学習効率を大きく左右する要因は「楽しさ」の有無で、無味乾燥な教材を通しての学力向上はきわめて困難です。しかし興味の持てる教材ならば余計な苦労をせずに済みます。そんなわけで、子どもが読んでも大人が読んでも面白い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。
※(66)の解答①(cluster of large grass)②(situated)③(covers)④(rescue)⑤(greet)⑥(white visitor to their)⑦(lifted)⑧(welcome we received was)⑩(had no idea that)⑪(had done were recited)⑫( informed)⑬(elected)⑭(prepared)⑮(invited us to sit)⑯(disappointed) ⑰(seem to think this)⑱(prefer our fish cooked)⑲(astonishment) ⑳(he leant down to)
(67)
THE THIRD CHAPTER. FIRE
THEN the Doctor asked Long Arrow ①(knew / if / what / he ) fire was, explaining it to him by pictures drawn on the buckskin table-cloth. Long Arrow said he had seen such a thing—coming out of the tops of volcanoes; but that neither he nor any of the Popsipetels knew how it was made.
"Poor perishing heathens!" muttered Bumpo. "No ②(matter : wonder : reason : where) the old chief died of cold!"
At that moment we heard a crying sound at the door. And turning round, we saw a ③*(reducing : weeping : removing : neglecting) Indian mother with a baby in her arms. She said something to the Indians which we could not understand; and Long Arrow told us the baby was sick and she wanted the white doctor to try and cure it.
"Oh Lord!" groaned Polynesia in my ear—"Just like Puddleby: patients arriving in the middle of dinner. Well, one thing: the food's raw, so nothing ④(get / anyway / can / cold)."
The Doctor examined the baby and found at once that it was ⑤*(thoroughly : narrowly : rapidly : accurately) chilled.
"Fire—FIRE! That's what it needs," ⑥(to / turning / said / he) Long Arrow—"That's what you all need. This child will have pneumonia if it isn't kept warm."
"Aye, truly. But how to make a fire," said Long Arrow—"where to get it: that is the difficulty. All the volcanoes in ⑦(are / this / dead / land)."
Then we fell to hunting through our ⑧(see / pockets / if / to) any matches had survived the shipwreck. The best we could muster were two whole ones and a half—all with the heads soaked off them by salt water.
"Hark, Long Arrow," said the Doctor: "divers ways there be of making fire without the aid of matches. One: with a strong glass and the rays of the sun. That however, since the sun has set, we cannot now ⑨*(fix : employ : affect : hesitate). Another is by grinding a hard stick into a soft log—Is the daylight gone without?—Alas yes. Then I ⑩*(deny : fear : contain : involve) we must await the morrow; for besides the different woods, we need an old squirrel's nest for fuel—And that without lamps you could not find in your forests at this hour."
"Great are your cunning and your skill, oh White Man," Long Arrow replied. "But in this you do us an injustice. Know you not that all fireless peoples can see in the dark? Having no lamps we are ⑪*(replaced : forced : wasted : followed) to train ourselves to travel through the blackest night, lightless. I will ⑫**(prolong : reform : assert : dispatch)a messenger and you shall have your squirrel's nest within the hour."
He gave an order to two of our boy-servants who ⑬**(scarcely : promptly : eventually : timidly) disappeared running. And sure enough, in a very short space of time a squirrel's nest, together with hard and soft woods, was ⑭(door / brought / our / to).
The moon had not yet risen and within the house it was practically pitch-black. I could feel and hear, however, that the Indians were moving about comfortably ⑮(though / as / were / it) daylight. The task of making fire the Doctor had to perform almost entirely by the sense of touch, asking Long Arrow and the Indians to hand him his tools when he mislaid them in the dark. And then I made a ⑯*(generous : curious : capable : sensitive) discovery: now that I had to, I found that I was beginning to see a little in the dark myself. And for the first time I ⑰*(pretended : realized : postponed : mentioned) that of course there is no such thing as pitch-dark, so long as you have a door open or a sky above you.
Calling for the loan of a bow, the Doctor loosened the string, put the hard stick into a loop and began ⑱(into / this / grinding / stick) the soft wood of the log. Soon I smelt that the log was smoking. Then he kept feeding the part ⑲(with / that / smoking / was) the inside lining of the squirrel's nest, and he asked me to blow upon it with my breath. He made the stick drill faster and faster. More smoke ⑳*(lasted : filled : observed : freezed) the room. And at last the darkness about us was suddenly lit up. The squirrel's nest had burst into flame.
