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全18問のうち、3問を掲載しています。
(1)The young doctor threw herself into her work with great ( ). She arrived early, stayed late, and treated every patient as if their case were the most important in the world.
解説：「早く来て遅くまで残り全患者に全力」から、熱意＝zeal。
(2)It took several hours for the frozen meat to ( ) on the kitchen counter. Only then was it soft enough to cut and cook.
解説：「凍った肉が数時間で柔らかく」から、解凍される・溶ける＝thaw。
(3)The new teacher was so ( ) that the children liked her at once. She smiled easily, spoke gently, and always seemed pleased to see them.
解説：「微笑み優しく話し好かれる」から、愛想のよい＝amiable。
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 Foot in the Door
If you want someone to agree to a large request, research in social psychology suggests a surprisingly clever first step: begin by asking them for something small. This principle has been demonstrated many times, but the classic illustration comes from a famous experiment carried out in California during the 1960s. Homeowners were approached and asked whether they would allow a large, ugly road-safety sign reading 'Drive Carefully' to be installed in their front gardens. The request was deliberately unattractive, and, quite understandably, almost everyone flatly refused. A second group of residents, however, was treated differently. These people were first asked to do something tiny and harmless, namely to display a small sign about safe driving in a front window, and nearly all of them happily agreed. When these very same residents were approached again a couple of weeks later and asked about the large, unsightly garden sign, a surprising number of them said yes. Simply agreeing to the small, easy request had somehow made them far more willing to ( 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。小さな依頼に応じたことで、後のより大きな依頼にも応じやすくなった。agree to the much bigger request later。
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 Moon Has Phases
The Moon seems to change its shape from night to night. Sometimes it is a thin curved sliver, sometimes a bright full circle, and sometimes it vanishes from the sky altogether. These changing shapes are called the phases of the Moon, and although they have puzzled people for thousands of years, the explanation is beautifully simple. The first thing to understand is that the Moon makes no light of its own. Like a mirror, it merely reflects the light of the Sun, and at any moment the Sun lights up exactly one half of the Moon, while the other half lies in darkness. …（続く）
No.25Where does the light of the Moon come from?
解説：第1段落。月は自ら光らず、鏡のように太陽の光を反射する。
設題と語数を掲載しています。模範解答と解説はPDFに収録。
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11回は、The Foot in the Door / The Silk Road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（zeal, thaw, amiable 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。