読解(入学試験)
解き方
- 先に設問を読んで、何を探すかをつかみます。
- 文章をざっと読んで、話題と要点をつかみます。最初か最後の文に書かれていることがよくあります。
- 設問の答えになるまさにその箇所に戻ります。
- 推論では、手がかりが最も強く裏づける選択肢を選び、それ以上に踏み込んだものは選びません。
- ラベルや表では、当てはまる規則をすべて適用し、簡単な計算を慎重に行います。
公式集、全トピックの解法の要点、6 問の演習問題。完全な解答は巻末にあります。
Frogs begin life as eggs laid in water. The eggs hatch into tadpoles, which have tails and breathe with gills. Over several weeks, tadpoles grow legs, lose their tails and develop lungs. How is the passage mainly organised?
“The phone rang at 3 a.m. Lena’s heart pounded as she reached for it, already imagining the worst.” What does the author suggest by “already imagining the worst”?
Which sentence refers correctly to the whole Jones family?
Which sentence is punctuated correctly with a nonessential clause at the end?
Choose the meaning of the word in bold: “The mortality rate from the disease has fallen.”
Choose the meaning of the word in bold: “After treatment the patient’s leukaemia was in remission.”
答え: B · In time order, describing stages of growth
The passage follows the frog’s life from egg to tadpole to adult, which is chronological (sequence) order.
答え: D · Lena expected bad news.
A call at 3 a.m., her pounding heart and “imagining the worst” all suggest she feared bad news.
答え: D · The Joneses are coming to dinner.
To make a family name ending in s plural, add -es: the Joneses. An apostrophe never makes a plural.
答え: B · We visited the new wing, which opened last month.
A nonessential clause at the end of a sentence is set off by one comma before “which”. A semicolon cannot introduce a dependent clause.
答え: A · Death
Mortality refers to death; the mortality rate is the number of deaths in a population.
答え: A · A period when signs of disease lessen or disappear
Remission is a period in which the signs and symptoms of a disease decrease or disappear.
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