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英検1級 そっくり模試 第4回(一次試験・筆記)

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22語句補充
6長文空所
7長文読解
90-110要約(語)
200-240エッセイ(語)

大問1 短文の語句空所補充(一部)

全22問のうち、3問を掲載しています。

(1)Decades of border disputes had bred such deep mutual ( ) between the two nations that even routine talks now collapsed in mutual recrimination.

1scheme2nationalist3antipathy ✓4cadence

解説:国境紛争が長年育んだ根深い相互の感情で、その後の会談も非難の応酬で決裂→〈反感、嫌悪〉antipathy。他の選択肢(scheme/nationalist/cadence)はいずれも同じ品詞だが、文脈上この空所には当てはまらない。

(2)The announcement of sudden, sweeping layoffs was met with ( ) on the factory floor, where workers had expected nothing of the kind.

1consternation ✓2tank3incentive4complacency

解説:予期せぬ大量解雇に労働者が示した反応→〈狼狽、驚愕〉consternation。他の選択肢(tank/incentive/complacency)はいずれも同じ品詞だが、文脈上この空所には当てはまらない。

(3)To call the document a 'peace treaty' is something of a ( ), since the fighting continued unabated for years after it was signed.

1bout2mortality3x-ray4misnomer ✓

解説:戦闘が続いたのに「平和条約」と呼ぶのは→〈誤称、不適切な名称〉misnomer。他の選択肢(bout/mortality/x-ray)はいずれも同じ品詞だが、文脈上この空所には当てはまらない。

(6)The moment the doors opened, a ( ) of eager shoppers surged into the store, jostling one another for the discounted goods.

1commitment2quirk3throng4exploitation
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大問2 長文の語句空所補充(冒頭)

長文の冒頭部分と設問例を掲載しています。全文と全設問はPDFに収録。

Light in the Deep

Sunlight reaches only the upper layer of the ocean. Below a few hundred metres lies a vast, perpetually dark world that makes up most of the living space on the planet, and the animals that inhabit it have evolved a remarkable response to the absence of light: they manufacture their own. The ability of a living organism to produce light, known as bioluminescence, is ( 23 ) in the deep sea. Far from being a rare curiosity, it is the norm; by some estimates the great majority of creatures drifting or swimming in the open, abyssal depths can generate a glow of their own. …(続く)

(23)空所(23)に入れるのに最も適切なものを選ぶ問題です。

1exceedingly rare2poorly understood3of little practical use4almost universal ✓

解説:空所直後で『珍しい例外どころか、それが常態(the norm)であり、外洋深部の生物の大多数が自ら発光できる』と続く。よって深海で発光能力は〈ほぼ普遍的〉= almost universal。2『極めてまれ』は『far from being a rare curiosity』と真っ向から矛盾、3『よく分かっていない』・4『ほとんど実用性がない』はいずれも後続の説明と噛み合わない。

大問3 長文の内容一致選択(冒頭)

長文の冒頭部分と設問例を掲載しています。全文と設問はPDFに収録。

Bridging the Atlantic

Before the middle of the nineteenth century, a message could travel no faster than the ship or the horse that carried it. News of an event in Europe might take the better part of two weeks to reach North America, by which time it was less news than history. The electric telegraph, which since the 1840s had been spreading its wires across the land, had already collapsed those delays within each continent; but the Atlantic Ocean remained an unbridged gulf, and a dispatch from London to New York still moved at the speed of a sailing vessel. …(続く)

No.29Why did news from Europe reach North America so slowly before the mid-nineteenth century?

1Information could move no faster than the ships and horses that physically carried it. ✓2The land telegraph had not yet been invented anywhere in the world.3European newspapers showed little interest in events overseas.4Governments deliberately held back news for reasons of security.

解説:第1段落『a message could travel no faster than the ship or the horse that carried it』の強い言い換えが3(情報は運ぶ船や馬の速さを超えられなかった)。1は『陸上電信は1840年代から普及していた』と本文に明記されており矛盾(telegraphの語に釣られる誤答)。2・4は本文に記述がなく、もっともらしいだけの未記載型。

ライティング(設題)

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大問4 英文要約(90-110語)

Read the article below and summarize it in your own words as far as possible in English. Summarize it between 90 and 110 words.

TOPIC:The Vanishing of the World's Languages
Of the world's roughly seven thousand languages, nearly half may vanish this century, some already reduced to a few elderly speakers. Languages rarely die through violence; more often they are gradually abandoned, as smaller communities, pressured by a dominan…
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大問5 エッセイ(200-240語)

Write an essay on the given TOPIC. Give THREE reasons to support your answer. Structure: introduction, main body, and conclusion Suggested length: 200-240 words

TOPIC:Agree or disagree: Governments should impose stricter regulations on social media companies
Social media now shapes how billions of people communicate, shop, and form their opinions every day. Although some warn that regulation threatens free expression, I firmly agree that governments should impose stricter regulations on social media companies. Cur…
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この模試について

英検1級の一次試験(筆記)は、大問1 語句空所補充(22問)、大問2 長文空所補充(6問)、大問3 長文読解(7問)、大問4 英文要約(90〜110語)、大問5 エッセイ(200〜240語・理由3つ)で構成されます。本模試の第4回は、Light in the Deep / The Lighthouse Questionなどの題材を扱い、本番と同じ問題数・難易度で作成しています。 語彙問題では1級レベルの語(antipathy, consternation, misnomer など)を中心に出題し、長文読解では言い換えや文脈把握を問います。 ライティングは英文要約(90-110語)とエッセイ(200-240語)で、いずれも模範解答つきです。 全問題・全解説・解答用紙は無料登録後にPDFでダウンロードいただけます。