2024年度・学力考査問題（高校第２回）

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【英語】

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問題は 13 ページで 1 から 8 まであります。開始の合図で必ず確認し，そろっていない場合にはすぐに手をあげなさい。
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記述問題において句読点は１字扱いとします。また，数字は１けたにつき１字扱いとします。
（例：「２０２４年」は５字）

１ だし，与えられた文字で始まる語を書くこと。
次の英文の下線部①～⑤の（）に入れるのに最もふさわしい語を答えなさい。たCharles Schulz was born in Minnesota, USA, in 1922 .   When he was a young boy, hewanted to become a comic ①（a）.  He took art lessons and drew comics when he was ahigh school student.  Schulz began drawing the Peanuts comic in October 1950 .  It was aboutchildren and a dog.  At first, it was only published in seven newspapers, and he earned only
$ 90 a month.  The comics became more and more ②（p）in the 1950 s and 1960 s.  Many

people loved Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the other Peanuts characters.   Soon there werePeanuts books, toys, and TV animations.   Since then, Peanuts has been published in 75
countries and more than 20 ③（ltrue.  He retired in ⑤（D）, including Japanese.  Charles Schulz’s ④（d）1999 .  He drew 17 , 897 Peanuts comics in total.

高2－1－）came２ １つずつ選び，番号で答えなさい。
次の⒜～⒠の文で，（⒜I（）Chinese since I was a child, but I can hardly speak it.

1．study⒝Mr. Brown（
1．allowed⒞I wish I（

3．am studying

4．have been studying）me use his smartphone.
2．let

3．agreed

4．got

2．have

3．had

4．will have

3．Where4．Which）is the new teacher like?
1．What⒠2．studied）a driving license.

1．having⒟ （）に入れるのに最もふさわしいものを１～４の中からI practiced（
1．to win

2．How）the first prize in the contest.
2．winning

高2

3．win－2－4．won３ １つずつ選び，番号で答えなさい。
次の⒜～⒠の会話文で ,（⒜）に入れるのに最もふさわしいものを１～４の中から

Ａ：How was your vacation, Yumiko?
Ｂ：I went to Hokkaido to see my grandparents.
Ａ：Oh, really?  （）Ｂ：For a week.  That was my best vacation ever.

1．Why did you go there?
2．How long did you stay there?
3．How many times have you been there?
4．When was your first time to visit them?

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Ａ：Have you seen my smartphone, Mom?
Ｂ：No, I haven’t.  （）Ａ：I don’t remember.  On my bed, I think.

1．Where did you use it last?
2．Where have you found it?
3．Why are you looking for it?
4．Why do you ask me?

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Ａ：Excuse me, when does the next train for Shinjuku Station leave?
Ｂ：In five minutes.  
Ａ：Thanks, and could you tell me（）?

Ｂ：Platform 4.  It’s downstairs.

1．where the station is
2．how to get there
3．where it leaves from
4．where it’s going

高2－3－

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Ａ：Dad, I’m working on my report about future cars.
Ｂ：Sounds interesting.  （）Ａ：Well, there’s a lot of information about the future of cars on the Internet.

1．Where do you use a computer?
2．How can you find out about them?
3．When will you finish the report?
4．Why do you want to have such a car?

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Ａ：Shall we go to the school festival this Saturday?
Ｂ：（）  I have to help my mom this weekend.

Ａ：Oh, that’s a pity!  It’s going to be a lot of fun this year.

1．I’m sorry I can’t.
2．That’s a great idea.
3．Yes, I go every year.
4．I won’t be late.

４ 入れるのに最もふさわしい語をそれぞれ答えなさい。

次の⒜～⒞の日本文の意味に合うように英文をつくるとき，（⒜卒業してもずっと連絡をとろうね！
Let’s keep in（⒝イ）（ロ）graduation!

同じ間違いをするなんて，私はなんて不注意なのでしょう。
How careless（⒞イイ）me（ロ）was to make the same mistakes!

彼は結局，医者に診てもらうことになった。
He（イ）up（ロ）the doctor.

