状況 1     （質問1）

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Ann and Tomas are at a coffee shop. They’re talking when Yoshi comes in.

1. ______は初めて会います。

状況 2     （質問2）

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Rick and Sharon are at a restaurant.

2. Sharon ______.

状況 3     （質問3）

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Sven calls Marcos’s home. Marcos’s roommate answers the telephone.

3. Marcos ______.

状況 4 (質問 4 および 5)

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

記者が今日の天気予報を伝えています。

4. It’s hot and dry in ______.

5. In Miami, it will be ______.

状況 5     (質問6と7)

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Dom calls Phil about playing golf.

6. Phil can’t play golf tomorrow afternoon because he ______.

7. 彼らは______に行くつもりです。

状況6    (質問8と9)

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Sherry and Jill are both going on summer vacations with their families. They are talking about their plans.

8. Jill and her family usually ______.

9. Sherry wishes she had time to ______.

状況 7     （質問10、11、12）

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Melanie is talking to George about her laptop computer.

10. Melanie is angry because ______.

11. Carol ______.

12. George doesn’t usually lend things because ______.

状況8     （質問13、14、15、16）

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Henry and Gloria are talking about their trips abroad.

13. Henry went to Mexico ______.

14. Henry says he “would have liked to have seen Brazil“. He means that he ______.

15. Gloria went to Poland because ______.

16. Dottie ______.

状況 7     (質問17、18、19、20)

質問を読んでください。次に、音声録音を再生して質問に答えます。

Barbara and Eddie are talking about their new jobs.

17. Before Eddie began his job at Delaney’s, he had already ______.

18. At Delaney’s, Eddie works ______.

19. Barbara always wanted to ______.

20. Barbara ______.

セクション 2 (読書)

テストのこのセクションでは、いくつかの短い文章を読み、それに関する質問に答えます。文を完成させるのに最も適した単語を選択してください。各項目について、解答用紙に解答を記入してください。 このセクションを完了するには 15 分かかります。

パッセージ 1     （質問21）

What are you doing this weekend?
MARA: Sunday is the day when I usually have lunch with my friends downtown. But this week there’s a concert on Saturday, so I’ll see my friends then. Sunday I’m staying home.

21. This Saturday Mara’s going to ______.

パッセージ 2 (質問 22)

What do you do?

EILEEN SWEET: I’m a hostess at a big restaurant. I greet people at the door and take them to their tables. Day after day, I always do the same thing. Someday I hope to have a more interesting job, but it’s OK for now.

22. Eileen thinks that her job is ______.

通路 3 (質問 23)

A vacation postcard

Dear Millie,

You wouldn’t believe Costa Rica! It’s really peaceful. Judy and I have been staying in a tent at a campground on the beach. We’re studying a little Spanish with a cute guy who teaches English in school here, but I think he’s learning more English than we are Spanish. Judy brought her guitar, so we enjoy singing around the campfire at night.
Love,
Sheila

23. Sheila and Judy are ______.

パッセージ 4     （質問24、25）

Concentration, a special talent

People who have the capacity for intense concentration have a great advantage. Such people have the ability to ignore stimuli (sights, sounds, or anything that can distract a person) and are more likely to stay with the task at hand and to solve it. This ability can make all the difference between winning and losing in certain situations – for example, for the championship runner competing for a gold medal at the Olympics.

24. In this reading, concentration refers to a person’s ability to ______.

25. Athletes who can concentrate are more likely to ______.

通路 5 (質問 26 および 27)

The Scot and the tea kettle

According to one story, a Scottish boy watched the steam lift the top off his mother’s tea kettle and realized the power of steam to make machines work. That boy, James Watt, would then go on to invent the modern steam engine in 1769. Actually, the history of steam technology records the successful work of several scientists and engineers before Watt. For example, in 1698, Thomas Savery had introduced a simple steam pump to remove water from mines, and 14 years later Thomas Newcomen invented a better pump. But these pumps weren’t efficient because they used so much fuel. In 1769, the Scottish boy, James Watt, figured out a way to save three-quarters of the fuel. To honor him, his last name became the name of a unit of energy.

26. The example of the boiling tea kettle shows that steam is ______.

27. Early steam pumps weren’t efficient because they ______.

通路6     （質問28、29、30、31）

Wide open spaces

Visitors to the United States, especially those from Japan or the smaller countries of Europe, are likely to comment on the size and scale of everything. Although the downtown sections of some of the older cities such as Boston and Philadelphia may look similar to their own larger cities, other aspects are likely to appear “out of scale.” For example, the average American farm is huge in comparison with the typical family farm of Europe and Asia. Across the Great Plains, farmers use great machines to plant and harvest enormous quantities of wheat. Such farms offer a dramatic contrast to the tiny farms of Europe or Asia, where intense human labor is more important. The main cities of the United States are connected by a vast system of highways and superhighways moving endless streams of cars and trucks, while on the edge of the cities, suburban developments and shopping centers with huge parking lots stretch for mile after mile. It’s as if Americans made everything larger, just to use up the available space.

