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全18問のうち、3問を掲載しています。
(1)Countries that lie near the ( ) tend to be hot all year round. With the sun almost directly overhead, they have no cold winter season.
解説：「太陽がほぼ真上・冬がない」から、赤道＝equator。
(2)Before the fences were built, wild horses were free to ( ) across the entire valley. They wandered wherever the best grass could be found.
解説：「柵の前は谷中を自由に歩き回った」から、歩き回る＝roam。
(3)There was a ( ) search for the missing child. Dozens of volunteers ran through the woods, calling her name late into the night.
解説：「夜通し森を走り名を呼ぶ」から、必死の・半狂乱の＝frantic。
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 Framing Effect
Imagine a doctor telling a patient about an operation. In one case, the doctor says that ninety out of a hundred patients survive it; in another, that ten out of a hundred die. The two statements describe exactly the same facts, and a moment's arithmetic confirms that a ninety percent survival rate and a ten percent death rate are one and the same. Yet careful studies of both patients and experienced doctors show that people are far more willing to accept the operation when it is described in terms of survival, and noticeably more reluctant when the identical odds are expressed in terms of death. Researchers have found the very same pattern in a wide variety of settings, from choices about money and health to judgements about food and public policy, which suggests that it is a general feature of the human mind rather than a quirk of one particular situation. This tendency, in which the way a choice is worded changes the decision we make, is known as the framing effect, and it reveals that human beings do not judge information ( 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。人は事実そのものだけに基づいて情報を判断しているわけではない。purely on the basis of the facts themselves。
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 We Yawn
Everyone yawns. Babies yawn before they are even born, and many animals, from dogs to birds, yawn too. Yet despite how common it is, scientists still cannot fully agree on why we do it. For a long time, the popular explanation was that yawning takes in extra oxygen when we are tired or bored and our breathing has slowed. This idea seems reasonable, but when researchers tested it by giving people more or less oxygen to breathe, it made no difference to how often they yawned. The old explanation, it appears, is probably wrong. …（続く）
No.25What does the passage say about the old idea that we yawn to get oxygen?
解説：第1段落。酸素量を変えてもあくびの頻度は変わらず、旧説は誤りらしい。
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（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9回は、The Framing Effect / The Hanseatic League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（equator, roam, frantic 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。