Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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Why do Japanese study hardest before, notduring, college?
どうして日本人は、大学入学後ではなく、入学前に真剣に勉強するの？

Why does America have "ladies ﬁrst"?
どうしてアメリカには ladies first の習慣があるの？

Why are Japanese obsessed withbrand names?
どうして日本人はブランド名にとらわれるの？

Why are so many Americans overweight?
どうして非常に多くのアメリカ人は体重オーバーなの？

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Why are American state capitals often
small cities?
どうしてアメリカの州都はしばしば小さいの？

Why do Japanese open gifts so slowly?
どうして日本人は贈り物をとてもゆっくりと開くの？

Why does America go to war with so manycountries?
どうしてアメリカは非常に多くの国々と戦争するの？

Review of Units 6 through 10

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Why does Japan subsidize farmers?
どうして日本は農家に補助金を与えるの？

Why do Americans think their way is theonly way?

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Review of Units 1 through 530

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どうして日本は捕鯨を支援するの？

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どうしてアメリカ人は遠慮なく話すの？

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どうしてアメリカは人々に銃を所有させるの？

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どうして日本人はもっと英語が話せないの？

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Why do Japanese do things in groups?
どうして日本人は物事をグループで行うの？

Why are Americans so outspoken?

Why can't more Japanese speak English?

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どうしてアメリカ人は自分たちの方法が唯一の方法だと考えるの？

Why does Japan support whaling?

Why do Americans let people own guns?

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本書 の 使 い 方

How to Use the Book

本書は、アメリカ人の学生 Jane からの「日本文化にかかわる 7 つの質問」と、日本人の学生
Hiroshi からの「アメリカ文化にかかわる 7 つの質問」から成っています。それぞれの Unit は、5 つのセクションで構成されています。

3Hiroshi’s (Jane’s) Answer

CDlistening

最初のセクションには、「それぞれの Unit で使われる語句に慣れる」ためのものです。その後に 2つの英文̶1 つは質問、もう 1 つはその回答̶が登場し、それぞれ 3 問の「内容理解の選択式問題」が続きます。
4 番目のセクションは、先の 2 つの文章に登場した「よく使われる表現」に基づいた、3 問の「英まず CD で英文を聞いて、空欄を埋めてください。その後、再び CD を聞き、選択式問題に答えてください。選択肢は印刷されていませんので、注意深く選択肢を聞き取りましょう。

作問題」から成ります。各 Unit は、「それぞれのテーマと関係したトピックを議論する」という形で終わっています。
この教科書を効果的に使うために、以下のガイドラインに沿って進んでいただくことをお勧めします。

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Useful Expressions

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与えられた語句を正しい順序に並べ替えて、日本語の意味に適する 3 つの英文を完成させる問題です。
3 問の英作問題で使われる下線の語句は、

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Guess the Meaning

vocabulary5との英文から取られた語句です。

For Further Discussion

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6 つの英文について、「太字で示した語句にふさわしい日本語の意味」を下から選んで、記号で答える問題です。これは、後に続く 2 つの英文への理解を助けるための「ウォームアップ問題」です。

小さなグループに分かれて、それぞれの Unit と関わりのあるトピックについて、議論してみましょう。
自分の意見については、理由を述べるようにしてください。

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Jane's (Hiroshi’s) Question

CDreading
英語を勉強するとき、学習したことを復習するのは大切なことです。したがって、既習の Units の内

2 つの英文を読む前に CD を聞いて、Comprehension Check( 内容理解の問題 ) の 3 問の選択式問題にチャレンジしてみましょう。その後で文章を読み、答えを確認してください。

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容の理解を確かめるために、3 つの Review Exercises を用意しています (Unit 1 から Unit 5 までのReview、Unit 6 から Unit 10 までの Review、Unit 11 から Unit 14 までの Review)。

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Why are so many Americans overweight?

Why are so manyAmericansoverweight?

Guess the Meaning

1and filled with frozen foods. There are frozen TV dinners, huge slabs of meat,bottles of cola, and frozen desserts. And most probably it is food for the whole5couple that I stayed with in America waswonderful and I loved them, but they were

1. I was astounded at the large size of the hamburger.

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2. She ate a big slab of steak for dinner.

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3. If we have a heart attack, we must get to a hospital quickly.

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The answer is for Americans to eat

4. Many foreigners feel that gaijin is a loaded term.

_the way Japanese do: eat fresh food, lots of

5. The word long is relative.

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vegetables, and ﬁsh. They will be healthier

6. This food doesn’t taste good to my palate.

_and feel better about themselves also.

b. うんざりする言葉

c. 相対的なd. びっくりした

e. 味覚

f. 心臓麻痺2Q

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having a heart attack when they get older.

