英語（２期）- 1 2024 ②

英語（２期）

第１問
次の問 1〜5 の定義で表される語としてもっとも適切なものを，次の①〜④からそれぞれ一つずつ選べ。

問 1 an area or arena where commercial dealings are conducted
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① contract② advertisement③ currency④ market② elementary③ endangered④ emotional

問 2 simple or basic
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① elective

問 3 the outside part or top layer of something
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① crater

問4② foundation④ surfacea class or group of people or things sharing similar characteristics

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① inventory

問5③ shelf② category③ diversity④ catalog

keep something at the same level or rate, or in good condition

解答番号① improve5 .
② maintain③ modify④ follow- 2 2024 ②

第２問
次の問 1〜4 の会話の（）に入れるのにもっとも適切なものを，後の①〜④からそれぞれ一つずつ選べ。

問 1 X： Do you think I’ll need a sweater tomorrow?
Y：（解答番号）6 .

① Yes, you should buy it for me.
② Only if you can finish it before then.
③ No. It’s not supposed to be cold.
④ Maybe we can share it.

問 2 X：（）

Y： Sure. I could eat.
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① Do you want to grab a bite?
② Is it okay if we reschedule our meeting?
③ Are you cooking now?
④ Have you bought groceries?

問 3 X： Your credit card has been declined. Do you have another form ofpayment?
Y：（解答番号）
8 .

① You shouldn’t have to ask twice.
② I always eat for free on Fridays.
③ Give the bill to another table.
④ Do you accept traveler’s checks?

- 3 2024 ②

問 4 X： Excuse me. The play will be starting in a few minutes.
Y：（解答番号）
9 .

① Really? I bought tickets yesterday.
② I am still waiting for my newspaper delivery.
③ OK. We will go sit down.
④ I haven’t been to a rugby game in a while.

- 4 2024 ②

第３問
次の英文を読み，問 1〜4 に答えよ。＊印には語注がある。

It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I
was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations, such as photographsof relevant *Civil War *manuscripts. But, he continued, those weren’t very helpful tohim, because of course he couldn’t read *cursive.
Had I heard him correctly? Who else can’t read cursive? I asked the class. Theanswer: about two-thirds. And who can’t write it? Even more. Amused by myastonishment, the students offered reflections about the place — or absence — of（※） in their lives. Instead of the Civil War past, we found ourselves

exploring a different set of historical changes. In my ignorance, I became their pupilｉ）

and a *Rip van Winkle confronting a transformed world.
In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national *Common Core standards for*K-12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere inelementary school. Handwriting instruction had already been declining as laptops andtablets and lessons in “keyboarding” assumed an ever more prominent place in theclassroom.
All of us, not just students and scholars, will be affected by cursive’s loss. The
inability to read handwriting deprives society of direct access to its own past.
We will become reliant on a small group of trained translators and experts to reportii）

what history — including the documents and papers of our own families — was about.
The spread of literacy in the early modern West was driven by people’s desire to readGod’s word for themselves, to be empowered by an experience of unmediatedconnection. The abandonment of cursive represents a curious reverse parallel: We arelosing a connection, and thereby *disempowering ourselves.

Faust, DG. (2022) ‘Gen Z never learned to read cursive’, The Atlantic [online], 16
September 2022. より引用（一部改変）- 5 2024 ②

［注］Civil War：南北戦争
cursive：筆記体

manuscript：（手書きの）原稿

Rip van Winkle：時代遅れの人

Common Core standards：アメリカの子どもの学習基準
K-12 education：幼稚園から高校卒業までの教育
disempower：〜を無力化する

問 1 本文中の空所（※ ）に入れるのにもっとも適切な語を，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① handwriting② classrooms③ photographs④ laptops

問 2 本文中の下線部ｉ）exploring の意味としてもっとも適切なものを，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① printing② traveling③ studying④ producing

問 3 本文中の下線部 ii）We will become reliant on の意味としてもっとも適切なものを，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① 我々は依存するようになる② 我々はさらなる発展を成し遂げる③ 我々は自由になる④ 我々は協力し合えるようになる- 6 2024 ②

問 4 本文の内容と一致するものを，次の①〜⑤から二つ選べ。解答は順不同とする。
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① 筆記体が読めない学生の割合は筆記体が書けない学生の割合を上回る。
② 聖書の内容に直接触れることが西洋の文化圏における読み書き能力を普及させた動機の一つだった。
③ 現在，アメリカの学習基準から筆記体の教育が完全に除外されている。
④ 学生は南北戦争の手書きの原稿を読解し，教材として活用していた。
⑤ 現在において筆記体よりパソコン等の利用が重要視され，教育現場でも優先されているが，筆記体ができなくても不自由はない。

- 7 2024 ②

第４問
次のＡ，Ｂに答えよ。

Ａ 次の掲示を読み，問 1，問 2 に答えよ。
REMEMBER

During free hours you can freely access the temporary exhibitions withthe entrance to the museum.

