（AI英語）（我流によるAI活用）（間違いがある可能性もあるので各自確認のこと）
Leafy greens like kale and spinach are full of fiber, vitamins, and minerals,
and nutritionists want to see us eating more of them to prevent chronic disease.
But turning this rabbit food (あ ) a delicious dish takes patience and skill
that some people lack. If you aren't up for dealing with food prep and cleanup,
you can go for days without eating anything green. Just 1 in 10 of Americans
meet the daily recommendations for veggies, which is 2-4 cups a day.
Now a silly food hack has emerged on TikTok to make eating them easier:
People have taken to shoving handfuls of greens into their mouths, sometimes
straight from the bag, so they can get all of the nutrients — fiber, vitamins C and
K, calcium, iron —with minimal effort. The trend has been dubbed "Dinosaur
Time", and it was started by a former middle school science teacher in California
named Amy Garrett, who uses the TikTok handle @sahmthingsup and has nearly
50, 000 followers. During her baby's naptime, Garrett films videos of herself
chomping down on romaine lettuce or spinach while she stands over her kitchen
sink and the Jurassic Park* theme plays in the background. These TikToks have
been shared over 200, 000 times and inspired others to incorporate Dinosaur Time
into their diets.
Leafy greens are among the most nutritious of foods, (A ) compared to
other fruits and vegetables, says Julie Stefanski, a registered dietician in
Pennsylvania. Eating them regularly helps decrease the risks of heart disease
and certain cancers. Studies have also found that they can slow age-related
cognitive decline and help people maintain bone density. So the more you can get
them in your diet the better, says Stefanski, even if your meal isn't exactly
elegant. "We often strive for so much perfection with food or cooking
techniques, and it's really not necessary."
Garrett said she first started doing Dinosaur Time when she was doing
CrossFit* semi-competitively and was struggling to hit her daily nutrition goals.
Another athlete shared that they accomplished this by eating handfuls of plain
greens before meals; Garrett gave it a try and found that taking the big, messy
bites of raw spinach, bok choy, or microgreens was both easy and made her feel
( い) a monstrous herbivore*. Now a stay-at-home mom with limited time,
she's picked up Dinosaur Time again. "Instead of feeling guilty about not eating
vegetables, I'll just shove them down my face and eat what I normally eat
without any guilt," she says.
One group on TikTok that seems to really enjoy Dinosaur Time is parents
with kids. That doesn't surprise Stefanski, who used to work with kids with
autism* and sensory processing disorders*, which can lead to selective eating.
She says one of the few things children can control is what they eat and they can
hesitate to try a new food because they don't like how it looks or feels. By
pretending to be giant reptiles, kids touch vegetables that they might otherwise
avoid - which is a win, even if they don't end ( う) eating anything since
they're still exploring a new food.
"Giving kids the space to do that on their own is so important,” Stefanski
says. Stefanski doubts Dinosaur Time will become a permanent fixture in most
peoples' diets as most food trends eventually go extinct. However, if you hate
doing dishes then Dinosaur Time might be worth a try.
( В ), Stefanski doesn't want people to replace their meals with large
quantities of raw greens. Dinosaur Time should be additive to people's normal
eating patterns, not a weight-loss strategy. Garrett agrees, which is why she
shows what she's eating for lunch at the end of each TikTok video. Recent
meals include barbecued chicken, a tuna sandwich, and spicy kebab.
Emma Longsjo of Boston says that's part of Dinosaur Time's appeal. She
grew up doing ballet and felt pressure to be thin; as an adult, she tries to avoid
social media content that combines health with body image. But with Dinosaur
Time, she knows she's doing something good for her body, that's also kind of
fun. "The first time I was thinking of that scene in Jurassic Park where they're
seeing the long neck one, where he's like, chomping on the trees," says Longsjo,
referring to when the stunned scientists first encounter a brachiosaurus*.
(C), Longsjo has finished off three bags of spinach because of Dinosaur
Time and plans to buy a fourth this week.
(A) の文：
"Leafy greens are among the most nutritious of foods, (A ) compared to other fruits and vegetables…"
ここでは「葉物野菜は他の果物や野菜と比べて…」と言いたいので、適切なのは even when（〜であっても）です。
✅ (A) → even when
(B) の文：
"( В ), Stefanski doesn't want people to replace their meals with large quantities of raw greens."
文脈から、ここでは「念のため、はっきり言うと」といった意味が合います。
✅ (B) → To be clear
(C) の文：
"(C), Longsjo has finished off three bags of spinach because of Dinosaur Time and plans to buy a fourth this week."
