Science is still divided on the mechanisms behind forest bathing itself. Some lend*credence to the "biophilia" theory, popularized by Edward 0. W ilson in the 1980s, which(6)suggests that humans require interaction with nature because we are part of it ourselves.
Another, called "attention restoration theory," suggests that natural environments likeforests offer people opportunities to recover from the tiring tasks of everyday life. Boththeories might also apply in virtual forests.
-CharlieMetcalfe, "'Forest Bathing'Might Work in Virtual Reality Too: CouldElectronic Forests Elicit the Same Physiological Responses as Real Ones?"MIT Technology Review, June 26, 2023 (adapted)Used with permission of MIT Technology Review, from “Forest bathing” might work in virtual realitytoo, Charlie Metcalfe, June 26, 2023; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
＊（注） acclaimed :賞賛された

cognitive :認知のalleviate :軽減する， 緩和する

elicit :引き出す

physiological :生理的なforestry :林学（森林林業に関する研究を行う学問分野）Prague: プラハ（チェコ共和国の首都）enhance ：機能を高める， 強化する

immersive :没入型の， 臨場感のある

credence: 信頼性， 信憑性

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下線部(1)の forests can be hard to reach の内容の説明として最も適切なものを，次の（イ）～（ホ）の中から 1 つ選んで記号で答えよ。
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森が冷え込んで凍り付くこともある（口）

森の木が石化していることも考えられる（ハ） 森へ行く道に石が敷き詰められていることもある（二）森まで行くのは難しいこともある（ホ）

森にまで届く橋が石で作られることもある-2-The Opposite of Schadenfreude Is Freudenfreude. Hereʼs How toCultivate It. by Juli Fraga © The New York Times Company

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次の文章は． 一つの根系から成る広大なアスペンの森林に関するものである。

空欄(1)~(8)に入る最も適切な語を， 次の（イ）～（二）の中からそれぞれ lつ選んで記号で答えよ。（配点： 16 点）

Friends of Pando, a nonprofit, is in the (1) of creating the largest image everrecorded of a single *aspen clone in *Utah.
All it takes is one gust of wind to wake up Pando. As the sleeping giant stirred to life,I stopped in my tracks, barely a quarter mile into my summer afternoon hike, watching asits *leaf-speckled branches (Up (32) back and forth with each passing breeze.

) a few weeks before my three-mile *jaunt, I had never heard of Pando. It

was the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, and like most people I was going crazy andneeded more ((54) air than what my Salt Lake City neighborhood could provide.

) an internet search for day hikes in southern Utah, I stumbled upon the *quakingaspen (JJopulus tremuloides) located about 40 miles south of Richfield, the nearest town,and about 200 miles from my home.
Known as the''Trembling Giant," Pando is more than just your (6) *arbor.

W idely considered the world's largest tree with one vast root system, the aspen clone isalso one of the largest living (7) on the planet. Spanning roughly 106 acres within

Fishlake National Forest, a sprawling patch of greenery (8) in the High Plateaus ofsouth-central Utah, Pando weighs more than 6,600 tons and contains approximately 47,000genetically identical stems (or branches), experts say.
-Jennifer Nalewicki,"The World's Largest TrP.P. Ts Ready for Its Close-Up,"Smithsonian Magazine, November 16, 2022 (adapted)

The Worldʼs Largest Tree Is Ready for Its Close-Up by Jennifer Nalewicki from SmithsonianMagazine, Nov 16, 2022. Reproduced with permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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問題 II 読解問題基本的な語彙、文法、構文についての知識を用いて、文脈に沿って正確に意味を読み取る力など、英語の総合的な読解力をみる。
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