高2－4－）（ロ）に

５ ものをそれぞれ番号で答えなさい。

次の⒜～⒞の日本文に合うように１～７を並べかえたとき，（⒜⒝）（ロ）に入れる

うちの庭にはあなたのところほど花はないわ。
There are not（）（

1．my garden

2．as

3．yours

5．flowers

6．in

7．as inイ）（）（）（ロ）（）（）.

4．many私の母は毎日弟に勉強するように言うことに飽き飽きしている。
My mother（⒞イ）
（イ）
（）
（）
（1．study

2．my brother

3．of

5．is

6．to

7．tiredロ）（）（）every day.

4．telling

近い将来，きっと科学者たちは地球に似た惑星を発見すると思う。
I’m（）（）（）（イ）（）（ロ）（）the earth in thenear future.
1．a planet

2．to

3．will discover

5．that6．scientists

7．sure６ 番通りに用いること。

次の日本文を英語に直しなさい。なお，（）内に与えられた語をそのままの形で順

先週私がお貸しした本はいかがですか。（ How / like / I ）高2－5－

4．similar

７ 次の英文を読み，設問に答えなさい。
Alvin was in trouble again.   This time it was because Vincent pushed him hard so hepushed him back.   Then, Mr. Lee, the mathematics teacher, shouted and sent Alvin out of
the classroom.  Alvin thought it was really unfair because Vincent was not sent out but sat
at his desk and smiled.  This kind of thing was always happening to him.  People seemed to*pick on him even in his family.   For example, mum and dad were always *nagging him to
do his homework but then even when he did it, they still wanted him to stay in and do more
schoolwork（イ）having fun with Jay, Rick, Vincent, and the other boys.   His life wasmade even more difficult by Amy, his older sister, now a university student, because sheused to get school prizes for excellent performance.   How could he ever hope to *competewith that?
Trouble just seemed to follow him everywhere and he was getting a bad *reputation at
school mostly because of his friends.  It was a case of（ロ）‘give a dog a bad name and hanghim.’  That is, he and his friends liked to *mess around and got a bit noisy sometimes.  Theywere not doing anything wrong but because they broke school rules once or twice in thepast, teachers always thought they must be doing something bad and would shout or send
them to see Mr. Perry, the Principal.  Such *injustice made the boys, especially Alvin, very
angry.  He really did not like people who picked on others for no good reason.
He saw an example of this on his way home from school one day.  He was coming out of
the sweet shop with a chocolate bar in his mouth when he *came across a group of olderboys.   They were surrounding a small boy who was wearing the uniform of the expensive
private school in the town.  He looked scared.  One of the boys pushed him and the others
began to move closer and closer to the small boy.  
Alvin had no love for the rich, *snobbish students from the private school but he did not
like to do nothing when someone was *bullied in front of him.  He pushed one of the boys tothe side and took the small boy by the arm.
“Leave him alone, won’t you?  He’s just a little kid?  What’s the matter, guys?（ハ）Toochicken to take on someone your own size?”A *fist landed on his mouth.   Blood *spurted and the group laughed nervously.   Their*hesitation gave Alvin and the small boy a chance of（高2－6－ニ）.

They walked away fast and then（ホ）the little boy began to run ahead of Alvin.   Heturned back.
“What’s your name?”“Alvin.”While Alvin continued on his way, he felt good about himself even if his mouth was cut
and *bruised.   In addition, his parents did not shout when they saw his bloody mouth but
listened to his story.   At the end, they smiled and said he did a good thing.   However, thegood feeling was quickly removed when he entered his school the next morning.   ThePrincipal was standing at the main entrance.
“Have you been fighting again Alvin?”
Alvin touched his bruised mouth and began to feel angry but then saw that Mr. Perry
was looking at him in a friendly way.
“I heard about your good act.”
Alvin was surprised that news travelled so fast.
“The boy you helped was my son James.   When he said someone called Alvin saved
him, I knew it was you.  So well done boy and thank you!  It was a brave thing to do andyou should be proud of yourself.”
Alvin smiled, thanked him in a small voice and thought that perhaps（ヘ）there was somejustice in the world after all.

