will send his soldiers to catch us again; for I am sure he is still very angry over the ⑫(on / played / I / trick) him."

"What I am wondering," said the Doctor, "is where we are going to get another boat to go home in.... Oh well, perhaps we'll find one ⑬*(rising : lying : raising : laying) about on the beach that nobody is using. 'Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.'"

One day, while they were passing through a very thick part of the forest, Chee-Chee ⑭(of / went / them / ahead) to look for cocoanuts. And while he was away, the Doctor and the rest of the animals, who did not know the jungle-paths so well, got lost in the deep woods. They ⑮*(endured : survived : wandered : selected) around and around but could not find their way down to the seashore.

Chee-Chee, when he could not see them anywhere, was terribly ⑯*(curious : upset : idle : capable). He climbed high trees and looked out from the top branches to try and see the Doctor's high hat; he waved and shouted; he called to all the animals by name. But it was no use. They seemed to have ⑰*(emerged : disappeared : gathered : accompanied) altogether.

Indeed they had lost their way very badly. They had ⑰***(strayed : shrinked : enrolled : swept) a long way off the path, and the jungle was so thick with bushes and creepers and vines that sometimes they could hardly move at all, and the Doctor had to take out his pocket-knife and cut his way along. They ⑱**(stumbled : isolated : located : embarrassed )into wet, boggy places; they got all tangled up in thick convolvulus-runners; they ⑲**(starved : abused : scratched : invaded) themselves on thorns, and twice they nearly lost the medicine-bag in the under-brush. There ⑳(to / seemed / end / no) their troubles; and nowhere could they come upon a path.

※(18)の解答①(clapped)②(among our people that)③(strength)④(rolled)⑤(mark)⑥(whisper)⑦(edge)⑧(to see him off)⑨(farewell)
⑩(shake)⑪(tread)⑫(trick I played on)⑬(lying)⑭(went ahead of them)⑮(wandered)⑯(upset)⑰(disappeared)⑰(strayed)⑱(stumbled)⑲(scratched)⑳(seemed no end to)