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全18問のうち、3問を掲載しています。
(1)After running the marathon in the summer heat, the athlete collapsed from ( ). She had pushed her body far beyond its limits and could not even stand.
解説：第2文「限界を超え立てない」から、極度の疲労＝exhaustion。
(2)The teacher had to ( ) the excited children, who were shouting and running around the classroom. She asked them firmly to sit down and be quiet.
解説：「静かに座るよう強く求めた」から、抑える・制止する＝restrain。
(3)Maria is a remarkably ( ) student. She reviews her notes every single evening and never hands in an assignment late.
解説：「毎晩復習し遅れず提出」から、勤勉な＝diligent。
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。
Birth Order and Personality
For more than a century, many people have believed that the order in which children are born shapes their personalities. The idea was made popular in the early twentieth century by the psychologist Alfred Adler, who argued that a child's position in the family created lasting psychological pressures. According to this popular view, firstborn children tend to be responsible and eager to lead, having once enjoyed their parents' undivided attention before younger siblings arrived. Middle children, caught between older and younger brothers and sisters, learn to negotiate and compromise, while the youngest are said to be more relaxed, sociable, and rebellious. The theory has been repeated so often in magazines and popular books that many people now treat it as established fact. It is appealing partly because it seems to match what we notice in our own families, and partly because it offers a simple explanation for ( 19 ). …（続く）
(19)空所（19）に入れるのに最も適切なものを選ぶ問題です。
解説：第1段落。理論が「家族内の違い」を単純に説明する点が魅力、の文脈。why children in one family can be so different。
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 Intelligence of Slime Mold
A slime mold is one of the strangest living things on Earth. Despite its name, it is not really a mold, and it is not a plant or an animal either. A common type, often bright yellow, spends most of its life as a single enormous cell that creeps slowly across the forest floor, feeding on bacteria and rotting leaves. It has no brain and no nervous system of any kind. For this reason, scientists were astonished to discover that a slime mold can solve problems we would normally expect only an animal to manage. …（続く）
No.25What astonished scientists about the slime mold?
解説：第1段落。脳も神経系もないのに問題を解ける点に科学者が驚いた。
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大問4 英文要約（60-70語）
Read the article below and summarize it in English. Write your summary in the space provided on your answer sheet. Aim for a length of around 60–70 words.
大問5 エッセイ（120-150語）
Write an essay on the given TOPIC. Use TWO of the POINTS below to support your answer. Structure: introduction, main body, and conclusion. Suggested length: 120–150 words.
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英検準1級の一次試験（筆記）は、大問1 語句空所補充（18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（60〜70語）、大問5 エッセイ（120〜150語）で構成されます。本模試の第1回は、Birth Order and Personality / The Rise of the Coffee House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。 語彙問題では準1級レベルの語（exhaustion, restrain, diligent 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（60-70語）とエッセイ（120-150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。