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全18問のうち、3問を掲載しています。
(1)The nurse took every ( ) to avoid spreading the infection. She wore gloves and a mask and washed her hands after seeing each patient.
解説：「手袋・マスク・手洗い」感染対策から、予防策＝precaution（take a precaution）。
(2)The small bakery began to ( ) once word spread about its excellent bread. Within a year, it had opened three more shops across the city.
解説：「1年で3店に拡大」から、繁盛する＝prosper。
(3)The fox in the story was extremely ( ). It tricked every other animal in the forest and always managed to get what it wanted.
解説：「他の動物を欺き望みを得る」から、ずる賢い＝cunning。
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。
The Bystander Effect
In 1964, the story of a young woman attacked outside her apartment in a large American city, reportedly while dozens of neighbours heard her cries yet did nothing to help, shocked the public and deeply puzzled psychologists. Newspapers at the time treated the episode as clear proof that modern urban life had made ordinary citizens cold, distant, and indifferent to one another. Why, people repeatedly asked, would so many separate witnesses fail to act at such a critical and obvious moment? Rather than simply concluding that city dwellers were unusually cruel or selfish, a small number of researchers took a more careful and scientific approach and began to look for a hidden psychological cause. They noticed one detail that others had overlooked: the witnesses had not been alone, but each had been merely one member of a larger, watching audience. This single observation led them to suspect that the very presence of a crowd, far from encouraging assistance, might, strangely, ( 19 ). …（続く）
(19)空所（19）に入れるのに最も適切なものを選ぶ問題です。
解説：第1段落。群衆の存在がかえって各人を行動しにくくさせる、が研究者の疑い。make each person less likely to act。
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。
Why the Ocean Is Salty
If you have ever swum in the sea and accidentally swallowed a mouthful of water, you know that the ocean is salty. What is far less obvious is where all that salt comes from. Surprisingly, most of it originates on land. As rain falls and flows over rocks and soil, it slowly dissolves tiny amounts of minerals, including the substances that make up ordinary salt. Rivers then carry these minerals down to the sea. A single river seems to contain very little salt, but over millions of years, countless rivers have delivered an enormous quantity of it to the oceans. …（続く）
No.25Where does most of the ocean's salt come from?
解説：第1段落。塩の大半は陸に由来し、川が鉱物を海へ運ぶ。
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大問4 英文要約（60-70語）
Read the article below and summarize it in English. Write your summary in the space provided on your answer sheet. Aim for a length of around 60–70 words.
大問5 エッセイ（120-150語）
Write an essay on the given TOPIC. Use TWO of the POINTS below to support your answer. Structure: introduction, main body, and conclusion. Suggested length: 120–150 words.
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英検準1級の一次試験（筆記）は、大問1 語句空所補充（18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（60〜70語）、大問5 エッセイ（120〜150語）で構成されます。本模試の第2回は、The Bystander Effect / The Real Story of the Luddites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。 語彙問題では準1級レベルの語（precaution, prosper, cunning 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（60-70語）とエッセイ（120-150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。