━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆◆ ２００３年・公立高校入試・英語長文 ◆◆ 中３用 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 第２０回 都立八王子の長文 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ＜塾長から＞ 今日から都立の問題をいくつか見ていきます。東京都は問題の作り方が 他と違っていて、普通の府県のように「東京都の問題」がある一方で、 日比谷高校とか戸山高校といった一部の都立高校は、「その高校独自の 問題」を作っています。レベル的には普通の公立の問題より少し難しく 作ってあります。文も長いですからそのつもりで読んでください。 今回は八王子高校の問題文です。 ━ ＜ １．今日の単語 ＞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ factory 工場 soda ソーダ水 tab 口金（缶ジュースなどを開けるときに引っ張る金具） surely きっと salesman 販売員 showroom （車の）展示場 gasoline ガソリン wide 広い "SOLD" sticker 「売約済み」のラベル park 駐車する far side of 〜 〜の向こう側 key かぎ、キー secret 秘密 hug 抱きしめる key ring キーホルダー ━＜ ２．今日の先読み ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 今日の単語は、数が多い割にテーマに統一性がありませんよね。このよ うなときは先読みが非常に難しいものです。私も読み終わるまでよく分 かりませんでした。とりあえず車に関すること、車を買ったり売ったり することと関係がありそうだ、というくらいでいいと思います。後は読 んでのお楽しみ！ ━＜ ３．今日の本文 ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My father was a kind and strong man. He worked for a * factory for many years. When I was ten years old, I took two of my friends to the factory. I wanted them to meet my father. After we walked around the factory, I said to my father, "Can we have something to drink before we go home for lunch?" My father did not answer soon, but said, "Sure," and gave us some money. We ran to the shop in the factory to buy our * sodas. We were collecting the * tabs on the cans in those days. We were able to get a special baseball cap if we sent twenty tabs to the soda company. I needed only one more tab to get the cap, and I was able to get the last tab at that time. We all said to my father, "Thank you," and went home for lunch. After lunch we enjoyed swimming and fishing in the river together. That was a really happy summer day. When I came home and went into the living room, I heard the voices of my parents. They were in the kitchen. My mother was angry and said to my father, 'You didn't have money for sodas! Bill was *surely able to understand. That money was for your lunch. You used it for the sodas for them. The children have to understand that we don't have enough money. And you need to have your lunch." But my father did not say anything about it. Before my mother found me, I went up to my room. I shared the room with my three brothers, but they were out then. So, I took the tab from my pocket and looked at it for a long time. That night I went to bed early. In the bed, I thanked my father, and said to myself, "Dad, I'll never forget TODAY. Some day I'll do something for you. And I'll never lose this tab!" About thirty years passed. My father grew old and weak. He did not work any more. I was looking for a new car. My father knew a * salesman at Jones Motors in my town, so I said, "Dad, I want to buy a new car at Jones Motors. Will you come with me?" He agreed. We visited the salesman at the * showroom. I started to talk with him, but my father was looking at a white car there. It was a very beautiful car. My father moved his hand over the car with a smile. I said, "Dad, it's a really good car, isn't it? But I would like to buy a small car that doesn't need so much *gasoline." When the salesman left the showroom, I said to my father, "Let's drive the white car." "Well, but you don't have enough money to buy that, do you?" he said. "I know that, and you know that, but the salesman doesn't," I said. When my father drove it for ten minutes and came to a *wide road, we both laughed like happy children. He said, "This car runs very fast and easily!" We really enjoyed driving the white car very much. After we returned to the showroom, we drove another car. It was a small yellow car. My father said it was better for me because it did not need much gasoline. I liked it very much. I decided to buy the yellow car and told the salesman about it. The next day I went to Jones Motors again. 【I talked with the salesman for some time.】 A few days later, I called my father and said, "Will you come with me to get the car?" He answered, "Yes, of course." I thought he wanted to look at "his white car" again. When we arrived at the showroom, I saw my little yellow car. It had a * "SOLD" sticker on it. The beautiful white car was next to mine. There was a big "SOLD" sticker on the window of the car, too. I saw my father. He looked sad. He said, "Someone bought that beautiful car!" I did not answer. I just said, "Dad, would you go into the showroom and wait for me there? I'll * park the car and come back soon." My father walked to the white car. He touched it and moved his hand over it again. I moved my car to the * far side of the building and looked at my father from the car window. Then I was remembering that summer day. He gave up lunch and gave us his money. He gave up everything for his family, too. My father sat and was talking with the salesman. I watched them. Then the salesman gave him the * key to his car --- the white one --- and explained that it was a present for him from me. Of course the salesman did not forget to say this was our * secret. I asked the salesman to do so before! My father looked at me from the window. Our eyes met. We both laughed a lot. My father came out of the showroom. I walked to him and * hugged him. And I said, "Dad, how do you like the car? I really wanted to give it to you as a present. I didn't tell you anything about it because I wanted to * surprise you." My father laughed and said, "Well, Bill, I understood the car. I really like it very much. But I can't understand why an old tab was used as its * key ring." -------------------------------------------------------- Question A : Answer in English. (1) How old was Bill when he took two of his friends to the factory? (2) What was the money from Bill's father used for? (3) Which car did Bill's father really like better, the yellow car or the white one? (4) How did Bill's father look when he saw a "SOLD" sticker on the white car? (5) What was used as the key ring for the white car? Question B: 次の会話は問題文中の【 】の部分において、Bill と Salesman の間 で交わされたものである。（１）〜（５）の中に入れる文として最も適 切なものはどれか。それぞれ下のア〜オの中から選びなさい。 Bill : I bought a yellow car here yesterday. Do you remember? Salesman : Oh, yes, I do. You came here with your father. Is anything wrong? Bill : No. The car is OK. ( 1 ) I really have to buy another one. Salesman : Really! Thank you very much. Which one would you like to buy? Bill : Well, the car you see over there. That white one. Salesman : Oh, that one. ( 2 ) Everyone likes it. I think you'll like it. Bill : Well, , that car isn't for me. ( 3 ) Salesman : Well, that's great. ( 4 ) Your father will be very glad to know that. Bill : I hope so, and I want to surprise him. Will you put a "SOLD" sticker on the car? Salesman : Sure. Bill : ( 5 ) You can guess how he will feel to see the sticker. Then tell him about my present. This is our secret. OK? Salesman : All right. （ア）I'm going to buy it as a present for my father. （イ）That car is very nice, isn't it? （ウ）I'll come back here with my father in a few days. （エ）You are a good son. （オ）I've come here to buy another car. ━＜ ４．塾長のコメント ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 今日の文はちょっとホロッとくる良い文でした。日頃このような文を読 んでいると世の中平和になると思うのですが…。 昔のことを思えば、私も父親にいろいろやってもらいました。それこそ 数えあげれば切りがないくらいですし、思い出すとジーンと来るような こともいくつかあります。しかし、私にはこの主人公のように「自分の 車より高い車」をぽんと買ってあげるほどの度胸（というより優しさ？） は今のところなさそうです。もうちょっとお金に余裕ができたら…など と思ってしまうのです。 このようなダメな息子を戒（いまし）める諺が、「親孝行、したいとき に親はなし」というやつでしょうね。私の親も高齢になってきましたか ら、親孝行をしなきゃと思うのですが、未だに心配の種を蒔き続けてい るというのが実情です。（懺悔） ----------------------------------------------------------- 答 Q.A (1) He was ten years old. (2) It was used for the sodas for Bill and his friends. (3) He (really) liked the white one better. (4) He looked sad. (5) An old tab was. Q.B オイアエウ |
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