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英検1級 そっくり模試 第12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12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)After a decade of petitions, marches, and lawsuits had changed nothing, a deep sense of ( ) settled over the campaigners.

1futility2supplier3brutality4consideration

解説:「あらゆる手段が何も変えられなかった」→努力が無駄だという〈無益、むなしさ〉futility。他の選択肢(supplier/brutality/consideration)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)The foundation was set up to preserve these fragile manuscripts for ( ), so that scholars centuries from now might still consult them.

1bibliography2posterity3intent4gut

解説:「何世紀も先の学者のために」残す→〈後世、子孫〉posterity(for posterity)。他の選択肢(bibliography/intent/gut)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)He took the committee's curt dismissal of his life's work as a deliberate ( ) to his dignity.

1fund-raising2contractor3affront4exile

解説:尊厳を傷つける行為と受け取った→〈侮辱、無礼〉affront。他の選択肢(fund-raising/contractor/exile)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)After weeks of fruitless bargaining the talks had reached a complete ( ), with neither side willing to give an inch.

1immunity2deadlock3corps4axis
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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。

Why the Sky Is Blue

Ask why the sky is blue and most people will hesitate, for the answer is far less obvious than the everyday sight suggests. Sunlight, though it appears white, is in fact a prismatic mixture of every colour of the rainbow. As it streams through the atmosphere, it collides with the countless molecules of gas that make up the air, and these minuscule particles scatter the light in every direction. Crucially, however, they do not scatter all the colours ( 23 ). The shorter, bluer wavelengths are deflected far more strongly than the longer, redder ones, and so it is blue light that ends up flung across the whole dome of the sky. When we look up, we are seeing this scattered blue light arriving from all around us at once. …(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。

1with any real success2anywhere near the ground3for more than an instant4to the same degree

解説:直後で「青い(短い)波長は赤い(長い)波長よりはるかに強く散乱される」と、色によって散乱の強さが違うことが説明される。よって「すべての色を〈同じ程度には〉散乱しない」= to the same degree が論理的に一意。2「うまくは(散乱しない)」・3「地表近くで」・4「一瞬以上は」は、続く波長差の説明とつながらない。

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 Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

During the Second World War, in a rambling Victorian mansion some fifty miles north of London, a few thousand men and women waged a secret campaign whose importance would not be fully acknowledged for another thirty years. Bletchley Park was the home of Britain's codebreakers, and the battle they fought was not against soldiers but against the enemy's encrypted communications—above all, the messages scrambled by a machine known as Enigma. …(続く)

No.29Why did a code that had been broken on one day become worthless the next?

1The codebreakers were required to destroy all their results each night.2The Bombe was able to hold only a single setting at any one time.3Each message was laboriously rewritten by hand every morning.4The German operators reset the machine to new settings every day.

解説:第2段落「毎日ドイツ側のオペレーターが設定を変えたため、月曜に苦労して解いた暗号も火曜には無価値になった」を言い換えた選択肢2が正解。1(成果を毎晩破棄)・4(毎朝手作業で書き直し)は本文に記述がなく、3(Bombeが設定を一つしか保持できない)はBombeの役割(多数の設定を高速に試す)の取り違え。

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 Limits of the Wisdom of Crowds
A large crowd's pooled judgements can supposedly outperform any expert, since averaging many independent guesses, despite their scatter, often lands remarkably near the truth. The mechanism is simple: each judgement blends genuine insight with random error, an…
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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: Developed countries should accept significantly more immigrants
As populations rapidly age and mature economies stagnate, immigration has become one of the most divisive issues of our entire age. Although some fear that newcomers inevitably threaten social cohesion, I firmly agree that developed countries should accept sig…
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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12回は、Why the Sky Is Blue / The Market for Lemons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(futility, posterity, affront 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。