「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(8)

　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。( )には文脈にあったアルファベットを補充してください。スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題になっています。
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"What are you doing here?" asked the duck. "You were told to stay ①( )ehind in Puddleby."

"I didn't want to be left behind," said the mouse. "I wanted to see what Africa was like—I have ②( )elatives there. So I hid in the baggage and was brought on to the ship with the hard-tack. When the ship sank I was terribly frightened—because I cannot swim far. I swam as long as I could, but I soon got all ③( )xhausted and thought I was going to sink. And then, just at that moment, the old man's hat came ④( )loating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be ⑤( )rowned."

So the duck took up the hat with the mouse in it and brought it to the Doctor on the shore. And they all ⑥( )athered round to have a look.

"That's what you call a 'stowaway,'" said the parrot.

Presently, when they were looking for a place in the trunk where the white ⑦(could / mouse / comfortably / travel ), the monkey, Chee-Chee, suddenly said,

"Sh! I hear footsteps in the jungle!"

They all stopped talking and listened. And soon a black man came down out of the woods and ⑧(what / asked / they / them) were doing there.

"My name is John Dolittle—M. D.," said the Doctor. "I have been asked to come to Africa to ⑨cu( )( ) the monkeys who are sick."

"You must all come before the King," said the black man.

"What king?" asked the Doctor, who didn't want to ⑩( )aste any time.

"The King of the Jolliginki," the man answered. "All these lands ⑪( )elong to him; and all strangers must ⑫(him / before / brought / be). Follow me."

So they gathered up their baggage and went off, following the man through the jungle.

THE SIXTH CHAPTER
POLYNESIA AND THE KING
WHEN they had gone a little way through the ⑬( )hick forest they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King's palace which was made of mud.

This was where the King lived with his Queen, Ermintrude, and their son, Prince Bumpo. The Prince ⑭(fishing / was / for / away) salmon in the river. But the King and Queen were sitting under an umbrella before the palace door. And Queen Ermintrude was asleep.

When the Doctor had come up to the palace the King asked him his business; and the Doctor ⑮(him / told / he / why) had come to Africa.

"You may not travel through my lands," said the King. "Many years ago a white man came to these shores; and I was very kind to him. But after he had ⑯( )ug holes in the ground to get the gold, and killed all the elephants to get their ivory tusks, he went away ⑰( )ecretly in his ship—without ⑱(as / so / saying / much) 'Thank you.' Never again shall a white man travel through the lands of Jolliginki."

Then the King ⑲( )urned to some of the black men who were standing near and said, "Take away this medicine-man—with all his animals, and lock them up in my strongest ⑳( )rison."

※(8)の解答①behind②relatives③exhausted④floating⑤drowned⑥gathered⑦(mouse could travel comfortably)⑧(asked them what they)⑨cure⑩waste⑪belong⑫(be brought before him)⑬thick ⑭(was away for fishing)⑮(told him why he)⑯dug⑰secretly⑱(so much as saying)⑲turned⑳prison