(2－1)　

I got home from the office yesterday to find one of my kitchen windows broken, and glass all over the floor.  My first thought was that I had been robbed, because I knew that several houses in the neighborhood had been broken into in the past few days.  I was just about to check the drawer where I keep my money and other valuables, when someone rang the doorbell.  I went to see who it was and found my neighbor’s little boy standing there.  “Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, can I have my ball back?” he said, pointing to a ball that was lying under the kitchen table.  I gave a big sigh and went to pick it up.

Question No.1  How did Mr. Jones feel before he saw the boy?  Choose the word which best describes his feeling from the list in the test book.

Question No. 2  How did Mr. Jones feel after he saw the boy?  Choose the word which best describes his feeling from the list in the test book.

(2－2)　

Listen carefully to another story and answer the question which follows it.

My father asked me to meet an old school friend of his at the airport.  My father told me what his friend looked like, and I knew the flight number and the arrival time, but I was still a little nervous as I had not met this man before and I was not sure I would be able to recognize him in the crowd.  I even thought of writing his name on a piece of card and holding it above my head, but I need not have worried.  As the arriving passengers came through the gate, a well-dressed gentleman of about my father’s age approached me and said, “Hello, young man.  I’m Bill Thompson.  Are you waiting for me by any chance?”  I nodded.  He smiled and said, “I’d have known you anywhere.  It’s like looking at a picture of your father twenty years ago.”

  How did the man know who the boy was when he saw him?  Answer in Japanese in the space provided.

(3)　

  A hungry fox had been trying to reach some grapes high above his head.  At last he walked away, as if he did not care about them.  He said, “Those grapes were probably sour anyway.”

３．解答・全訳

(1) 1. B　　2. H　　3. E　　4. 4　　5. H

【全訳】

これは東海道新幹線の時刻表の一部である。運行は全て東京発である。

では，次の5つの質問に答えなさい。

No. 1　時刻表の列車の1本は東京を8時30分より前に出発し，新大阪に11時30分以降に到着する。

その列車はどれか。

No. 2　米原に停車する3本の列車のうち，11時から12時の間に新大阪に到着するのはどの列車か。

No. 3　名古屋のホテルで10時30分から始まる結婚式に参加したい。駅からホテルまで15分かかる。

東京から乗れる一番遅い列車はどれか。

No. 4　11時50分までに新大阪に着かなければならない。8時かそれ以降の東京発の列車の1本の座席を予約したい。2本の列車の座席を取ろうとしたが，これらの列車の座席は全てすでに満席である。

他に何本の列車で座席の予約を試みることができるか。

No. 5　岐阜羽島に停車する唯一の列車は鈍行列車である。後から出るもっと快速の列車で東京を発ち，名古屋でその鈍行列車に乗り換えて移動を完了すると，移動時間の節約が可能になる。

これを可能にする東京発の一番遅い時刻に発車する列車はどれか。