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全18問のうち、3問を掲載しています。
(1)The manager valued ( ) above almost everything else. Anyone who arrived even five minutes late for a meeting received a sharp word from her.
解説：「5分の遅刻も叱る」から、時間厳守＝punctuality。
(2)Snow began to ( ) on the roof during the night. By morning it lay so thick that the family could not open the front door.
解説：「一晩で戸が開かぬほど積もる」から、たまる・積もる＝accumulate。
(3)The mountain path was far more ( ) than it looked. Loose stones and sudden drops made every step dangerous for the inexperienced hikers.
解説：「浮き石と急な崖で危険」から、（見かけより）危険な＝treacherous。
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 Dunning-Kruger Effect
It might seem obvious that people who are bad at something would immediately realise it. In reality, psychologists who study human judgement have repeatedly found that the opposite is often true. In a series of well-known experiments carried out in the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger asked volunteers to complete tests of grammar, logic, and humour, and then to estimate how well they had performed compared with others. The results were striking. Those who had scored lowest tended to be among the most confident, cheerfully rating themselves as well above average, while many of the strongest performers were far more modest about their own work. When people know very little about a subject, it seems, they frequently overestimate their own ability, and sometimes they do so wildly. This tendency appears across many different skills, from driving a car to playing chess. This pattern, now widely known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, suggests that the very lack of skill that makes people perform poorly can also ( 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。技能の欠如そのものが、自分の出来の悪さを見えなくしうる。prevent them from seeing how poorly they are doing。
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Why Iron Rusts
Leave an iron nail outside for a few weeks, and it will slowly turn from shiny grey to a rough, reddish-brown. We call this familiar change rust, and it costs the world enormous sums every year as bridges, cars, and machines are slowly eaten away. Rust is not dirt that has settled on the metal from outside; it is the result of a chemical reaction. When iron is exposed to both the oxygen in the air and water, the three combine to form a new substance, and that substance is rust. …（続く）
No.25What is rust?
解説：第1段落。錆は、鉄が酸素と水と反応してできる新しい物質。
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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8回は、The Dunning-Kruger Effect / Tulip Mania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（punctuality, accumulate, treacherous 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。