楽しみながら学べば学習効率は大幅に向上します。そんなわけで、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。
※(76)の解答①(election) ②(was given out at)③(proper)④(govern) ⑤(disappointed)⑥(united)⑦(do wish they wouldn't)⑧(wish)⑨(drop them again when)⑩(to go on doing)⑪(end of me as)⑫(announce)⑬(throng)⑭(with long handles underneath)⑮(addressed) ⑯(clamor)⑰(desire to bask beneath)⑱(considered)⑲(so upset by anything) ⑳(known him to get)
(77)
"Oh dear!" I heard him ①**(tease : decline : murmur : inspire), looking around wildly for some escape. "What SHALL I do?—Did any of you see where I laid that stud of mine?—How on earth can I get this collar on without a stud? What a day this is, to be sure I—Maybe it rolled under the bed, Bumpo—I do think they might have given me a day or so to think it over in. Who ever heard of waking a man ②(of / right / his /out) sleep, and telling him he's got to be a king, before he has even washed his face? Can't any of you find it? Maybe you're standing on it, Bumpo. Move your feet."
"Oh don't ③**(suffer : bother : launch : cease) about your stud," said Polynesia. "You will have to be crowned without a collar. They won't know the difference."
"I tell you I'm not going to be crowned," cried the Doctor—"not if I can help it. I'll make them a speech. Perhaps that will ④*(satisfy : prevent : commit : reveal) them." He turned back to the Indians at the door.
"My friends," he said, "I am not ⑤**(incredible : worthy : vivid : bold) of this great honor you would do me. Little or no skill have I in the arts of kingcraft. Assuredly among your own brave men you will find many better ⑥*(involved : fitted : emerged : persuaded) to lead you. For this compliment, this confidence and trust, I thank you. But, I pray you, do not think of me for such high duties which I could not possibly ⑥*(ignore : predict : demand : fulfil)."
The old man repeated his words to the ⑦(him / people / in / behind) a louder voice. Stolidly they shook their heads, moving not an inch. The old man turned back to the Doctor.
"You are the chosen one," said he. "They will ⑧(you / but / none / have )."
Into the Doctor's perplexed face suddenly there came a flash of hope.
"I'll go and see Long Arrow," he whispered to me. "Perhaps he will know of some way to ⑨(me / of / get / out ) this."
And asking the personages to ⑩*(attend : excuse : address : display) him a moment, he left them there, standing at his door, and hurried off in the direction of Long Arrow's house. I followed him.
We found our big friend lying on a grass bed outside his home, where he had been moved that he might ⑪*(punish : witness : consume : define) the holiday-making.
"Long Arrow," said the Doctor speaking quickly in eagle tongue so that the bystanders should not overhear, "in dire peril I come to you for help. These men would make me their king. If such a thing befall me, all the great work I hoped to ⑫(undone / do / go / must), for who is there unfreer than a king? I pray you speak with them and persuade their kind well-meaning hearts that what they plan to do would be unwise."
Long Arrow raised himself upon his elbow. "Oh Kindly One," said he (this seemed now to have become the usual manner of address when speaking to the Doctor), "sorely it grieves me that the first wish you ask of me I should be unable to ⑬**(grant : irritate : convert : speculate). Alas! I can do nothing. These people have so set their hearts on keeping you for king that if I tried to ⑭*(flourish : endure : achieve : interfere) they would drive me from their land and likely crown you in the end in any case. A king you must be, if only for a while. We must so arrange the business of governing that you may have time to give to Nature's secrets. Later we may be able to hit upon some plan to ⑮*(found : relieve : describe : arrange) you of the burden of the crown. But for now you must be king. These people are a headstrong tribe and they will have their way. There is no other course."
Sadly the Doctor turned away from the bed and faced about. And there behind him stood the old man again, the crown still held in his wrinkled hands and the royal litter waiting at his elbow. With a deep reverence the bearers motioned towards the seat of the chair, inviting the ⑯(to / white / get / man) in.
Once more the poor Doctor looked wildly, hopelessly about him for some means of escape. For a moment I thought he was going to take to his heels and run for it. But the crowd around us was far too ⑰*(thin : common : thick : lazy) and densely packed for anyone to break through it. A band of whistles and drums near by suddenly started the music of a ⑱**(weary : solemn : secure : multiple) processional march. He turned back pleadingly again to Long Arrow in a last ⑲*(task : notice : appeal :creature) for help. But the big Indian merely shook his head and pointed, like the bearers, to the waiting chair.
At last, almost in tears, John Dolittle stepped slowly into the litter and sat down. As he was hoisted on to the broad shoulders of the bearers I heard him still feebly ⑳(his / beneath / muttering / breath),
"Botheration take it!—I don't WANT to be a king!"