To visit the museum in a group, you must buy the tickets at least 24
hours in advance (72 hours in the case of private visits from 9 am to10 am).

Children under 14 years old must be accompanied by an adult.

Photographs and recording are not permitted, and eating and drinking
is not allowed except in the authorised spaces.

Cloakroom capacity is limited.

Museo Nacional del Prado (https://www.museodelprado.es/) より引用（一部改変）

問 1 REMEMBER の意味としてもっとも適切なものを，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① 来館前，注意を要する事項② 来館時，意識するべき事項③ 入館前，同意が必要な事項④ 予約時，記録するべき事項

問 2 内容について正しいものを，次の①〜⑤から二つ選べ。解答は順不同とする。
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① 許可された場所のみ，写真を撮影することができる。
② 午後の貸切利用は来館の 72 時間前までにチケットを購入する必要がある。
③ 14 歳の者が来館の際には大人の同行人がいなければならない。
④ 入館のチケットで企画展への入場もできる。
⑤ 荷物預かり所で荷物を預けられないことがある。
- 8 2024 ②

Ｂ 次の英文を読み，問 1〜3 に答えよ。＊印には語注がある。
Standing at 8,849 meters, Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea levelin the world. Everest is part of the Himalaya, which spans 2,400 kilometers and runs
through six countries in Asia.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people known to reachthe *summit of Mount Everest in 1953. Since then, thousands of visitors have flocked
to the mountain, and it is starting to take its toll. Today, Everest is so overcrowded andfull of trash that it has been called the “world’s highest garbage dump.”
Over 600 people attempt to *summit Mount Everest every climbing season during
the few weeks of the year when weather conditions are just right. In addition, for every
climber there is at least one local worker who cooks, carries equipment, and guides
the expedition. Each of those climbers spends weeks on the mountain, adjusting tothe *altitude at a series of camps before advancing to the summit. During that time,each person （ ※ ）, on average, around eight kilograms of trash, and the majorityof this waste gets left on the mountain. The slopes are littered with discarded empty
oxygen canisters, abandoned tents, food containers, and even human *feces. All thatwaste is trashing the natural environment, and it poses a serious health risk toeveryone who lives in the Everest *watershed.
In the Tibetan language, Mount Everest is called “Chomolungma”, which means“goddess mother of the world.” To the *Sherpa people, the mountain is a *sacred place,deserving of dignity and respect. This was once a *pristine landscape, but *hordes ofclimbers and poor waste management have turned it into a polluted mess. However,there is hope that organizations like the SPCC and the Mount Everest Biogas Project,with the help of climbers and the Nepali government, can restore the world’s highest
peak to its former glory.

National Geographic Education (https://education.nationalgeographic.org)より引用（一部改変）- 9 2024 ②

［注］summit：(名)山頂，頂上；(動)登頂する
feces：排泄物

altitude：高度，標高

watershed：分水嶺（ぶんすいれい）

Sherpa：ネパール東部の高地に住む，チベット系の民族
sacred：神聖な問 1 本文中の空所（pristine：清純なhorde：大群，大勢※ ）に入れるのにもっとも適切な語を，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① generates② cleans③ consumes④ improves

問 2 エベレスト山の登山者に関して当てはまる内容としてもっとも適切なものを，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① climbers spend weeks continuously climbing the mountain② most of the trash climbers produce is removed from the mountain③ waste produced by climbers may be bad for people’s health④ climbers produce at least eight kilograms of trash

問 3 本文の題名としてもっとも適切なものを，次の①〜④から一つ選べ。
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① Trash and Overcrowding at the Top of the World② Tourism on Mount Everest③ 600 Adventures on the World’s Highest Peak
④ Recycling on the “Goddess Mother of the World”- 10 2024 ②