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全18問のうち、3問を掲載しています。
(1)Even at ninety, my grandmother is full of ( ). She gardens every morning, cooks for the whole family, and still laughs more than anyone I know.
解説:「90歳で庭仕事・料理・よく笑う」から、活力=vitality。
(2)The sheer number of emails waiting for her began to ( ) the new employee. She did not know which one to answer first and felt close to tears.
解説:「どれから返信するか分からず涙ぐむ」から、圧倒する=overwhelm。
(3)The bright red door made the little house very ( ) among its grey neighbours. You could spot it from the far end of the street.
解説:「灰色の家々の中で赤い扉が目立つ」から、目立つ=conspicuous。
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 Mere Exposure Effect
Why do we sometimes come to love a song that we disliked when we first heard it, or feel warmly toward a face simply because we have seen it many times? Psychologists have a name for this curious pattern: the mere exposure effect. The phenomenon was studied in detail in the 1960s by the researcher Robert Zajonc, who noticed that familiarity, rather than any special quality of the object itself, seemed to shape people's preferences. In experiment after experiment, he and others have found that, all else being equal, people tend to prefer things that are familiar to them. The pattern has been demonstrated with photographs of strangers, invented nonsense words, short pieces of music, and even foreign symbols that carry no meaning at all for the person looking at them. Merely being exposed to something over and over, without any reward, argument, or obvious reason to value it, is often enough to ( 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。繰り返し接するだけで、そのものをより好きになる。make us like it more。
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。
Why Deserts Get Cold at Night
When people imagine a desert, they usually picture blazing sunshine and unbearable heat. This picture is true enough during the day, when the surface of a sandy desert can grow hot enough to burn bare skin. What surprises many people, however, is what happens after sunset. As soon as the sun goes down, the temperature can plunge, and in some deserts the night air becomes cold enough to freeze water. A place that was scorching at noon may be bitterly cold only a few hours later. …(続く)
No.25What surprises many people about deserts?
解説:第1段落。昼は灼熱、夜は氷点下という極端さに人は驚く。
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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5回は、The Mere Exposure Effect / The Spice 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。 語彙問題では準1級レベルの語(vitality, overwhelm, conspicuous 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。