CD #00

正しい答えを選びなさい。

reading

Hiroshi は、肥満しているアメリカ人が多いことにびっくりします。買い物の量の多さも日本とは異なるようです。なぜでしょうか ?

both very big, and I worry about themComprehension Check

CD #00Anyone who has traveled to America can’t help but be astounded at the

1. What does Hiroshi suggest?
a. That Americans exercise more.
b. That Americans eat good, healthy food.
c. That Americans go shopping less often.

2. What does an American shopping cart have in it?
a. A small amount of food.

number of overweight people there. It seemed that everyone I met was on a dietb. Fresh food.

or doing some sort of exercise, and yet very few people were getting any thinner.

c. Lots of frozen food.

In Japan, you don’t see many overweight people. And the solution is so simple.
5week. And this same person is probably worried about their weight, and wonders
why they can’t lose weight. The homestay

太字の語句にふさわしい日本語の意味を選び、記号で答えなさい。

1because she wants to be sure the food she buys is fresh.
Now look at the shopping cart the American is pushing. Most likely it is huge,vocabularya. 厚切り3. What is Hiroshi worried about?

Eat good, healthy food and you won’t gain weight. Look at the shopping basket

a. That his host family will have a heart attack.

at the supermarket of a Japanese housewife. It is most likely a small basket,

b. That his host family will get stomach cancer.

filled with fresh vegetables, fish, and so on. And this housewife shops often,c. That he will become overweight during a homestay.

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Face to Face

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Jane’s Answer

A（2）CD を聞いて、正しい答えを選びなさい。

listening

America don’t seem particularly large (2. Why don’t most Americans go shopping every day?

[a / b / c]

3. What don’t Americans like to be called?

[a / b / c]

CD #00Overweight is a very loaded term that is extremely relative. Many people in14)

with a very thin Japanese. In America there are so many large people you can ﬁndclothes to ﬁt you easily anywhere you go, but if you try shopping in Japan you hit
5[a / b / c]

いのは、労働状況や地理的条件と関係がありそうです。Jane の説明に耳を傾けてみましょう。
）の中の語句を聞き取りなさい。

CD #001. Why don’t some Americans worry about being larger than Japanese?

Hiroshi の質問に Jane が答えます。アメリカには、体の大きな人が多くいます。買い物が多（1） CD を聞いて、（4a brick wall. Clothes, chairs, beds, rooms—everything is bigger in America. So,

Useful Expressions

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知っておきたい表現です。日本語の意味に合うように［ ］の中の語句を入れ替え、記号で答えなさい。
1large people ﬁt in.

... can’t help but ...

つい [ どうしても ] 〜してしまう

I couldn’t help but ()()()()().

[ a. her story / b. when / c. told us / d. she / e. laugh ]I congratulate the good Japanese housewife (彼女が自分の話をしたときに、私はつい笑ってしまった。

), but most Americans don’t have the time or the energy to go that often.
Almost everyone works, including both husband and wife, and there are many10

single moms who have to work and be a mother also. Moreover, the nearest store(2) in a shopping center, making it impractical to go tomost likely(おそらく) most likely ()()()().

[ a. have / b. Chinese / c. they’ll / d. tonight / e. food ]a store every day just to buy a few fresh vegetables and a little ﬁsh. We work hard

彼らはおそらく今夜、中華料理を食べるだろう。

and we need high-energy food that we are used to eating and that tastes good toan American palate. And if we15

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don’t have (on the wholeOn the whole, (), we go to一般的に)()()()().

[ a. large / b. restaurants / c. American / d. portions / e. serve ]a fast food restaurant. And if

一般的に、アメリカのレストランでは大盛りだ。

we are large, well, lots of otherpeople are too. I think too that20on the whole, most Americans5

are pretty healthy.
Finally, please don’t call

For Further Discussion

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肥満になると、病気を併発することがあります。肥満と病気の関係について、discussion をしてみま

us overweight. Call us full-しょう。

ﬁgured or king-sized.
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Review ofUnits 1 through 5

2. _kilograms. That is, you’ll be very surprised.
3. _1

Guess the Meaning

You will be this way when you see a ten-year-old child who weighs 200except before exams. That is, they were under very little pressure.

1 × 10 = 10

太字の語句にふさわしい英語の説明を選び、記号で答えなさい。

Jane said that Japanese college students were under this much pressure

4. _Jane said that Japanese shoppers have one with brand-named goods.