解答は次回発表。ご意見、ご要望等はsuzuyasu@wmail.plala.or.jpでも承っております。
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。
※(66)の解答①(cluster of large grass)②(situated)③(covers)④(rescue)⑤(greet)⑥(white visitor to their)⑦(lifted)⑧(welcome we received was)⑩(had no idea that)⑪(had done were recited)⑫( informed)⑬(elected)⑭(prepared)⑮(invited us to sit)⑯(disappointed) ⑰(seem to think this)⑱(prefer our fish cooked)⑲(astonishment) ⑳(he leant down to)
(67)
THE THIRD CHAPTER. FIRE
THEN the Doctor asked Long Arrow ①(knew / if / what / he ) fire was, explaining it to him by pictures drawn on the buckskin table-cloth. Long Arrow said he had seen such a thing—coming out of the tops of volcanoes; but that neither he nor any of the Popsipetels knew how it was made.
"Poor perishing heathens!" muttered Bumpo. "No ②(matter : wonder : reason : where) the old chief died of cold!"
At that moment we heard a crying sound at the door. And turning round, we saw a ③*(reducing : weeping : removing : neglecting) Indian mother with a baby in her arms. She said something to the Indians which we could not understand; and Long Arrow told us the baby was sick and she wanted the white doctor to try and cure it.
"Oh Lord!" groaned Polynesia in my ear—"Just like Puddleby: patients arriving in the middle of dinner. Well, one thing: the food's raw, so nothing ④(get / anyway / can / cold)."
The Doctor examined the baby and found at once that it was ⑤*(thoroughly : narrowly : rapidly : accurately) chilled.
"Fire—FIRE! That's what it needs," ⑥(to / turning / said / he) Long Arrow—"That's what you all need. This child will have pneumonia if it isn't kept warm."
"Aye, truly. But how to make a fire," said Long Arrow—"where to get it: that is the difficulty. All the volcanoes in ⑦(are / this / dead / land)."
Then we fell to hunting through our ⑧(see / pockets / if / to) any matches had survived the shipwreck. The best we could muster were two whole ones and a half—all with the heads soaked off them by salt water.
"Hark, Long Arrow," said the Doctor: "divers ways there be of making fire without the aid of matches. One: with a strong glass and the rays of the sun. That however, since the sun has set, we cannot now ⑨*(fix : employ : affect : hesitate). Another is by grinding a hard stick into a soft log—Is the daylight gone without?—Alas yes. Then I ⑩*(deny : fear : contain : involve) we must await the morrow; for besides the different woods, we need an old squirrel's nest for fuel—And that without lamps you could not find in your forests at this hour."
"Great are your cunning and your skill, oh White Man," Long Arrow replied. "But in this you do us an injustice. Know you not that all fireless peoples can see in the dark? Having no lamps we are ⑪*(replaced : forced : wasted : followed) to train ourselves to travel through the blackest night, lightless. I will ⑫**(prolong : reform : assert : dispatch)a messenger and you shall have your squirrel's nest within the hour."
He gave an order to two of our boy-servants who ⑬**(scarcely : promptly : eventually : timidly) disappeared running. And sure enough, in a very short space of time a squirrel's nest, together with hard and soft woods, was ⑭(door / brought / our / to).
The moon had not yet risen and within the house it was practically pitch-black. I could feel and hear, however, that the Indians were moving about comfortably ⑮(though / as / were / it) daylight. The task of making fire the Doctor had to perform almost entirely by the sense of touch, asking Long Arrow and the Indians to hand him his tools when he mislaid them in the dark. And then I made a ⑯*(generous : curious : capable : sensitive) discovery: now that I had to, I found that I was beginning to see a little in the dark myself. And for the first time I ⑰*(pretended : realized : postponed : mentioned) that of course there is no such thing as pitch-dark, so long as you have a door open or a sky above you.
Calling for the loan of a bow, the Doctor loosened the string, put the hard stick into a loop and began ⑱(into / this / grinding / stick) the soft wood of the log. Soon I smelt that the log was smoking. Then he kept feeding the part ⑲(with / that / smoking / was) the inside lining of the squirrel's nest, and he asked me to blow upon it with my breath. He made the stick drill faster and faster. More smoke ⑳*(lasted : filled : observed : freezed) the room. And at last the darkness about us was suddenly lit up. The squirrel's nest had burst into flame.
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