【注】 pick on ～をいじめる

nag ～にうるさく言う

compete with ～と張り合う

reputation 評判

mess around じゃれ合うinjustice 不公平

come across ～に偶然出くわす

snobbish お高くとまった

bully ～をいじめる

fist こぶしspurt 吹き出る

hesitation ためらい

bruised あざがついた

高2－7－

［設問］
⒜

空所（イ）に入れるのに最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．instead of⒝2．by

3．because of

4．after

下線部（ロ）の意味として最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．You may get a bad reputation if you fail to train your dog.
2．When you already have a bad reputation, it is difficult to change it.
3．You should never worry too much about your bad reputation.
4．Always be honest, or one day you will get a bad reputation.

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下線部（ハ）の意味として最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．「自分と背格好が似ている子どもしか相手にできない弱虫なのか」2．「体の大きさの割に，ニワトリみたいに騒いでいるだけなのか」3．「自分たちより小さい者しかいじめられない臆病なやつなのか」4．「同じくらい体が大きい俺を前にして，鳥肌が立っているのか」⒟

空所（ニ）に入れるのに最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．attack

2．escape

3．talk高2－8－

4．stay⒠ 下線部（ホ）の人物が父親に話したと考えられる内容として最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．“When I was eating a chocolate bar, a big group of boys came around me, butsomeone called Alvin came and saved me!”2．“Alvin’s group came around me outside the sweet shop, but he suddenly decided torun away from his friends with me!”3．“While Alvin was eating a chocolate bar, he was surrounded by a group of boys, so
I gave him a hand!”4．“I was surrounded by a group of big boys outside the sweet shop, but suddenly aboy named Alvin appeared and helped me!”⒡

下線部（ヘ）について Alvinがこのように思い直した理由を「少年」と「評価」という言葉を使って，20字以上 30字以内の日本語で説明しなさい。

⒢

本文の内容と一致するものを次の１～６の中から２つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．Alvin always behaved well but many people picked on him.
2．Amy’s success at school added more difficulties to Alvin’s life.
3．Alvin and his friends were sent to see Mr. Perry because they kept breaking
school rules.
4．Before Alvin’s parents realized that their son was injured, they were proud of him.
5．The next day Mr. Perry was waiting for Alvin in order to talk about the great
action he took.
6．Alvin was surprised when he heard that the boy who bullied him was the child of
the Principal.

高2－9－

８ 次の英文を読み，設問に答えなさい。
When we were children, we were told that we should not lie.  Yet, experts say that mostof us lie all the time.  We even lie about lying when we say we don’t lie very much.  Children
begin to lie when they are very young — perhaps even a two-year-old child lies.  And we keep
lying *throughout our lives.   Telling two or three lies in a 10 -minute conversation is not
unusual.   They are usually not big, serious lies.   We tell ourselves that they are not soimportant.  We call them white lies because they don’t really hurt anyone.
We say we should not lie, but most of us lie quite a lot.  Why is there a big *gap between
should and do?  Probably because lying is very useful — so useful that we often break our ownrules.  We lie for many reasons, but the main reason is to protect someone or something.  Welie to protect ourselves, to protect our *interests, and to protect our image.   We lie to avoid*punishment and to make others think we are intelligent or important.  However, we also lie
to protect others.  We lie because the truth would be too difficult or *painful for them.  People
don’t want to hear that they look old or that they did a bad job.  They don’t want to hear that
their new shirt looks bad.  （イ）all the time can be *rude or unkind.  （ロ）helps us

keep and protect our relationships.   For these reasons, we even teach our children that it issometimes（ハ）to tell these white lies.

However,（ニ）protecting ourselves and others is not the whole story.  The decision totell a lie is not always *logical.  You might think, for example, that people *are more likely tolie if they believe no one will discover their lie.  You might also think that people are more
likely to lie if they will receive money as a result.  Yet, research shows that being in（ホ）thesesituations doesn’t seem to be the greatest reason for people to lie.
*Psychology professor Dan Ariely has studied more than 30 , 000 people in order todiscover what *factors are most important in lying.  He did several experiments.  In the firstexperiment, he gave *participants a piece of paper with 20 sets of numbers (see Figure).  He
asked them to try to find two numbers with a *sum of 10 in each set.  Participants had fiveminutes to complete the task.   Then they had to report how many sums of 10 they found.  
Ariely paid them for each one.  Most participants found four.  Then he told participants in
one group to *tear up their papers after the experiment but before they reported theirresults.  Suddenly everyone in that group became a little bit（of six sums.  If they had a chance to lie, they did.

