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早慶上智の難単語を「覚えずに解く」裏読みテクニック確認問題集

知らない難語を推測で処理する26問。言い換え・例・対比・因果・パーツから意味を絞る練習。

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Ⅰ 下線部の語の意味に最も近いものを選べ(前後の文脈から推測すること)

  1. 1
    Her writing style is terse—in other words, she never uses ten words when three will do.
  2. 2
    Some animals are nocturnal, such as owls, bats, and raccoons, which sleep during the day and hunt at night.
  3. 3
    Unlike her gregarious sister, who loves big parties, Yuki prefers to spend weekends alone with a book.
  4. 4
    The scandal had a salutary effect on the company: it forced managers to review their safety rules, and accidents fell sharply.
  5. 5
    The politician's mendacious claims were exposed by journalists, and he was forced to resign in disgrace.
  6. 6
    After weeks of heavy rain, the river inundated the town, and thousands of people had to leave their homes.
  7. 7
    Rather than castigating the boy for breaking the window, his teacher calmly asked him what had happened.
  8. 8
    The once-thriving factory town is now moribund: most shops have closed, and young people have moved away.
  9. 9
    He is parsimonious to the point of absurdity—he reuses tea bags three times and refuses to turn on the heater in winter.
  10. 10
    Although the new tax was intended to help the poor, its effects were deleterious: many low-income families ended up paying more.
  11. 11
    Critics praised the novel's trenchant analysis of modern society, saying it exposed problems that others had ignored.
  12. 12
    Most people found the speech soporific; half the audience was asleep within twenty minutes.

Ⅱ 語のパーツ(接頭辞・語根)や文脈から、下線部の意味として最も適切なものを選べ

  1. 13
    The new library was built with money from an anonymous benefactor.
  2. 14
    In the old story, the witch's malediction turned the prince into a frog.
  3. 15
    Our loquacious tour guide talked nonstop for the entire three-hour bus ride.
  4. 16
    The report found that the company was culpable for the oil spill and ordered it to pay for the cleanup.
  5. 17
    When I told my grandfather that I could talk to my phone and it would answer, he looked incredulous.
  6. 18
    Warning: This liquid is highly inflammable. Keep it away from heat and open flames.
  7. 19
    In a film set in the 1800s, a character holding a smartphone would be an obvious anachronism.

Ⅲ 次の英文を読み、設問に答えよ

[1] In the nineteenth century, many doctors saw no need to wash their hands before treating patients. When the Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis suggested that doctors' unwashed hands were spreading a deadly fever among new mothers, his colleagues were recalcitrant(ア): they refused to change their habits, and some even laughed at him. [2] Semmelweis's data, however, were striking. In the ward where doctors washed their hands with a chlorine solution, deaths fell dramatically. Later work by Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister corroborated(イ) his ideas, showing that tiny living organisms could cause infection. [3] Today, Semmelweis is seen as a pioneer, but his story is a reminder that good evidence is not always enough. People may cling to old beliefs, especially when new ideas suggest that they themselves have been at fault. Such resistance is not an anomaly(ウ); it is a common pattern in the history of science.

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[1]19世紀には、多くの医師が、患者を治療する前に手を洗う必要などないと考えていた。ハンガリーの医師イグナーツ・ゼンメルワイスが、医師の洗っていない手が出産したばかりの母親たちの間に致死的な熱病を広めていると指摘したとき、同僚たちは(ア)頑として受け入れなかった。彼らは習慣を変えることを拒み、中には彼を笑う者さえいた。
[2]しかし、ゼンメルワイスのデータは目を見張るものだった。医師が塩素水で手を洗った病棟では、死者が劇的に減ったのである。のちのルイ・パスツールとジョゼフ・リスターの研究は、微小な生物が感染を引き起こしうることを示し、彼の考えを(イ)裏づけた。
[3]今日、ゼンメルワイスは先駆者とみなされているが、彼の物語は、良い証拠があるだけでは必ずしも十分ではないことを思い出させてくれる。人は古い信念にしがみつくことがある。とりわけ、新しい考えが、自分たち自身に落ち度があったことを示唆する場合にはそうだ。そのような抵抗は(ウ)例外的なことではない。科学の歴史においてよく見られるパターンなのである。

  1. 20
    下線部(ア)の意味に最も近いものを選べ。
  2. 21
    下線部(イ)の意味に最も近いものを選べ。
  3. 22
    下線部(ウ)の意味に最も近いものを選べ。
  4. 23
    本文の内容と一致するものを選べ。

Ⅳ 下線部の語の意味を推測して日本語で書き、その根拠を説明せよ

  1. 24
    Many visitors find the city frenetic: people rush everywhere, traffic never stops, and even the music in the shops is loud and fast.
  2. 25
    The critic's review was far from laudatory; she called the film dull and badly acted.
  3. 26
    Long-distance runners often eat copious amounts of pasta the night before a race because they need a lot of energy.
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