（11月18日実施）英語分野問題

2015年度推薦入学選考（11月18日実施）
英語分野問題
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Ⅰ 次の文を読んで、あとの問いに答えなさい。（ ••• のついた語句は文末に注があります。）
Lately I’ve been wondering, are we supposed to love our jobs? Now and then you
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meet someone who says it unconditionally: “I love my job!” But it doesn’t happen very often . •••••••
In fact, I would say that over half the people I know wish they had a different job or are
actively job hunting . Will they find greener pastures?
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Considering the poor state of the economy, it’s surprising that so many people dislike
their jobs . When you’re unemployed, almost any job looks good . Just the other day, I heard
someone on the radio say, “I’ll take any job!” Like all the other laid-off and unemployed folks,
this person just wanted to
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. I still remember how I felt the day I got hired full time
after working part-time jobs for two years . All my problems are solved, I thought! There’s
a huge feeling of relief and gratitude when you realize how lucky you are to have work in a
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troubled economy . But that phase is like a honeymoon . As you get to know the job better,
you see its flaws more clearly, and every job, like every person, surely has its flaws . Then
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you have to decide whether to stick with it or look for something better .
I recently served on a hiring committee and was surprised to see how often people
move from job to job . Two years at one job was very
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and many people had a long
series of two-year jobs . In the US, that’s how people tend to move up into higher positions . In fact, some people say staying in the job for five years is too long because it looks like you
don’t have enough ambition and initiative .
When I worked in Japan, I noticed a big
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between my Japanese and Western
colleagues . Very few Japanese left, but the majority of Westerners did . Sometimes they left
to take better jobs, but sometimes they just wanted a change or less stress in their lives . I
think some of my Japanese colleagues envied the way we just up and left, but I always
admired their ability to stick with the job and endure . Of course some of the moving around
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had to do with expats going back home, but now that I’m in the US workforce, I can see that
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changing jobs is the norm here .
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With so much job-hopping, some managers try hard to keep employees happy so they’ll
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stick around . One way my company does that is with “bravos .” A bravo is an email sent by
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one employee to another to say, “Nice work!” All the bravos are published in a monthly
newsletter, and once a year we have a party honoring everyone who gave and received one . ⑷
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A bravo can be for something big or small . Here’s a funny example: We recently moved a
huge number of books to a different location . I had to dust a lot of shelves and had mildly
complained to my boss about the strong cleaning product giving me a headache . The next
week I got a bravo from her saying, “Thanks so much for helping us clean those shelves .” I
laughed and felt
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about my job!
（Adapted from Business, American Style）
注　unconditionally：無条件に
flaws：欠点
expats：海外駐在員
norm：普通のこと
job-hopping：転々と職を変えること
stick around：その場にとどまる
問１空欄
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〜
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に入れるのに最も適当なものを、それぞれの中から１つずつ選
び、番号をマークしなさい。
Ａ．① employ
Ｂ．① common
Ｃ．① connection
Ｄ．① better
② play
② exceptional
② difference
② cruel
③ rest
③ odd
③ quarrel
③ disappointed
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④ work
④ strange
④ race
④ terrible
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ウ
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問２線 ⑴ 〜 ⑷ の意味に最も近いものを、それぞれの中から１つずつ選び、番号を
マークしなさい。
⑴　① always
⑵　① ease
⑶　① abandon
⑷　① electing
② generally
② fear
② dismiss
② greeting
③ sometimes
③ guilt
③ remove
③ praising
④ usually
④ loyalty
④ bear
④ surprising
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キ
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問３線 ⒜ の意味として最も適当なものを、次の中から１つ選び、番号をマークしな
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さい。
①　a better or more promising job
②　a more beautiful or famous scene
③　a more eco-friendly situation
④　a nicer or friendlier person
問４次の文を読んで、本文の内容と合っているものには ① を、合っていないものには ② を
マークしなさい。
⑴　The author thinks that more than half of the people she knows like their jobs very
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much .
⑵　When the author got hired as a full-time worker after working part-time jobs for two
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years, she was happy . ⑶　The better you get to know a job, the more clearly you see its merits, which is similar
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to the case with a honeymoon .
