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2020（令和 2）年度

東北学院高等学校入学試験問題＜一般Ｂ日程＞英語

2020（令和 2）年 2 月 6 日（木）12：50 ～ 13：40（50 分間）

注意事項
１．受験番号・氏名を解答用紙にはっきり記入すること。
２．解答は，すべて解答用紙に記入すること。
３．解答用紙だけを提出すること。

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Ⅲ １～５の各単語で、最も強く読む部分をア〜ウから１つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
□１ fa - vor - iteｱｲ

２ mu - si - cianｳｱ

４ ex - pen - siveｱｲｲ

３ vol - un - teerｳｱｲｳ

５ sud - den - lyｳｱｲｳ

Ⅳ １～３の英文中の（ ）に入る最も適切な語（句）をア～エから１つ選び、記号で□答えなさい。
１ The movie made me ().

exciteexcitedアイ

２ I can’t play the piano. He (アcanイエ

to exciteウ

playエplays), either.

can’t

３ He will come back after he (excitingウ).

ア

finished workingイfinishes working

ウwill finish to workエwill finish working

Ⅴ 例題を参考にして、１～３の各英文の空所に英文字を補い、英文を完成させなさい。
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なお、マス（□）１つにつき、１文字が入ります。

例題A c is a group of students who are taught together.

１ A trophy is often given to a (w).
２ A customer is a person who buys (g) or services at a store.
３ Exports are things sent to another country for (s).
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正解 class

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Ⅷ １～３の文に［ ］の語（句）を正しく並べかえて入れるとき、①と②に入るもの□を記号で答えなさい。
１ I will①[ ア clean / イ him / ウ not only
２ The/ エ tell①

[ ア book on３ Hethe room.

②①②[ ア a famous/ イ bought a/ カ you but also ].

②/ イ his / ウ is / エ over/ オ to/ オ the desk

/ カ there ]artist.
/ ウ by/ エ painted / オ picture/ カ which was ]Ⅷ １～４の各文章は主に何について書かれていますか。最も適切なものをア～エからⅨ□１つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
１ Artificial light is very useful in our daily life.

We usually use it indoors.

outside at night, too. But it also causes some problems.
enjoy the beautiful sky at night.

It can be seen

If it is too bright outside, we can’t

And also some wild animals can’t sleep well.

These are sobad that we should think about the way to use artificial light.
ア Light pollution.
イ Our daily life.
ウ Stars.
エ Wild animals.
２ Beach volleyball games were first held in the early 1920s in the United States. It quickly
spread all over the world.
simple.

There are three reasons for this.

First, the rules of the game are very

Second, setting up a beach volleyball court and a net doesn’t take much time.

only two players are needed for making a team.
ア How we set up a beach volleyball court and a net.
イ When beach volleyball was first played.
ウ Where beach volleyball was first played.
エ Why beach volleyball quickly became popular around the world.
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Temperature in City A and City B
35℃

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City A Low Temp.

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Rainfall in City A and City B
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Ⅷ 次の英文を読んで、あとの設問に答えなさい。
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When Spencer Silver, a scientist working at *3M Company, discovered a new kind of(1)adhesive, nobody thought it was great.

His job was to discover stronger adhesives.

But

Silver’s new adhesive was very weak, so it didn’t work well.
Though Silver thought his new adhesive must be useful, nobody could discover the way to useit.

At 3M, Silver always talked about his adhesive because (2)he wanted everyone to be interested

in it.

But after a few years, most people stopped listening. No one was very interested, no one

had any ideas, and people started to call him “(3)Mr. Persistent” because he never gave up.
(4)When someone tries to make something new, the bright idea sometimes comes from apersonal need. Art Fry also worked at 3M. He heard about the adhesive that Silver discovered.
Like everyone else, he had no idea of the way to use it until one day in church. Fry was singing in
the church chorus he belonged to. He stopped singing to take a rest. He put a piece of paper in

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his hymn book to mark the pages. But when he opened the book, (5)it fell out.

He thought, “Oh,I want to keep this on the page and then take it off without breaking the page. I want a new kindof glue.”

Then he remembered his friend “Mr. Persistent” – there was a way!

By putting Fry’s idea together with Silver’s adhesive, they had a great product idea. But theroad to the finished product was (6).

It took about 12 years to perfect the adhesive anddevelop ways of using it well. But their hard work (7)paid off.
little paper Post-it notes are a part of your day-to-day life.

If you work in an office, those

They’re so useful that 3M makes 50

billion of them every year.
Silver says that he feels proud when he sees Post-it notes on computers in the movies.
shows that (8)Post-it notes have become a part of popular culture.
bookmark.

ThisAnd Fry says, “It’s not just aIt’s a whole new way of communicating.”*3M Company

出典 『Mr.Persistent』より（Seventeen Motivational Business Stories in English）
3M 社（アメリカの会社名）

１ 下線部(1)を本文の内容から推測して日本語に直しなさい。
２ 下線部(2)の内容を最も適切に表すものをア～エから１つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
ア Everyone’s wish was that Silver would be interested in his adhesive.
イ Everyone’s wish was that Silver would be interested in 3M.
ウ Silver’s wish was that everyone would be interested in his adhesive.
エ Silver’s wish was that everyone would be interested in 3M.
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下線部(3)を「ミスター４

下線部(4)の内容を最も適切に表すものをア～エから１つ選び、記号で答えなさい。

」と直すとき、に入る日本語を４文字以内で答えなさい。

ア

新しいものを作るときに、素晴らしいアイディアが個人のニーズを生み出した。

イ

新しいものを作ろうとするときに、個人のニーズから素晴らしいアイディアが生まれることがある。

ウ

個人のニーズから素晴らしいアイディアが生まれるには、新しいものを作る努力を必要とする。

エ

何かを新しくするときに必要になるのは、素晴らしいアイディアと個人のニーズである。

５

下線部(5)が指す語句を、本文中から２語以上で抜き出して答えなさい。

６

文中の（ア clear6）に入る最も適切な語をア～エから１つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
イ closed

ウ longエ wide７

下線部(7)を本文の内容から推測して日本語に直しなさい。

８

下線部(8)と言える根拠として最も適切なものをア～エから１つ選び、記号で答えなさい。

９ア

Post-it notes が映画の一場面でも使われているから。

イ

Post-it notes がしおりとして使われることが定着しているから。

ウ

Fry と一緒に Post-it notes を完成させることができたから。

エ3M が年間 500 億枚も Post-it notes を生産しているから。

本文の内容と一致するものをア～オから全て選び、記号で答えなさい。
ア

At first, nobody found any useful ways to use Silver’s new discovery.

イ

Fry had a great idea without using Silver’s new discovery.

ウ

Fry says that Post-it notes are not a communication tool but a bookmark.

エFry was a member of his church chorus.

オ

Silver didn’t work well as a scientist at 3M Company.

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