高2－ 10 －へ）.  They found an averageFigure  Which two numbers in each set add up to ten?
Set 1

Set 2
1 . 691 . 822 . 91

1 . 001 . 82

2 . 014 . 674 . 81

3 . 054 . 874 . 81

3 . 055 . 825 . 064 . 285 . 825 . 084 . 26

6 . 365 . 194 . 57

8 . 385 . 194 . 57

Then, in the second and third experiments, Ariely changed the conditions to find out
what would influence participants to lie more or to lie less.  He found that（ト）some conditions
made very little difference.  Almost everyone lied a bit to get a little more money, but very
few people lied a lot to get a lot more money.  In fact, participants were more likely to lie if
the *reward was plastic money.   The *probability of discovery was not important to themeither.   In the third experiment, they tore up only half of their scores.   This condition
increased the probability of discovery, but the amount of lying did not decrease very much.
However, there are some conditions that influenced the amount of lying.   Ariely did a
final set of experiments and found the *following results: If participants saw that someone
else lied and got more money, they lied more.  If Ariely told them that someone else would
get more reward if they performed well, they lied more.  Participants were also more likely
to lie if they were tired.   On the other hand, when the researcher told participants in the
beginning of the experiment that it was important to be honest about their performance,
they lied much less.   They also lied less when they had to *sign a paper that said theiranswers were the truth.
So, with all of these lies, how can you know if someone is lying to you?  We are actually
better at lying than at realizing when other people are lying.   If the research on lying iscorrect, you can say that you probably hear many lies every day without（【注】 throughout ～を通してずっとgap 相違，ずれinterest 利益

punishment 罰

rude 無礼なlogical 論理的な

painful つらいbe likely to ～しそうである［する可能性がある］

psychology 心理学

factor 要因

sum 合計

participant 参加者

tear up ～を引き裂く（過去形：tore up）

reward 報酬

probability 可能性

sign ～に署名する

following 以下の高2－ 11 －チ）it.

［設問］
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空所（イ）（ロ）（ハ）に入れる語（句）の組み合わせとして，最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．（イ）Lying（ロ）Telling the truth

2．（イ）Telling the truth      （ロ）Lying（ハ）dangerous

3．（イ）Lying（ハ）dangerous（ロ）Telling the truth

4．（イ）Telling the truth      （ロ）Lying⒝（ハ）necessary（ハ）necessary

下線部（ニ）の意味として最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．Protecting ourselves or others is not the only reason for people to lie.
2．We may often lie, but the stories we tell someone are not always lies.
3．People who lie to protect themselves or others don’t say everything.
4．Lying can protect you and other things, but it cannot protect everything.

⒞

下線部（ホ）の具体的な内容を 20字以上 40字以内の日本語で答えなさい。

⒟

空所（へ）に入れるものとして最もふさわしいものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．harder⒠2．smarter

3．more honest

4．more nervous

下線部（ト）の some conditionsに含まれるものとして当てはまるものを次の１～４の中から１つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．報酬の金額を減らされること。
2．報酬としておもちゃのお金をもらえること。
3．嘘を見抜かれる可能性が高まること。
4．結果を報告しなくてもよいこと。

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空所（チ）に入れるのにふさわしい１語を，本文中より抜き出して書きなさい。

高2－ 12 －⒢本文の内容と一致するものを次の１～６の中から２つ選び，番号で答えなさい。
1．Most of us lie so often that saying we don’t lie very much itself can be a lie.
2．We are taught that we can tell a lie to protect ourselves or to avoid punishment.
3．Some people think intelligent and important people sometimes need to lie.
4．The experiments by Ariely show how important telling lies is in our daily lives.
5．People don’t tell a lie when they find it will be useful to someone else.
6．The experiment shows that people are less likely to lie after they promise thatthey will not lie.

高2

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