英語読解力考査
試験時間:60分 配点:聴解力考査と合わせて90点
入学後の「英語での学び」への適性があるかを評価しようとしています。通常の日本の大学入試に多く見られる英文和訳・和文英訳のような問題とは異なり、英語でものを考え、理解し、分析する能力を測ることを目的とします。
全体の意味と各文の論理関係を理解する力が求められます。
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人間の進化の観点から見た「感情」
Contemporary psychologists who study human traits in the context of evolution assume that... |
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事物の分類命名
"Wisdom begins by calling things by their right names," goes the ancient proverb. |
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ヒーローの資質
Heroes are a fading memory in our times, but we can still recall some of their traditional qualities. |
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栄養学
To understand why nutrition science has been so spectacularly wrong about dietary fat and health, it’s important to realize that doing nutrition science isn’t easy. |
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自由資本主義の欠点
In the late 1980s, the historian W. Wayne Wager predicted the worldwide triumph of liberal democratic capitalism... |
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社会的地位と人間関係
An individual's interpersonal communication is greatly (51) by that... |
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人間の目の特性と協調性の関係
Neither chimpanzees nor any of the other 220 species of nonhuman primates have easily... |
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黙読について
Up until the end of the fourth century A.D., texts were read aloud, not silently. |
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音楽の力
What function did music serve humankind as we changed and developed? |
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"グローバリゼーション”の幻想
Every generation has its illusions. One of ours is that "globalization"... |
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社会的存在としての人間と言語
Not all social animals are social with the same degree of commitment. |
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グラフ図法
Data graphics visually display measured quantities by means of the combined use of... |
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”旅”の意義とは
Few industries are supposed to have more to look forward to than the travel industry. |
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”コーディネーション”の問題
"The pedestrian is a social being," wrote William H. Whyte, author of the bookCity. |
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サソリの蛍光現象
Naturalists from Aristotle on have been fascinated by scorpions... |
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読書離れの問題
A recent survey indicates that people who read for pleasure are many... |
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人間の生得的性質の存在
Intellectual life today is troubled by a great divide. On one side is a ... |
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企業による市場安定化方策
Contrary to popular belief, corporations and businessmen and even... |
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人間の本能と環境問題
Humans certainly did not descend as angelic beings into this world... |
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行動管理能力障害
You can be truly smart and still struggle in life if you lack... |
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神存在の目的論的論証
The teleological argument for the existence of God is based ... |
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肉食と食料問題
Every day hundreds of millions of people all over the world are going hungry |
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性差と差別
Throughout the animal kingdom, power differences are built into the biology of males and females. |
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複製技術
Digital materials are made up of both the digital representations and the perceptible forms produced from them. |
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必要と発明
It is often said as a matter of conventional wisdom that |
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文字の類型
The three basic strategies underlying writing systemsa round the world |
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歴史とは
History is about people. We have records of one kind or |
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波の種類
Almost everyone has seen how, when the smooth surface of a pond |
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法人の誕生
The modern corporation came to life in the hands of nine men. |
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未来像
Our visions of the future usually contain an interesting contradiction. |
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職業としての教師
Teachers like to view themselves as professionals. |
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カナダ英語
Influenced by the French, affected by the Arctic tongues of the Inuit, |
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サーモメーター
Our mental models of everyday mechanisms like refrigerators |
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古代洞窟壁画
The most magnificent examples of ancient creativity are |
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科学と世界観
A crucial philosophical change occurred in the seventeenth and |
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アルコール
A substance, like a person, may have distinct and even (69) |
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教育と技術
In a poll taken early last year, U.S. teachers ranked computer |
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ウルバヌス帝
Not many people today remember Pope Urban Part II . |
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刺青
The art of tattooing is an ancient craft known to humankind |
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新聞と女性
An annual sampling of major newspapers in the United States |
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食品と殺虫剤
In the summer of 1996 the US Congress agreed to revise |
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道具の進化
The gradual change and development, or evolution, of the |
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読書論
Everywhere one meets the idea that reading is an activity |
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生活と楽しみ
In America in 1996, everything is pretty easy. |
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心臓の機能
One of the first mysteries humans tried to solve was the |
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技術の進歩
It is becoming increasingly clear that the comfort of a good fit |
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脱工業化社会
In almost every advanced economy over the past 20 years, |
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言語本能
Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn |
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先住アメリカ人
By 1776, when the United States was established, |
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欲求と技術革新
Observers of Nature have long marveled at how the earth's |
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体内時計
According to an increasing number of researchers, |
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人間と自然
Human actions have shaped the environment in which |
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トランプの歴史
There are dozens of card manufacturers around the world |
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労働とレジャー
"Leisure" is the most misunderstood word in our vocabulary. |
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美術と教養
The tem fine arts may be traced back to the older but |
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数学力と性差
The old debate about sex-based mental differences was given |
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類推とは
When drawing an analogy, people observe similarities |
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英国の開発教育
Supporters of development education point to the British |
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言語論
Benjamin Lee Whorf was a linguist who worked in the |
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ソリトン
The tallest ocean wave is not the tsunami, or tidal wave, |
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マグナカルタ
England's Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter") and |
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惑星衝突
If Earth's close encounter with a kilometer-wide asteroid |
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警官の汚職
According to some psychologists, police officers who become |
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作業方法
Not too long ago a thirty-year-old financial analyst was |
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おとぎばなし
Fairy tale literature is one of the great kinds, a body of stories |
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言語の歴史
The essence of history is change taking place in time. |
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シャーマニズム
Shamanism is a religious phenomenon characteristic of |
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企業家
"The entrepreneur," said the French economist J. B. |
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N.ウェブスター
Since its completion in 1825, Noah Webster's American |
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科学とは
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of |
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