第1問
His statement couldn't be further from the truth.
この英文の意味は「彼の発言は( )」である。
この英文の意味は「彼の発言は( )」である。
正解は:
His statement couldn't be further from the truth.
第2問
After many years of putting too much emphasis on reading, the pendulum swung in the opposite direction and people started to stress listening and speaking ( ) reading.
正解は:
After many years of putting too much emphasis on reading, the pendulum swung in the opposite direction and people started to stress listening and speaking reading.
(長年リーディング重視が続いた後、振り子が逆に振れて、人々はリスニングやスピーキングを重視し始め、リーディングを軽視するまでに至ってしまった。)
第3問
I don't know ( ) it is about this movie that attracts so many people.
正解は:
I don't know it is about this movie that attracts so many people.
(この映画の一体何がそんなに多くの人を惹きつけるのかわからない。)
第4問
We have tried to respond to every comment, ( ) it a criticism or a compliment.
正解は:
We have tried to respond to every comment, it a criticism or a compliment.
(批判であれ、お世辞であれ、すべてのコメントに応えようとしてきた。)
第5問
( ) did he cover up his tracks that nobody would have noticed that he had been there had she not spoken up.
正解は:
did he cover up his tracks that nobody would have noticed that he had been there had she not spoken up.
(彼は極めて巧妙に自分の足跡を隠したので、彼女が話さなければ誰も彼がそこにいたことに気づかなかっただろう。)
第6問
By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
―John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
後半のpain, and the privation of pleasureは( ) である。
―John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
後半のpain, and the privation of pleasureは( ) である。
正解は:
By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
―John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
―John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
第7問
She rose, and I was again conscious of that quick, questioning glance with which she had just surveyed us. "What impression has my evidence made upon you?" The question might as well have been spoken.
―Arthur Conan Doyle: The Valley of Fear
"What...you"という問いを発したのは( )である。
―Arthur Conan Doyle: The Valley of Fear
"What...you"という問いを発したのは( )である。
正解は:
She rose, and I was again conscious of that quick, questioning glance with which she had just surveyed us. "What impression has my evidence made upon you?" The question might as well have been spoken.―Arthur Conan Doyle: The Valley of Fear
第8問
Whatever qualities he himself had acquired without difficulty, he seems to have supposed that I ought to acquire as easily.
―John Stuart Mill: Autobiography
文頭のWhatever節は( )である。
―John Stuart Mill: Autobiography
文頭のWhatever節は( )である。
正解は:
Whatever qualities he himself had acquired without difficulty, he seems to have supposed that I ought to acquire as easily.
―John Stuart Mill: Autobiography
―John Stuart Mill: Autobiography
第9問
Should a necessity suddenly arise for prompt and immediate action, that Lessingham would prove a hindrance rather than a help I felt persuaded.
―Richard Marsh: The Beetleこの文の主節の主語は( )である。
―Richard Marsh: The Beetleこの文の主節の主語は( )である。
正解は:
Should a necessity suddenly arise for prompt and immediate action, that Lessingham would prove a hindrance rather than a help I felt persuaded.
―Richard Marsh: The Beetle
―Richard Marsh: The Beetle
第10問
But he would listen to no such thing. We had been sent to be their guests, he said, and their guests we should remain for so long as might be convenient to us. Would we lay upon them the burden of the sin of inhospitality?
―Henry Rider Haggard: Ayesha
"Would we...inhospitality?"という疑問文は( )に向けられたものである。
―Henry Rider Haggard: Ayesha
"Would we...inhospitality?"という疑問文は( )に向けられたものである。
正解は:
But he would listen to no such thing. We had been sent to be their guests, he said, and their guests we should remain for so long as might be convenient to us. Would we lay upon them the burden of the sin of inhospitality?
―Henry Rider Haggard: Ayesha
―Henry Rider Haggard: Ayesha