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次の各組から正しい英文を一つずつ選び、記号で答えなさい。

1 ．ア

Last week I went Sapporo to watch a baseball game.

イI woke up early, so I didnʼt miss the first train.

ウIt was easy of you to solve the math problem.

エThe children was very happy to get a new toy.

2 ．ア

Who pushed the alarm button?

イ

I remember I visit Hawaii three times.

ウ

It rained very hardly, and I couldnʼt go out in the morning.

エ

He is going to talk to a man who standing in the park.

3 ．ア

2

Someone knocked on the door during we were sleeping.

イ

If I were you, I will get angry.

ウ

I have never been abroad in my life.

エ

I asked her where do you live.

次の会話文の空欄

1〜3を補うのに最もふさわしい文を下のア〜コからそれぞれ選び、記号で答えなさい。

1 ．Ａ：There are a lot of people today. Whatʼs going on?
Ｂ：I have no idea.
Ａ：

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2 ．Ａ：Youʼve left most of your supper. Arenʼt you hungry?
Ｂ：

2

Ａ：Do you want some stomach medicine?

3 ．Ａ：Why donʼt we go camping this summer?
Ｂ：Sounds great. I canʼt wait!
Ａ：

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ア

Why are you so hungry?

イ

Because we have no car to go there.

ウWe will be able to swim in the river.

エYes, I had a donut thirty minutes ago.

オ

No, I ate too much fried chicken for lunch.

カThe station is too far to walk to.

キHave you been waiting for me?

クThey had a local festival last week.

ケYou must be very hungry.

コ

I have never seen so many people here before.

次の日本語を英語にしなさい。

1 ．その言葉の意味を私に教えていただけますか？
2 ．私たちは学校で辞書の使い方を学びました。

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次の文章を読み、あとの問いに答えなさい。
（ * のついた語句には本文の最後に注があります。）

How did people tell time before mechanical clocks?

There were a variety of ways tomeasure time.
The ancient Egyptians invented the oldest devices for telling time.

They were called①sundials and they used the sunʼs movement. They were first made around 6,000 years ago inEgypt. The Egyptians put tall stone poles at the entrance of their temples. The poles weresymbols of their god. One day, the Egyptians noticed that the shadow created by a pole waslongest at both sunrise and sunset, but it was shortest at noon. So, they were able to know
when it was morning or afternoon. This was the first type of sundial. Later, they put smallstones on the ground around a pole like a clock we know today. They looked at the poleʼsshadow and could tell the time. The new sundials worked very well, but people could not carry
the heavy poles with them. So, around 3,500 years ago, the Egyptians invented smaller sundials
made of wood. They were light, so people could carry them to their workplaces.
Of course, people could not use sundials after the sunset and on rainy or cloudy days, sothey started making water clocks.

The oldest water clock was found in the *tomb of an

Egyptian king who died about 3,500 years ago. Later *the Greeks began using water clocks totell time. There were two large cups in a water clock; an upper cup and a lower one. The
upper cup had a small hole at the bottom. When they put water into the upper cup, the water
slowly went down into the lower one. ②One of the cups【 markings / water / how / had / fell /show / much / to 】into the cup. People could tell time by looking at the markings.
However, water clocks had some problems. Water went out of the water clockʼs cup whenpeople moved it. Also, the water decreased on hot days, and froze on cold days. It was difficultfor people to know the right time with water clocks.
*hourglasses.

So, they invented sand clocks called

It is said that people used them about 700 years ago.

An hourglass had twoglasses with sand. When it was turned upside down, the sand fell down from the top to thebottom through a hole between the glasses. People could measure time by the movement of thesand. Hourglasses were convenient to carry, and sand did not fall out of the glasses. So, they
were useful especially for sailors on ships. However, they were only good for measuring a shortamount of time. It was difficult to make hourglasses that could measure more than one hour.
Hourglasses are still used today as egg-timers and in board games.
In this way, people tried to develop these clocks over time. Of course all of them had weak
points but they eventually led to a more useful clock, the mechanical clock that we use today.

注）tomb：墓the Greek（s）：ギリシャ人

hourglass（es）：砂時計

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問1

下線部①に関して、本文の内容と一致しないものをア〜エから一つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
アAt first, they were built in front of the temples to tell time.

イThey showed when it was morning or afternoon by the movement of the shadow of apole.

ウSome stones were added on the ground around a pole to tell time by the ancientEgyptians.

エ問2

The ancient Egyptians made them smaller and lighter to carry with them.

下線部②が「カップの一つには、カップの中にどのくらい水が落ちたのかを示すための印があった。
」という意味になるように、【

問3

本文の内容に合うように、（Ａ）と（】内の語を並べ替えなさい。

Ｂ）にそれぞれ最も適切な一語を入れなさい。
All of the three clocks had some bad points. Sundials didnʼt work at（weather.

）or in bad

Water clocks were not always right because the water was difficult tocontrol. Hourglasses couldnʼt measure a（問4ＡＢ）amount of time.

本文の内容と一致するものをア〜キから二つ選び、記号で答えなさい。
ア

The first sundial was invented in Egypt and it was found in an Egyptian kingʼs tomb.

イ

It seems that small sundials and water clocks were used to tell time in Egypt around3,500 years ago.

ウ

Water clocks had two cups for telling time, a larger one and a smaller one.

エ

Water clocks were invented to measure time and are still used in our daily lives forcooking and playing games.

オ

Water clocks were used on ships because they worked very well even under difficult
conditions such as storms.

カ

Both water clocks and hourglasses used something falling through a hole to measure
time.

キ

Hourglasses were not always correct because some sand went out of the glasses
when they were moved.

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