大学入試や英検やTOEICに童話が出題されることはまず考えられないとはいえ、童話には英語の基礎がたっぷり詰まっています。童話を「読まずに」英語試験でいい結果を出すことはあっても、童話を「読めずに」英語試験でいい結果を出すことはまずありえません。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。
※(81)の解答①(perform)②(to making peace between)③(that were brought before) him④(ordinary)⑤(ignorant)⑥(host of other subjects)⑦(keen) ⑧(to make himself heard)⑨(attending)⑩(so unwilling to become)⑪(dignified)⑫(reign)⑬(preserved)⑭(round to look at)⑮(composed)⑯(landed on our shores)⑰(distress)⑱(leapt from cloudless skies)⑲(rejoiced)⑳(bless)
(82)
THE SECOND CHAPTER. THOUGHTS OF HOME
IN the Royal Palace Bumpo and I had a beautiful suite of rooms of our very own—which Polynesia, Jip and Chee-Chee shared with us.
Officially Bumpo was Minister of the Interior; while I was First Lord of the Treasury. Long Arrow also had quarters there; but at ①*(static : civil : academic : present) he was absent, traveling abroad.
One night after supper when the Doctor was away in the town somewhere visiting a new-born baby, we were all sitting round the big table in Bumpo's reception-room. This we did every evening, to talk over the plans for the following day and ②*(inevitable : various : dumb : voluntary) affairs of state. It was a kind of Cabinet Meeting.
To-night however we were talking about England—and also about things to eat. We had got a little ③(of / food / tired / Indian). You see, none of the natives knew how to cook; and we had the most discouraging time training a chef for the Royal Kitchen. Most of them were champions at ④*(bursting : healing : spoiling : conserving) good food. Often we got so hungry that the Doctor would ⑤(downstairs / us / sneak / with) into the palace basement, after all the cooks were safe in bed, and fry pancakes secretly over the dying embers of the fire. The Doctor himself was the ⑥(ever / cook / finest / that) lived. But he used to make a terrible mess of the kitchen; and of course we had to be awfully careful that we didn't get caught.
Well, as I was saying, to-night food was the ⑦(at / subject / discussion /of ) the Cabinet Meeting; and I had just been ⑧*(worrying : reminding : missing : deciding) Bumpo of the nice dishes we had had at the bed-maker's house in Monteverde.
"I tell you what I would like now," said Bumpo: "a large cup of cocoa with whipped cream on the top of it. In Oxford we used to be able to get the most wonderful cocoa. It is really too bad they haven't any cocoa-trees in this island, or ⑨(cream / give / to / cows)."
"When do you suppose," asked Jip, "the Doctor ⑩*(deals : intends : sustains : restores) to move on from here?"
"I was talking to him about that only yesterday," said Polynesia. "But I couldn't get any satisfactory ⑪(of / answer / him / out). He didn't seem to want to speak about it."
There was a ⑫*(code : virus : spectacle : pause) in the conversation.
"Do you know what I believe?" she added presently. "I believe the Doctor has given up even ⑬(going / of / home / thinking)."
"Good Lord!" cried Bumpo. "You don't say!"
"Sh!" said Polynesia. "What's that noise?"
We listened; and away off in the distant corridors of the palace we heard the sentries crying,
"The King!—Make way!—The King!"
"It's he—at last," whispered Polynesia—"late, as usual. Poor man, how he does work!—Chee-Chee, get the pipe and tobacco out of the cupboard and lay the dressing-gown ⑭(chair / ready / his / on)."
When the Doctor came into the room he looked ⑮*(typical : serious : mental : contemporary) and thoughtful. Wearily he took off his crown and hung it on a peg behind the door. Then he exchanged the royal cloak for the dressing-gown, dropped into his chair at the head of the table with a deep ⑯**(interval : core : donation : sigh) and started to fill his pipe.
"Well," asked Polynesia quietly, "how did you find the baby?"
"The baby?" he ⑰**(digested : murmured : sneezed : dared)—his thoughts still seemed to be very far away—"Ah yes. The baby was much better, thank you—It has cut its second tooth."
Then he was silent again, ⑱**(awaiting : staring : plunging : wandering) dreamily at the ceiling through a cloud of tobacco-smoke; while we all sat round quite still, waiting.
"We were wondering, Doctor," said I at last,—"just before you came in—when ⑲(would / you / starting / be) home again. We will have been on this island seven months to-morrow."
