総合学習塾英学伸の高校英語のオリジナル教材です。中央高校の期末テストの予想問題を作成しました。実際の試験前に弱点を補強するためのものです。

1. Reading Lesson3-4 期末プレ問題（中央高）
Ⅰ３題の共通したストーリーの英文があります。各英文を読み問いに答えなさい。
World War Ⅱ ended on August 15, 1945. On that night, the city lights were
turned on again. Tezuka Osamu looked at them. ①At that time he was sixteen
years old. During the war, there was terrible boming. ②He faced death again and
again. “I’m alive!” he thought.
Years later, he became a medical student. One day he met a ③patient. The
patient was dying. His face was often twisted with pain. 接属詞 at the point
of death, the look of pain ④went away. His face even looked peaceful. ⑤Then
an idea came to Tezuka.
⑥“Death isn’t the of life. It’s a part of life”.
Tezuka was moved by all of this. Later, in his works, Tezuka always tried to
express the ⑦dignity of life.
問１ に適切な接続詞を入れなさい。
問２ ①At the time はいつを指すか。英語で抜き出しなさい。
問３ ②、⑤日本語訳しなさい。
②
⑤
問４ ⑥は「死は人生の対極側にあるのではない。人生の一部だ。」という意味であるが、
空所に適当な英単語を書きなさい。
問５ ③、④、⑦の単語・熟語の意味を書きなさい。
③ ④ ⑦
Tezuka did not become a manga artist so easily. He started [①draw] manga for
a newspaper when he was a medical student. ②彼はいつもどちらの道に進むべきか
知りたかった. “Should I become a doctor or a manga artist”?
The year before he graduated, he interviewed a patient. The patient had very
large ears. They always moved while he was speaking. ③Tezuka thought that it
was very funny. He forgot to write his medical report and [④draw] a sketch.
When a senior doctor looked at the sketch, he said, “Are you really going to be a

2. doctor? You are a born manga artist”In the end, after he got his doctor’ license,
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he decided to become an artist.
問６ ①、④の語を適切な形に変えなさい。① ④
問７ 下線部②の日本語訳に合うように[ ]内の語を並び変えなさい。
[should, wondering, go, he, way, he, always, which, was]
問８ 下線部③の文を it の内容に注意して日本語訳しなさい。
①Tezuka was always drawing manga. In the car, in the train, even in the
airplane he drew manga. He even kept his pencil and notepad by his pillow.
At the end of his life, Tezuka got cancer. He was in and out of the hospital. But
even ②so, he did not stop (③think ) about manga. Even when he had to lie down
to get more rest, he ④carried on drawing manga.
After the middle of January, 1989, he became very weak. He was ⑤conscious
only sometimes. “I want to draw!” he said from his bed one day. About a month
later, his 60 years of life ended.
For Tezuka, ⑥drawing manga meant being alive. After he died, his wife read
his diary. She looked at the last page, January 15. There was a plan for a new
book of manga.
問９ 下線部①、⑥を日本語訳しなさい。
①
⑥
問１０ ②so の指す内容を英文中から英語でそのまま抜き出しなさい。
問１１ ③の動詞を適当な形に変えなさい。
問１２ ④、⑤の単語の意味を書きなさい。④ ⑤

3. Ⅱ３題の共通したストーリーの英文があります。各英文を読み問いに答えなさい。
This dog is Oso. Oso means “bear” in Spanish, but he lives in the USA. He is a
large, black, terrier mix. Oso loves to take a bath because he knows something
good happens after it. He puts on visor or neckerchief, and visit a nursing home.
When Oso goes into the room, he sees a group of people. An old lady calls him.
He goes to her. He puts his head on her lap. She ①pets him and talks to him. She
says, ”I enjoy (②meet ) Oso so much. ③私は彼に長くいてほしい。④私は彼にもっと
来てほしい.”
Some old people feel ⑤frustrated when they are not understood by other
people. However, they do not have ⑥this problem with Oso. Oso can understand
their feelings without words. Once he was a ⑦stray dog, but now he is helping
people.
問１ 下線部①、⑤、⑦の英単語の意味を答えなさい。
① ⑤ ⑦
問２ ②の動詞を適切な形に直しなさい。②
問３ ③、④の日本文を英訳（英語で書き変え）しなさい。
③ longer.
④ more often.
問４ This problem とは何か。日本語で説明しなさい。
①Not only dogs but also cats and rabbits visit nursing homes. ②( )( )
these visiting pets, life becomes more ③cheerful.
④Residents often feel ⑤bored, stressed, and weak. ⑥Spending time with the
animals gives them pleasure. ⑦Petting them reduces their stress. It also exercises
their hands and arms.
Residents do not feel lonely when they are with the animals. They often talk to
them to share their thoughts, feelings, and memories. The animals listen in their
own way.

4. When people enter a nursing home, they often have to leave their family or
close friends. However visiting pets become new friends. Age or physical ability
does not ⑧matter to them. They accept people ⑨as they are. ⑩Moreover, a lot
of people can share one animal visit. Even two strangers can talk about a pet
together and become friends.
問５ ③、④、⑤、⑧、⑨、⑩の英単語の意味を答えなさい。
③ ④ ⑤ ⑧ ⑨ ⑩
問６ 下線部②には「～のおかげで」というイディオムが入る。その熟語を記せ。
②( )( )
問７ 下線部①、⑥、⑦を和訳せよ。
①
⑥
⑦
Other animals can help people, too. For example, experts say that dolphins help
people with mental problems. ①They call it “dolphin therapy.” Dolphins show
care toward sick people and give them ②confidence.
We also know that ③riding a horse is good for injured or disabled people.
Horses walk rhythmically. This is good for bad legs. And, when you are riding a
horse, you must sit up straight. This ④improves your balance.
⑤ . However, animals
⑥make a big difference. Maybe your own pet can help other people, too.
問８ ②、④、⑥の英単語の意味を答えなさい。
② ④ ⑥
問９ 下線部①を和訳しなさい。ただし it の内容も明示すること。
問１０ 下線部③を和訳しなさい。
問１１ 下線部⑤「我々はいまだにどれほどのことが動物療法によってなしえることが可
能なのか、わかっていない」という意味の英文にしたい。下記の言葉を並び変え、適切な
文にせよ。[do, therapy, We, much, know, do, we, not, yet, how, can, with, animal]
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