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英検1級 そっくり模試 第7回(一次試験・筆記)

本ページでは、英検1級の出題傾向を分析して独自作成したそっくり模試 第7回の問題を一部掲載し、解答・解説の一部もご紹介します。全問題(大問1〜5)と詳しい解説は、無料登録後にPDFでダウンロードいただけます。

22語句補充
6長文空所
7長文読解
90-110要約(語)
200-240エッセイ(語)

大問1 短文の語句空所補充(一部)

全22問のうち、3問を掲載しています。

(1)What had been promoted as the company's flagship product became a costly ( ) that wiped out a year of profits and forced the chief executive to resign.

1lexicon2aggression3debacle4ratio

解説:華々しく売り出した主力製品が1年分の利益を吹き飛ばしCEO辞任を招いた→〈大失敗、総崩れ〉debacle。他の選択肢(lexicon/aggression/ratio)はいずれも同じ品詞だが、文脈上この空所には当てはまらない。

(2)After months of wrangling between the two departments, the ( ) of it all was a compromise that pleased no one.

1upshot2fraud3sobriety4mentor

解説:数か月のもめ事の末に行き着いた最終的な帰結→〈結末、結局のところ〉upshot。他の選択肢(fraud/sobriety/mentor)はいずれも同じ品詞だが、文脈上この空所には当てはまらない。

(3)Setting aside the minor technical objections, the ( ) of her argument was that the policy would harm the very people it claimed to protect.

1detection2crux3commerce4solidarity

解説:些末な技術的反論を脇に置いた上での議論の中心点→〈核心、最重要点〉crux。他の選択肢(detection/commerce/solidarity)はいずれも同じ品詞だが、文脈上この空所には当てはまらない。

(6)A central ( ) of the school's philosophy is that children learn best when they are allowed to direct their own play.

1destruction2tenet3dominance4tantrum
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大問2 長文の語句空所補充(冒頭)

長文の冒頭部分と設問例を掲載しています。全文と全設問はPDFに収録。

The Library That Held the World

In the third century before our era, the rulers of Egypt set out to gather, under a single roof, a copy of every book then in existence. The great Library they founded at Alexandria was not merely a storehouse of scrolls but the first serious attempt to assemble the whole of human knowledge in one place. Ships docking at the teeming harbour were searched, and any manuscripts found aboard were taken away, copied by the Library's scribes, and, so the story goes, returned to their owners as copies, while the originals were quietly kept. ( 23 ) such aggressive methods, the collection swelled until it held, by some ancient estimates, a prodigious half a million scrolls. …(続く)

(23)空所(23)に入れるのに最も適切なものを選ぶ問題です。

1In spite of2By means of3Far from using4With no recourse to

解説:空所の後で「蔵書は50万巻に膨れ上がった」と結果が続き、直前は写本を没収・複写するという手口の説明。手口が増加を生んだ因果なので〈そうした手口によって〉By means of。2「~にもかかわらず」・3「~を用いることなく」・4「~に頼らずに」はいずれも手口と増加の因果を断ち切り、文意に反する。

大問3 長文の内容一致選択(冒頭)

長文の冒頭部分と設問例を掲載しています。全文と設問はPDFに収録。

The Brainless Problem-Solver

Among the strangest of nature's problem-solvers is a unicellular organism that has neither a brain nor a single nerve cell to its name. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum spends much of its life as a gelatinous yellow mass, no more than a smear on a damp log, feeding on the bacteria and decaying detritus of the forest floor. For all its apparent simplicity, it has become, over the past two decades, an unlikely celebrity in laboratories around the world, for it turns out to be capable of feats that seem to border on sentience. …(続く)

No.29What did the slime mould do when it was placed in the maze?

1It filled the entire maze evenly and never settled on any particular route.2It required a signal from a central control point before it could find the exit.3It found the food only after the longer corridors had been blocked off by the researchers.4It retreated from the blind alleys and the longer routes and ended up stretched along the shortest path to the food.

解説:第2段落『行き止まりや遠回りの経路から次第に退き、2点間の最短経路に沿って体を集中させた』を強くパラフレーズ(dead ends→blind alleys、shortest path→shortest path to the food)。選択肢1が一致。2は『最短経路に集約した』と矛盾、3は『いかなる中枢制御もなく』に正反対、4は『研究者が通路を塞いだ』という未記載の事実を加えた釣り。

ライティング(設題)

設題と語数を掲載しています。模範解答と解説はPDFに収録。

大問4 英文要約(90-110語)

Read the article below and summarize it in your own words as far as possible in English. Summarize it between 90 and 110 words.

TOPIC:The True Price of Cheap Clothes
Whereas clothes were once costly and durable, fast-fashion retailers now produce cheap, constantly changing styles that shoppers buy in excess and quickly discard. The appeal is obvious: consumers fill their wardrobes and keep pace with every passing trend, wh…
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大問5 エッセイ(200-240語)

Write an essay on the given TOPIC. Give THREE reasons to support your answer. Structure: introduction, main body, and conclusion Suggested length: 200-240 words

TOPIC:Agree or disagree: A university education should be provided free of charge to all students
The soaring cost of higher education now shuts many talented young people out of university. Although critics complain that free tuition burdens taxpayers, I firmly agree that a university education should be provided free of charge to all students. Equal oppo…
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この模試について

英検1級の一次試験(筆記)は、大問1 語句空所補充(22問)、大問2 長文空所補充(6問)、大問3 長文読解(7問)、大問4 英文要約(90〜110語)、大問5 エッセイ(200〜240語・理由3つ)で構成されます。本模試の第7回は、The Library That Held the World / The Logic of Tradeなどの題材を扱い、本番と同じ問題数・難易度で作成しています。 語彙問題では1級レベルの語(debacle, upshot, crux など)を中心に出題し、長文読解では言い換えや文脈把握を問います。 ライティングは英文要約(90-110語)とエッセイ(200-240語)で、いずれも模範解答つきです。 全問題・全解説・解答用紙は無料登録後にPDFでダウンロードいただけます。