「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(15)

　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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Then Chee-Chee got up; and all the others ①( )hispered, "Sh! Look! Chee-Chee, the great Traveler, is about to speak!"

And Chee-Chee said to the other monkeys,

"My friends, I am afraid it is useless to ask the Doctor to stay. He ②( )wes money in Puddleby; and he says he must go back and pay it."

And the monkeys asked him, "What is MONEY?"

Then Chee-Chee ③(them / told / in / that) the Land of the White Men you could ④(money / get / without / nothing); you could DO nothing without money—that it was almost impossible to LIVE without money.

And some of them asked, "But can you not even eat and drink without paying?"

But Chee-Chee shook his head. And then he told them that even he, when he was with the organ-grinder, had ⑤(to / been / ask / made) the children for money.

And the Chief Chimpanzee ⑥( )urned to the Oldest Orangoutang and said, "Cousin, surely these Men be strange creatures! Who would wish to live in such a land? My gracious, how paltry!"

Then Chee-Chee said,

"When we were coming to you we had no boat to ⑦( )ross the sea in and no money to buy food to eat on our journey. So a man lent us some biscuits; and we said we would pay him when we came back. And we borrowed a boat from a sailor; but it was broken on the rocks when we reached the ⑧( )hores of Africa. Now the Doctor says he must go back and get the sailor another boat—because the man was poor and his ship was all he had."

And the monkeys were all silent for a while, sitting quite ⑨( )till upon the ground and thinking hard.

At last the Biggest Baboon got up and said,

"I do not think we ⑩(to / ought / this / let ) good man leave our land till we have given him a fine present to take with him, so that he may know we are ⑪( )rateful for all that he has done for us."

And a little, tiny red monkey who was sitting up in a tree shouted down,

"I think that too!"

And then they all cried out, ⑫(noise / great / a / making), "Yes, yes. Let us give him the finest present a White Man ever had!"

Now they began to wonder and ⑬(one / ask / what / another) would be the best thing to give him. And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!" And another—"A hundred bunches of bananas!— At least he shall not have to buy his fruit in the Land Where You Pay to Eat!"

But Chee-Chee told them that all these things would be too heavy to carry so far and would ⑭(half / go / before / bad) was eaten.

"If you want to ⑮( )lease him," he said, "give him an animal. You may be sure he will be kind to it. Give him some rare animal they have not got in the menageries."

And the monkeys asked him, "What are MENAGERIES?"

Then Chee-Chee ⑯(that / explained / them / to) menageries were places in the Land of the White Men, where animals were ⑰(for / put / cages / in) people to come and look at. And the monkeys were very ⑱( )hocked and said to one another,

"These Men are like thoughtless young ones—stupid and easily amused. Sh! It is a prison he means."

So then they asked Chee-Chee what ⑲rar( ) animal it could be that they should give the Doctor—one the White Men had not seen before. And the Major of the Marmosettes asked,

"Have they an iguana over there?"

But Chee-Chee said, "Yes, there is one in the London Zoo."

And another asked, "Have they an okapi?"

But Chee-Chee said, "Yes. In Belgium, where my organ-grinder took me five years ago, they had an okapi in a big city they call Antwerp."

And another asked, "Have they a pushmi-pullyu?"

Then Chee-Chee said, "No. No White Man has ever seen a pushmi-pullyu. Let ⑳(give / us / that / him)."

※(15)の解答①whispered②owes③(told them that in)④(get nothing without money)⑤(been made to ask)⑥turned⑦cross⑧shores⑨still (静止した)⑩(ought to let this) ⑪grateful⑫(making a great noise)←分詞構文⑬(ask one another what)⑭(go bad before half)⑮please ⑯(explained to them that)⑰(put in cages for)⑱shocked⑲rare⑳(us give him that)