⑷　If you stay in the same job for five years in the US, it seems that you do not have
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enough desire to be successful .
⑸　The author got a bravo after a huge number of books were moved to a different place
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and she had to dust a lot of shelves .
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Ⅱ 次の各文の（　）の中に入れるのに最も適当なものを、それぞれの中から１つずつ選び、
番号をマークしなさい。
問１ I can always recognize him from far away by the（　）he walks .
① example
② link
③ tradition
④ way
問２ The（　）of the heart is to pump blood around the body .
① function
② occasion
③ resource
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④ union
問３ They were wondering where to hold the party, and I（　）the Italian restaurant
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near the station .
① identified
② judged
③ suggested
④ waved
問４ The scientist’s explanation was（　）the point . It helped us understand the
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difficult concept .
① for
② in
③ to
④ with
問５ Bill（　）a seat on the evening flight to Los Angeles .
① booked
② enforced
③ preceded
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④ vowed
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Ⅲ 次の日本文と英文を対照させつつ、あとの問いに答えなさい。
お茶は東南アジアの温・熱帯地方が原産。日本語の cha は英語やフランス語の tea，thé など
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と同じ語源を持っています。イギリス人が紅茶を生活の一部としているのと同様、日本でもお
茶は生活に欠かすことができません。午後 3 時は「おやつ」の時間といって、お菓子とお茶を
いただくのが昔からの日本人の習慣です。しかし一方では、そのような茶の日常性とはまった
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く異なり、禅の精神を取り入れることによって精神を修養するという茶道が安土桃山時代
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（1573 〜 1603）に成立し、現在も盛んに行われています。仏教の僧がもともと日本茶を薬用に
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用いていたように、ビタミンを多く含むのがわかっていて、健康にも大変よいとされています。
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Cha（or ocha）was originally produced in the temperate and（　）regions of
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Southeast Asia . The Japanese word cha has the same derivation as, for example, the English
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word “tea” and the French word “thé .” In the same way as the British people make black
tea a part of their daily lives, in Japan too cha is indispensable to people’s lives . A long⒝
standing Japanese（　）is to have “refreshment time” at three in the afternoon to
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partake of sweets and cha . Meanwhile, however, the tea ceremony, for which the tea is
quite different from the cha used daily and which improves one’s character by（　）in
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the spirit of Zen, was developed in the Azuchi-Momoyama Period（1573 - 1603）and i s widely
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（　）still today . （　Ａ　）Buddhist priests originally used Japanese cha（　Ｂ　）
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medicinal purposes, it is known to（　）a lot of vitamins and is considered to be very
good for the health .
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（Adapted from『日本文化を英語で紹介する事典』）
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問１線 ⑴ 〜 ⑸ の英訳を完成させるため、空欄に入れるのに最も適当なものを、そ
れぞれの中から１つずつ選び、番号をマークしなさい。
⑴　① calm
⑵　① basis
⑶　① giving
⑷　① adapted
⑸　① consist
② gentle
② custom
② making
② displayed
② include
③ smooth
③ duty
③ knowing
③ practiced
③ mix
④ tropical
④ form
④ taking
④ served
④ relate
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ニ
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問２英文中の線 ⒜ とほぼ同じ内容を表すように書き換えた場合、（　）の中に
入れるのに最も適当なものを、下の選択肢の中から１つ選び、番号をマークしなさい。
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The Japanese word cha has the same（　）as some words, such as “tea” in
English and “thé” in French .
①　flavor
②　material
③　origin
④　taste
問３英文中の線 ⒝ とほぼ同じ内容として最も適当なものを、次の中から１つ選び、
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番号をマークしなさい。
①　active
②　essential
③　faithful
④　organic　問４日本文中の線 ⒞ の内容を表す英文にするために、英文中の（Ａ）と（Ｂ）に入
れるのに最も適当な組み合わせを、次の中から１つ選び、番号をマークしなさい。
①　（Ａ）As for
②　（Ａ）Due to
③　（Ａ）In case
④　（Ａ）Just as
（Ｂ）on
（Ｂ）for
（Ｂ）on
（Ｂ）for
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