第11回 の解答
テーマ:発明の歴史 正解は緑、解説・和訳・スクリプト・模範解答つき
語彙・熟語(大問1形式)
目安 2分30秒空所に入れるのに最も適切なものを1つ選びなさい。
訳:スマートフォンは電話、カメラ、コンピューターを組み合わせた小さな機器だ。
訳:トーマス・エジソンは何千回も失敗したが、最終的には長時間点灯する電球を作ることに成功した。
訳:ライト兄弟は鳥が空を滑るように飛ぶのを見て、飛行機械を作ろうという気持ちをかき立てられた。
訳:印刷機の発明は、本がずっと安くなったことで教育に大きな変化をもたらした。
訳:初期の電気自動車は高価だったが、電気はガソリンより安いので、長い目で見ればお金の節約になると多くの購入者は信じていた。
長文読解(大問3形式)
目安 4分The Story of Instant Noodles
Instant noodles are eaten by billions of people around the world today, but they were invented only about seventy years ago. After World War II, food was scarce in Japan, and a businessman named Momofuku Ando saw long lines of people waiting in the cold to buy a bowl of ramen. He wanted to create a kind of noodle that could be stored for a long time and prepared quickly at home.
Ando worked alone in a small shed behind his house for about a year, trying many different methods. He failed again and again, but he eventually got an idea while watching his wife cook tempura. He realized that frying noodles in hot oil removed the water from them, so they could be kept for months. When hot water was added, the noodles became soft again. In 1958, he started selling the world's first instant noodles, called "Chicken Ramen."
At first, the product was considered expensive, but it soon became extremely popular. In 1971, Ando introduced Cup Noodles after he noticed that people in the United States broke the noodles into cups because they did not have ramen bowls. Today, more than 100 billion servings of instant noodles are eaten each year. They have even been sent into space, and they are often included in emergency supplies after natural disasters.
リスニング(Part2 文章形式)
目安 2分🎙 Many people think that the first bicycles had pedals, but this is not true. In eighteen seventeen, a German man named Karl Drais built a two-wheeled machine made of wood. Riders sat on it and pushed the ground with their feet to move forward. Drais hoped his invention could replace horses, which were expensive to feed at the time. Pedals were added to bicycles several decades later.
スピーキング(面接No.4形式)
35秒Do you think new inventions always make people's lives better?
💡 always を含む質問は No(必ずしもそうではない)と答えやすい。"..., but ..." で良い面と悪い面を対比しましょう。
模範解答
いいえ。発明の中には問題を引き起こすものもあると思います。例えば、スマホはとても便利ですが、多くの人がそれに時間を使いすぎています。その結果、家族と話す時間が減っています。
💡 always を含む質問は No(必ずしもそうではない)と答えやすい。"..., but ..." で良い面と悪い面を対比しましょう。