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。
※(76)の解答①(election) ②(was given out at)③(proper)④(govern) ⑤(disappointed)⑥(united)⑦(do wish they wouldn't)⑧(wish)⑨(drop them again when)⑩(to go on doing)⑪(end of me as)⑫(announce)⑬(throng)⑭(with long handles underneath)⑮(addressed) ⑯(clamor)⑰(desire to bask beneath)⑱(considered)⑲(so upset by anything) ⑳(known him to get)
(77)
"Oh dear!" I heard him ①**(tease : decline : murmur : inspire), looking around wildly for some escape. "What SHALL I do?—Did any of you see where I laid that stud of mine?—How on earth can I get this collar on without a stud? What a day this is, to be sure I—Maybe it rolled under the bed, Bumpo—I do think they might have given me a day or so to think it over in. Who ever heard of waking a man ②(of / right / his /out) sleep, and telling him he's got to be a king, before he has even washed his face? Can't any of you find it? Maybe you're standing on it, Bumpo. Move your feet."
"Oh don't ③**(suffer : bother : launch : cease) about your stud," said Polynesia. "You will have to be crowned without a collar. They won't know the difference."
"I tell you I'm not going to be crowned," cried the Doctor—"not if I can help it. I'll make them a speech. Perhaps that will ④*(satisfy : prevent : commit : reveal) them." He turned back to the Indians at the door.
"My friends," he said, "I am not ⑤**(incredible : worthy : vivid : bold) of this great honor you would do me. Little or no skill have I in the arts of kingcraft. Assuredly among your own brave men you will find many better ⑥*(involved : fitted : emerged : persuaded) to lead you. For this compliment, this confidence and trust, I thank you. But, I pray you, do not think of me for such high duties which I could not possibly ⑥*(ignore : predict : demand : fulfil)."
The old man repeated his words to the ⑦(him / people / in / behind) a louder voice. Stolidly they shook their heads, moving not an inch. The old man turned back to the Doctor.
"You are the chosen one," said he. "They will ⑧(you / but / none / have )."
Into the Doctor's perplexed face suddenly there came a flash of hope.
"I'll go and see Long Arrow," he whispered to me. "Perhaps he will know of some way to ⑨(me / of / get / out ) this."
And asking the personages to ⑩*(attend : excuse : address : display) him a moment, he left them there, standing at his door, and hurried off in the direction of Long Arrow's house. I followed him.
We found our big friend lying on a grass bed outside his home, where he had been moved that he might ⑪*(punish : witness : consume : define) the holiday-making.
"Long Arrow," said the Doctor speaking quickly in eagle tongue so that the bystanders should not overhear, "in dire peril I come to you for help. These men would make me their king. If such a thing befall me, all the great work I hoped to ⑫(undone / do / go / must), for who is there unfreer than a king? I pray you speak with them and persuade their kind well-meaning hearts that what they plan to do would be unwise."
Long Arrow raised himself upon his elbow. "Oh Kindly One," said he (this seemed now to have become the usual manner of address when speaking to the Doctor), "sorely it grieves me that the first wish you ask of me I should be unable to ⑬**(grant : irritate : convert : speculate). Alas! I can do nothing. These people have so set their hearts on keeping you for king that if I tried to ⑭*(flourish : endure : achieve : interfere) they would drive me from their land and likely crown you in the end in any case. A king you must be, if only for a while. We must so arrange the business of governing that you may have time to give to Nature's secrets. Later we may be able to hit upon some plan to ⑮*(found : relieve : describe : arrange) you of the burden of the crown. But for now you must be king. These people are a headstrong tribe and they will have their way. There is no other course."
Sadly the Doctor turned away from the bed and faced about. And there behind him stood the old man again, the crown still held in his wrinkled hands and the royal litter waiting at his elbow. With a deep reverence the bearers motioned towards the seat of the chair, inviting the ⑯(to / white / get / man) in.
Once more the poor Doctor looked wildly, hopelessly about him for some means of escape. For a moment I thought he was going to take to his heels and run for it. But the crowd around us was far too ⑰*(thin : common : thick : lazy) and densely packed for anyone to break through it. A band of whistles and drums near by suddenly started the music of a ⑱**(weary : solemn : secure : multiple) processional march. He turned back pleadingly again to Long Arrow in a last ⑲*(task : notice : appeal :creature) for help. But the big Indian merely shook his head and pointed, like the bearers, to the waiting chair.
At last, almost in tears, John Dolittle stepped slowly into the litter and sat down. As he was hoisted on to the broad shoulders of the bearers I heard him still feebly ⑳(his / beneath / muttering / breath),
"Botheration take it!—I don't WANT to be a king!"
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。
※コメント投稿者のブログIDはブログ作成者のみに通知されます