The Doctor sat forward in his ⑳(looking / uncomfortable / chair / rather).
※(81)の解答①(perform)②(to making peace between)③(that were brought before) him④(ordinary)⑤(ignorant)⑥(host of other subjects)⑦(keen) ⑧(to make himself heard)⑨(attending)⑩(so unwilling to become)⑪(dignified)⑫(reign)⑬(preserved)⑭(round to look at)⑮(composed)⑯(landed on our shores)⑰(distress)⑱(leapt from cloudless skies)⑲(rejoiced)⑳(bless)
(82)
THE SECOND CHAPTER. THOUGHTS OF HOME
IN the Royal Palace Bumpo and I had a beautiful suite of rooms of our very own—which Polynesia, Jip and Chee-Chee shared with us.
Officially Bumpo was Minister of the Interior; while I was First Lord of the Treasury. Long Arrow also had quarters there; but at ①*(static : civil : academic : present) he was absent, traveling abroad.
One night after supper when the Doctor was away in the town somewhere visiting a new-born baby, we were all sitting round the big table in Bumpo's reception-room. This we did every evening, to talk over the plans for the following day and ②*(inevitable : various : dumb : voluntary) affairs of state. It was a kind of Cabinet Meeting.
To-night however we were talking about England—and also about things to eat. We had got a little ③(of / food / tired / Indian). You see, none of the natives knew how to cook; and we had the most discouraging time training a chef for the Royal Kitchen. Most of them were champions at ④*(bursting : healing : spoiling : conserving) good food. Often we got so hungry that the Doctor would ⑤(downstairs / us / sneak / with) into the palace basement, after all the cooks were safe in bed, and fry pancakes secretly over the dying embers of the fire. The Doctor himself was the ⑥(ever / cook / finest / that) lived. But he used to make a terrible mess of the kitchen; and of course we had to be awfully careful that we didn't get caught.
Well, as I was saying, to-night food was the ⑦(at / subject / discussion /of ) the Cabinet Meeting; and I had just been ⑧*(worrying : reminding : missing : deciding) Bumpo of the nice dishes we had had at the bed-maker's house in Monteverde.
"I tell you what I would like now," said Bumpo: "a large cup of cocoa with whipped cream on the top of it. In Oxford we used to be able to get the most wonderful cocoa. It is really too bad they haven't any cocoa-trees in this island, or ⑨(cream / give / to / cows)."
"When do you suppose," asked Jip, "the Doctor ⑩*(deals : intends : sustains : restores) to move on from here?"
"I was talking to him about that only yesterday," said Polynesia. "But I couldn't get any satisfactory ⑪(of / answer / him / out). He didn't seem to want to speak about it."
There was a ⑫*(code : virus : spectacle : pause) in the conversation.
"Do you know what I believe?" she added presently. "I believe the Doctor has given up even ⑬(going / of / home / thinking)."
"Good Lord!" cried Bumpo. "You don't say!"
"Sh!" said Polynesia. "What's that noise?"
We listened; and away off in the distant corridors of the palace we heard the sentries crying,
"The King!—Make way!—The King!"
"It's he—at last," whispered Polynesia—"late, as usual. Poor man, how he does work!—Chee-Chee, get the pipe and tobacco out of the cupboard and lay the dressing-gown ⑭(chair / ready / his / on)."
When the Doctor came into the room he looked ⑮*(typical : serious : mental : contemporary) and thoughtful. Wearily he took off his crown and hung it on a peg behind the door. Then he exchanged the royal cloak for the dressing-gown, dropped into his chair at the head of the table with a deep ⑯**(interval : core : donation : sigh) and started to fill his pipe.
"Well," asked Polynesia quietly, "how did you find the baby?"
"The baby?" he ⑰**(digested : murmured : sneezed : dared)—his thoughts still seemed to be very far away—"Ah yes. The baby was much better, thank you—It has cut its second tooth."
Then he was silent again, ⑱**(awaiting : staring : plunging : wandering) dreamily at the ceiling through a cloud of tobacco-smoke; while we all sat round quite still, waiting.
"We were wondering, Doctor," said I at last,—"just before you came in—when ⑲(would / you / starting / be) home again. We will have been on this island seven months to-morrow."
The Doctor sat forward in his ⑳(looking / uncomfortable / chair / rather).
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