| 問26 |
次の英文を読み、その文意にそって(26) と(27)の( )に入れるのに最も適切なものを
1～4 の中から一つ選びなさい。
Lost for Words
Keiko is 65 years old. She retired from her job a few months ago.
When she was working, she was always very busy.
She had no time for hobbies.
However, she now has plenty of free time.
She enjoys gardening, reading books, and going for walks in the countryside.
She also ( 26 ).
She really enjoys learning a foreign language
and using it to speak with her classmates and her teacher, Mr. Lopez.
One day, Mr. Lopez asked Keiko to talk about her family in class.
There were many things that she wanted to say, but she could not say them.
She was disappointed because she did not know all the words that she needed.
Mr. Lopez tried to ( 27 ).
He said that she is doing really well.
If she keeps studying and practicing hard,
she will soon find it easy to talk about anything. |
答え： ( 26 )
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| 問28 |
次の英文を読み、その文意にそって(28)から(30)の( )に入れるのに最も適切なものを
1～4 の中から一つ選びなさい。
Pest Protection
Insects and other animals often make trouble for farmers.
Such animals are known as pests and can be a big problem.
They eat the fruits and vegetables that should be sold as food.
They also carry diseases to the plants grown on farms.
( 28 ) costs farmers a lot of money.
Many farmers use chemicals to keep pests away.
These chemicals can be bad for the environment, though.
They can kill other creatures.
They can also get into the fruits and vegetables that people eat.
The owners of the Vergenoegd Low wine farm in South Africa use a different
method.
They want to stop pests from eating their grapes.
At the same time, they do not want any chemicals to get in their wine.
Their solution is to ( 29 ) to remove pests.
Every day, a team of over 1,000 ducks is taken to the fields
where the grapes are grown.
The ducks spend all day walking around the plants and eating the pests.
Although ducks have been used to control pests in rice fields in Asia
for hundreds of years,
the use of ducks in other places is much less common.
The ducks used on the Vergenoegd Low wine farm are a special kind.
They have ( 30 ) than other kinds of ducks.
As a result, they cannot fly away.
Using ducks to control pests also has another advantage.
Their waste helps the grape plants to grow. |
答え： ( 28 )
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英語検定 準２級(2021年第3回No.3)