令和６年度

山形県立米沢女子短期大学

英語英文学科

Numerous studies have shown that children whose parents read to them at a young age
learn to read more quickly and are more successful in school.

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問題用紙

Spider Robinson, once said that his mother tricked him into learning to read as a child.

【問題】 次の英文を読み、以下の設問に答えなさい。算用数字やアルファベットを

the book down and tell him she had chores to do.

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She would read to him from a fairy tale or a comic book and – just as the suspense peakedat the climax of the story, just as the bad guy was about to defeat the hero – she would put用いる場合には、解答用紙のます目に２文字記入すること。

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One of my favorite writers,

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初If he wanted to know what happened

next, he would have to read it himself.
As the fantasy and science-fiction author George R.R. Martin once wrote, putting the1.
2.

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I read constantly, both for pleasure and at my job editing newspapers.

There is a bookwords in the mouth of one of his characters: “A mind needs a book like a sword needs awhetstone if it is to keep its edge.”
出典Kevin Wood, “Books are knowledge batteries” The Japan Times alpha,May 21, 2021（出題にあたって、一部改変した。
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on my bedside table, another in the living room, several on my desk, even one in my car

注【第一段落】constantly 常に

in case I have to wait at an appointment.

I would probably read in the shower if I could

そなえて

figure out a way to keep the pages dry.

My family will tell you that if our house was onfire and they were fleeing the flames, they would expect to see me in my armchair with abook in front of my face, saying, “Go ahead, I’ll be with you as soon as I finish thischapter.”
It is said that experience is the best teacher, but what is a book if not a record of
someone’s experience?

Books, whether fiction or non-fiction, are batteries of knowledge

that has been collected and stored like energy.
Non-fiction books such as biographies and textbooks provide the reader withinformation gathered from the author’s research and experience.

Like a newspaperarticle, such books give the readers the facts about who, what, where, when and why.
Works of fiction – novels, short stories, even comic books – tell us a story.

The author

creates a world, fills it with characters and shows us how those characters think, what theyfeel, what lies behind the actions they take.

Such stories teach us how to see the world～から逃げるfor pleasure 娯楽のために

figure out~ ～を見つけ出す
flames 炎

in case~ ～の場合にon fire 火事になって

armchair 肘掛け椅子【第二段落】batteries「一群」と「バッテリー」の意味がある
まとめられたhas been collected(has been) stored 蓄えられた【第三段落】biographies 伝記

author 作者【第四段落】works 作品

characters 登場人物

the actions 行動・出来事

point of view 視点【第五段落】numerous 多くの
as a child 子供の時

lies behind~ ～の背景にある

tricked ~ into … ～を言葉巧みに操って…させた

suspense peaked ハラハラする気持ちが最高潮に達した

was about to defeat~ 今 に も ～ に 勝 ち そ う だ っ た
choreswere fleeingput ~ down ～ を 置 く

家事【第六段落】putting the words in the mouth of ~ ～に言わせてthrough another person’s eyes, to have some understanding for other points of view, towhetstone とぎ石

imagine things we have not experienced ourselves.

さ」の意味がある

is to~ ～したいと思う

sword 剣edge「切れ味」と「（言葉の）鋭