28. To visitors, everything in the United States seems ______.

29. To Japanese and European visitors, the downtown sections of Boston and Philadelphia seem ______.

30. The typical American farm ______.

31. The article implies that people in the United States are influenced by ______.

パッセージ 7     （質問32、33、34、35）

Staying in touch “Small”

People don’t need to be in close physical contact to feel “connected” emotionally. Over the years, various means of communication have been used to enable human beings to keep in contact with one another. Letters, telegrams, and telephones have allowed individuals located in different places to share news and to interact with family, friends, and business relationships.

In today’s world, with more and more people on the move, long-distance communication has become even more important. At the same time, changes in technology, particularly the introduction of computers and the increasing use of email, have made it easier than ever to stay in contact. There are two main reasons why email has become so widespread: time and money. Although mail service and telephones can be found almost everywhere, a letter can take a long time to arrive and phone calls are often quite expensive.

Email seems to be replacing other forms of communication for many purposes. As the use of computers has spread, many people use email rather than regular mail to send personal messages. Because it has become so easy to send pictures and information via the Internet, it has also become commonplace to use email in business. Email has even given rise to different types of communication. For example, a “chat room,” is where groups of people who do not know each other personally can talk about topics of mutual interest. While some people are enthusiastic about communication in the modern age, others regret the growing depersonalization brought on by the use of email. Communication has become so easy and yet so removed from the normal process of face-to-face interaction that researchers have concluded that a whole new culture of communication may be forming.

32. The main idea of the article is that ______.

33. Modern communications enable people to ______.

34. In comparison with a telephone call, email is ______.

35. ______ is a type of communication made possible by email.

パッセージ8     （質問36、37、38、39、40）

Biofeedback

When biofeedback was first developed a number of years ago, it caused a lot of excitement. People hoped that biofeedback could be used to cure all kinds of physical and mental problems.

Biofeedback is the name for a medical technique that helps people treat certain problems by becoming more aware of their own bodies. In biofeedback, instruments that measure bodily functions such as muscle tension, temperature, and blood flow are attached to the body. The instruments produce signals – for example, a series of sounds (beeps) or a flashing light – that the person can hear or see. The patient then uses the information to help gain control over the function. The most widely used biofeedback instrument is the electromyograph, or EMG. The EMG is used to measure muscle tension. It is made up of several electrodes, which are placed on the skin near a particular area, depending on the symptom. For example, for headaches, a symptom often caused by excessive tension in the neck muscles, the electrodes are placed on the forehead or near the back of the neck. When the tension is present, the EMG produces a signal and the patient is taught to respond by relaxing the appropriate muscles. In many cases, the relaxation of these muscles causes the headache to go away.

While biofeedback has not turned out to be a cure-all, it has been used successfully to treat a limited number of problems – especially those caused by chronic tension.

36. At first, people were very ______ biofeedback.

37. Biofeedback instruments ______.

38. Blood flow is an example of a ______.

39. The EMG ______.

40. According to the article, biofeedback ______.

セクション 3 (言語の使用)

このセクションでは、英語の使用に関する質問に答えます。文を完成させるのに最も適した単語を選択してください。各項目ごとに、 いずれかのオプションを選択します。 このセクションを完了するには 15 分かかります。

41. “Are the bags ready?”
“Yes, ______.”

42. I live _____ 4040 Oak Avenue.

43. “I like to cook.”

“______ do I.”

44. David enjoys ______ sports on TV.

45. ______ everyone I know plays a musical instrument.

46. Yesterday’s game caused a lot of _____.

47. We hope ______ you again soon.

48. This apartment is ______ one we’ve seen all week.

49. Tom’s never bought a new car, ______ he?

50. The package still hasn’t arrived. I wish I ______ it earlier.

51. Can you tell me where ______?

52. My suitcase would have been much lighter if I ______ all my books.

53. I met Carl many years ago. ______ him for a long time.

54. This book is interesting. It’s really worth ______.

55. If fewer people drove cars to work, ______ less pollution.

56. Would you mind ______ down the radio?

57. Are you interested ______ shopping with me?

58. The washing machine needs ______.

59. By this time tomorrow ______ in Montreal.

60. You look tired. You must ______ hard today.

61. I am used ______ the bus to work.

62. The tie ______ costs only $10.

63. ______ Sara, I like walking.

64. Before ______ dinner, I usually send a few emails.

65. I’m learning Japanese ______ go to university in Japan.

66. For me, algebra is ______ difficult than chemistry.

67. I would rather ______ on weekends.

68. Sara feels tired. She shouldn’t ______ so much.

69. John’s manager demanded that he ______ the report by 5 o'clock today.

70. The more teenagers read, ______ they become.