英語検定　準１級(2025年第2回No.4)

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2-4		英語検定(準１級)　筆記	2025年第2回(No.25～No.31) 各１０点 × ７問 ＝ ７０点満点
次の英文を読み、(25)から(27)の各質問に最も適切なものを、1～4 の中から一つ選びなさい。
問25		Question: What does the author of the passage say about US space missions in the 1950s and ’60s? 答え： ( 25) (1) Given the physical demands of space travel, it was understandable that men rather than women were being sent into space. (2) The missions were considered too important to rely on the calculations of human computers. (3) The astronauts at the time felt the media should have given women working on the missions more credit. (4) The missions could only be effectively completed thanks to the precision of the calculations made by human computers.
問26		Question: Which of the following statements would Mar Hicks most likely agree with? 答え： ( 26 ) (1) The view that computation work was for women stemmed partly from a misunderstanding of the nature of the work. (2) Male mathematicians still played a vital role in the interwar period as the women employed sometimes lacked the necessary math skills. (3) Reducing costs by paying low wages to women ultimately had a negative effect on overall data reliability. (4) The two world wars brought about significant societal changes that benefited women much more than men.
問27		Question: The author of the passage points out that after NASA was established, (1) or (2) or (3) or (4) 答え： ( 27 ) (1) the focus of the Cold War began to turn away from conducting space-related missions. (2) it made efforts to address some of the inequities that certain human computers had experienced. (3) female supervisors were awarded additional compensation to make up for their historically low wages. (4) it realized that winning the space race would only be possible if it recruited some of the Soviet Union’s human computers.
次の英文を読み、(28)から(31)の各質問に最も適切なものを、1～4 の中から一つ選びなさい。
問28		Question: What did a group of researchers in the 1970s conclude? 答え： ( 28 ) (1) Most of the reported cases of animals using natural substances for medicinal purposes were false. (2) Most chemical substances produced by plants were harmful to animals even when only consumed in small amounts. (3) Chimpanzees supplemented their diets with leaves when they could not get adequate nutrition from their usual food sources. (4) Chimpanzees deliberately ate the leaves of certain plants when they were suffering from parasitic infections.
問29		Question: What did most scientists believe for many years? 答え： ( 29 ) (1) Animals did not self-medicate because consuming unknown substances went against their natural instincts. (2) The kinds of plants that animals used for medicinal purposes changed from one generation to the next. (3) Animals with low intelligence could not self-medicate because they lacked the ability to learn how to do so. (4) All animals were born with the ability to recognize natural substances that have medicinal properties.
問30		Question: What is one thing the author of the passage says about fruit flies? 答え： ( 30 ) (1) Consuming alcohol is damaging to their health but overall beneficial when they are infected by parasitic wasps. (2) The consumption of food containing alcohol weakens them and makes them more vulnerable to parasitic wasps. (3) They intentionally become infected by parasitic wasps in order to reduce the harmful effects of alcohol. (4) They have developed a strategy to prevent parasitic wasps from being able to lay eggs inside them.
問31		Question: Research has shown that some social insects (1) or (2) or (3) or (4) 答え： ( 31 ) (1) produce a substance that can protect themselves and their colony from bacterial and fungal infections. (2) leave their colony when they are suffering from infectious diseases to prevent the disease from spreading. (3) use natural medication in a way that benefits their whole colony rather than just themselves. (4) have the ability to teach other members of their colony how to deal with bacterial and fungal infections.