1. In Japan, businesses like to foster team spirit.

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That is, she felt that they think about brand names too much when

2. There are huge slabs of meat, bottles of soda, and frozen desserts.

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choosing the things they buy.

3. I happened to walk by a Hermes shop.

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4. I wondered why Japanese travel together in groups.

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5. I was at a loss as to what to do.

_or things. That is, we use this word when there are so many that we can't

6. The “ladies ﬁrst” mentality is dying out in the States.

_count them.

7. We must study like crazy during high school.

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8. The subway was packed with tired high school students.

_a. astoundedb. countlessc. have it both ways

9. I think that on the whole, Americans are pretty healthy.

_d. in a blink of an eyee. minimalf. obsession

10. I think you get the picture.

_5. _3We use this adjective when we talk about a very large number of people

Summarization

3 × 5 = 15

a. did by chanceb. generally

c. didn’t know at alld. a large amount of moneye. encourage

f. very hardg. very surprisedh. way of thinking

i. tried to imagine the reason

j. understand the situation

explains that they can r _ _ _ x since they always have someone around to h _ _ _k. very crowded

l. piecesthem if they have trouble.

1~5 は、それぞれの Unit の内容の要約です。空欄を埋めて、文章を完成させなさい。

1. Jane notices that Japanese like to do things t _ _ _ _ _ _ r in large groups. Hiroshi

2. Jane has found that the life of a Japanese high school student is very hard, but that

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Guess the Word

2 × 5 = 10

英語の説明に当てはまる語句を選び、記号で答えなさい。

1. _of a college student is much l _ _ _ stressful. Hiroshi explains that one must get intoand graduate from a good college to have s _ _ _ _ _ s in the future. He adds thatyoung people want to have many good e _ _ _ r _ _ _ c _ _ during their college days.

S o m e American women want to do this. That is, they like to enjoy theadvantages of “ladies ﬁrst” and also be treated as equals. In other words,
they want to have two things that are impossible to have at the same time.

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3. When Hiroshi was in America, he noticed that Americans men tend to treat women

5. How would Jane feel if she always did things in a large group?

k _ _ _ ly. Jane says that some women don’t l _ _ _ this custom since they want toa. She’d feel safe.

be treated the s _ _ _ way as men.

b. She’d feel relaxed.
c. She’d feel tired.

4. Hiroshi notices that many Americans w _ _ _ _ too much and is worried about theirh _ _ _ _ _. Jane tells Hiroshi that this is natural since things in America are l _ _ _ _5like the people.
5. Jane wonders why Japanese people like to buy goods sold by f _ _ _ _ _ companies
even though they are very e _ _ _ _ _ _ v _. Hiroshi answers by saying that he likes
to buy high-q _ _ _ _ _ _ goods

Composition

日本語に合うように語句を並べ替えて、英文を完成させなさい。
1. 仕事で長い一日を終えた後は、料理をする元気がない。

I don’t() (a. a long day

4Multiple-Choice

1×5=5

2 × 5 = 10) () (b. after) (c. have) at work.
d. to cook

2. 新車が高くついたので、ジョーンズ家の人々は負債を抱えている。

The Joneses are in debt since their new car (1~5 の問いに対して、正しい答えを選びなさい。

(

1. How does Jane feel about Japanese people buying brand-named goods?

e. the energy) ()()()).
a. a legb. costc. an armd. ande. thema. She thinks it saves money.
b. She thinks they can get high-quality goods.
c. She thinks it’s wasteful.

3. ジャックはバーに行き、友だちと酒を飲んでストレスを解消する。

Jack (

2. What did Hiroshi do when a woman didn’t extend her hand?

)(a. and drinking)()()(b. blows) with his friends.

c. by going to a bar

d. steam

e. offa. He smiled and said that he was happy to meet her.
b. He tried to grab her hand and shake it.
c. He didn’t say or do anything.

4. 多くの大学生は、友だちと一緒に過ごして暇な時間をつぶす。

Many college students (3. Why do Americans buy lots of frozen food?

a. hanging

b. spend)()()(c. with)() their friends.

d. their free timee. outa. Because it tastes better.
5. 最初はためらっていたが、頑張って外国で勉強することを決心した。

b. Because they don’t shop often.
c. Because it is cheaper.

I hesitated at ﬁrst but later (4. What is said about colleges in America?

abroad.

a. Students must study hard to graduate.

a. forb. decided)(c. go)()(

d. it

e. to

b. It’s very hard to get into a college in America.
c. Professors give very little homework.

3233)() and study