━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆◆ ２００３年・公立高校入試・英語長文 ◆◆ 中３用 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 第１６回 和歌山県の長文 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【目次】 １．今日の単語 ２．今日の先読み ３．今日の本文 ４．塾長のコメント ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ あけましておめでとうございます。１０日以上メルマガの配信をしてい ませんでしたが、ちゃんと勉強していましたよね。１０日間の実力の蓄 積をもって、今回からまた英文を読んでください。 ＜お詫び＞先日、配信履歴を見ていたら、第４回と第７回が全く同じも のを配信していたようです。気付きませんでした。申し訳ありません。 おわびに今回の和歌山県の英文の後に私の書いた英文をちょっとだけ載 せておきます。（余計なお世話？） ━ ＜ １．今日の単語 ＞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ found find（見つける）の過去形、過去分詞形 major league メジャーリーグ realize 実現する give up 〜をあきらめる arm 腕 disappointed がっかりして encourage 励ます believe in 〜を信じる try out for 〜の入団テストを受ける do his [their] best 全力を尽くす won win （勝つ）の過去形 yourselves [ourselves] あなた達自身、私たち自身 minor league マイナーリーグ（メジャーリーグの下に属するリーグ） ━＜ ２．今日の先読み ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 上の単語群を参考にして１５〜２０秒で先読みをしてください。 （塾長の先読みは省略します。） ━＜ ３．今日の本文 ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 次の文はある生徒のスピーチの原稿です。 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Last July, I was looking for a book to read during summer vacation. In the school library I found a wonderful book . It was a story about a baseball player. His name was Jim. Now I'll tell you about the story. When Jim was a boy, he was the best baseball player in his city. His dream was to become a major league player. He tried hard to realize his dream. But he had to give up his dream because he had a problem with his arm when he was 25. After that, he had to work hard in many cities for his family. When he was 33, he found work at a high school. He began to teach baseball to the students there. They were not good baseball players. He taught how to play baseball better to them. They practiced hard every day. But they couldn't win any games. They were very disappointed. He wanted to encourage them. So he said to them, "I know you practice hard. But you need one more thing. You need a dream. If you have a big dream, you will try harder. Believe in yourselves. You can do it!" Then one of the students said, "I know you wanted to become a major league player. Why don't you try it?" Another student said, "If we win the next game, you should try out for a major league team." Jim was very happy to hear that, because they knew his dream and tried to encourage him. Three months later, there was a big game in the city. The students did their best for their teacher. At last they won the game! Jim was very surprised and happy. He said to the students, "It's my turn. I have learned I can do anything." A few months, later, he tried out for a major league team. This time he did his best for his students. He had no problem with his arm. He could play baseball really well. After he was in minor league teams for only three months, at last he could join the major leagues! Now, everyone. When Jim became 37, he had a problem with his arm again. He couldn't stay in the major leagues. Do you think he was sad? No. He was happy because he realized his dream. Why could he realize it? This story taught me two important things to realize our dreams. We must believe in ourselves, and around us we need people who encourage us. Let's go for our dreams together! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 問題 Answer in English. (1) What was Jim's dream when he was a boy? (2) How old was Jim when he left the major leagues? 並べ替え問題（お話の順番に並べ替えなさい） A. The students encouraged Jim, and he tried to become a major league player again. B. Jim had to leave the major leagues because he had a problem with his arm, but he was happy. C. Jim began to work at a high school and told the students to have a dream. D. Jim had to give up his dream because he had a problem with his arm, so he began to work hard for his family. ━＜ ４．塾長のコメント ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 非常に面白いお話でしたね。ちょっと歳を喰ってしまった私なんかにと って、勇気を与えてくれるお話でした。夢を持って努力すれば、何でも 出来るということですよね。 ただ、私ぐらいの歳になると、努力だけではどうにもならないこともあ る、という気もしてきます。たとえば一流のスポーツ選手として名前が 知られるようになるには、努力の他に「素質」と「運」も大きく影響す るんじゃないでしょうかね。「素質」を持った人がその素質を生かせる ような「夢」を持ち続け、常に「努力」し続けるときに「運命の女神」 がほほえみかけるのではないかと思います。 しばらく前に読んだ話を私が英文で書いてみました。（細かい文法や綴 りの間違いはあるかも知れません。） ---------------------------------------------------------------- There was a high school in Kanto(関東). The school had a strong club team of baseball. In a year the baseball club got a very good pitcher. The manager（監督） of the club thought that any batter could not hit his ball well. The baseball team went around Aichi Prefecture(県) to play games with other high school teams. The pitcher made good jobs in every game. Almost all the batters couldn't hit his ball well. But one day, they met an amazing（驚くべき） boy in a school. He was able to hit in all his turns. The manager of Kanto said, " What a wonderful player!" The manager of Aichi answered, "Yes. He can hit any ball in any time to anywhere(どこにでも) he wants." Some years later, the amazing boy became a professional baseball player in Kobe, and now is playing in America as a famous major leaguer. Do you know him? His name is Suzuki,Ichiro. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 私はこの話を新聞か何かで読んだんですが、相手チームの監督のことば He can hit any ball in any time to anywhere he wants. というのはイチロー選手の姿（才能）を良く表していますよね。（もち ろん監督は日本語で言ったんですよ！） 学校の先生や、塾の先生は「努力すれば誰でも一番になれる」というよ うなことを言いますが、正確ではありません。努力しないことには何も 始まりませんが、努力だけではある程度の所までしか行きません。一流 と呼ばれる仕事人になるには、努力の他に、持って生まれた「素質」が 欠かせません。世の中には野球選手になりたい、ピアニストになりたい、 作家になりたい、○○になりたい、と夢を抱く人は数え切れないくらい います。しかし実際にそれを職業にできる人はごくわずかですし、その 中で一流と呼ばれる人になるのはほんの一握りでしかありません。 努力することは大切ですが、自分の持って生まれた素質が何なのか、ど の方面の仕事をすれば自分の能力を最大限に生かせるのかを自分で把握 することも大切だと思います。 昨年イチロー以上に日本をわかせたヤンキースの松井秀喜選手。かれは 幼い頃ピアノを習っていたらしいです。ご両親は最初は野球よりピアノ …という気持ちだったらしいですが、しかしもし彼が最終的に野球では なくピアノを取ったとすれば、彼がどんなに努力家であっても、果たし て日本中を感動させるような大ピアニストになれたかどうか？ ピアノ を選ぶか、野球を選ぶかで彼の果たす「役割の大きさ」はずいぶん違っ たものになったはずです。やはり今となっては、彼の「野球の素質」を 見極めたことが成功の鍵だったと思います。 さて、それではあなたの「素質」はどこにあるのでしょうか？ある意味 では高校や大学の勉強は、あなたの隠された素質を見つけるための旅な のかも知れませんよ。 そういえば、このメルマガの何回か後に、「高校時代に自分の進む道を 見つけた少年」のお話が出てきます。ご期待下さい。 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Answer: His dream was to become a major league player. (or)It was to become a major league player. Answer: He was 37 years old. Answer: D,C,A,B |
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