文脈として、「少なくとも（言っておくと）」という意味が自然です。
✅ (C) → To say the least
答えまとめ
(A) → even when
(B) → To be clear
(C) → To say the least
4 空欄(あ ) ~ (う )に入れるのに最も適した語句を次の中からそれぞれ1
つ選び、その記号を解答欄に書きなさい。ただし、同じ語が2つ以上の空欄に入
ることはない。
1into like off up ホ with
空欄 (あ) ～ (う) に入れる最も適切な語句は以下の通りです。
(あ) → into
(い) → up
(う) → off
Leafy greens like kale and spinach are full of fiber, vitamins, and minerals, and nutritionists want to see us eating more of them to prevent chronic disease.
But turning this rabbit food into a delicious dish takes patience and skill that some people lack. If you aren't up for dealing with food prep and cleanup, you can go for days without eating anything green. Just 1 in 10 of Americans meet the daily recommendations for veggies, which is 2-4 cups a day.
Now a silly food hack has emerged on TikTok to make eating them easier: People have taken to shoving handfuls of greens into their mouths, sometimes straight from the bag, so they can get all of the nutrients — fiber, vitamins C and K, calcium, iron —with minimal effort. The trend has been dubbed "Dinosaur Time", and it was started by a former middle school science teacher in California named Amy Garrett, who uses the TikTok handle @sahmthingsup and has nearly 50,000 followers. During her baby's naptime, Garrett films videos of herself chomping down on romaine lettuce or spinach while she stands over her kitchen sink and the Jurassic Park* theme plays in the background. These TikToks have been shared over 200,000 times and inspired others to incorporate Dinosaur Time into their diets.
Leafy greens are among the most nutritious of foods, even when compared to other fruits and vegetables, says Julie Stefanski, a registered dietician in Pennsylvania. Eating them regularly helps decrease the risks of heart disease and certain cancers. Studies have also found that they can slow age-related cognitive decline and help people maintain bone density. So the more you can get them in your diet the better, says Stefanski, even if your meal isn't exactly elegant. "We often strive for so much perfection with food or cooking techniques, and it's really not necessary."
Garrett said she first started doing Dinosaur Time when she was doing CrossFit* semi-competitively and was struggling to hit her daily nutrition goals. Another athlete shared that they accomplished this by eating handfuls of plain greens before meals; Garrett gave it a try and found that taking the big, messy bites of raw spinach, bok choy, or microgreens was both easy and made her feel up a monstrous herbivore*. Now a stay-at-home mom with limited time, she's picked up Dinosaur Time again. "Instead of feeling guilty about not eating vegetables, I'll just shove them down my face and eat what I normally eat without any guilt," she says.
One group on TikTok that seems to really enjoy Dinosaur Time is parents with kids. That doesn't surprise Stefanski, who used to work with kids with autism* and sensory processing disorders*, which can lead to selective eating. She says one of the few things children can control is what they eat and they can hesitate to try a new food because they don't like how it looks or feels. By pretending to be giant reptiles, kids touch vegetables that they might otherwise avoid - which is a win, even if they don't end off eating anything since they're still exploring a new food.
"Giving kids the space to do that on their own is so important,” Stefanski says. Stefanski doubts Dinosaur Time will become a permanent fixture in most peoples' diets as most food trends eventually go extinct. However, if you hate doing dishes then Dinosaur Time might be worth a try.
To be clear, Stefanski doesn't want people to replace their meals with large quantities of raw greens. Dinosaur Time should be additive to people's normal eating patterns, not a weight-loss strategy. Garrett agrees, which is why she shows what she's eating for lunch at the end of each TikTok video. Recent meals include barbecued chicken, a tuna sandwich, and spicy kebab.
Emma Longsjo of Boston says that's part of Dinosaur Time's appeal. She grew up doing ballet and felt pressure to be thin; as an adult, she tries to avoid social media content that combines health with body image. But with Dinosaur Time, she knows she's doing something good for her body, that's also kind of fun. "The first time I was thinking of that scene in Jurassic Park where they're seeing the long neck one, where he's like, chomping on the trees," says Longsjo, referring to when the stunned scientists first encounter a brachiosaurus*.
To say the least, Longsjo has finished off three bags of spinach because of Dinosaur Time and plans to buy a fourth this week.
ケールやほうれん草のような葉物野菜は、食物繊維やビタミン、ミネラルが豊富で、栄養士たちは慢性的な病気を防ぐために、私たちがもっと葉物野菜を食べることを望んでいます。
しかし、この「ウサギのえさ」のような野菜を美味しい料理に変えるには、忍耐と技術が必要であり、それを持たない人もいます。食材の準備や片付けに対応する気がなければ、数日間まったく緑の野菜を食べないこともあります。アメリカ人のわずか10人に1人しか、野菜の1日の推奨摂取量（2〜4カップ）を満たしていません。
そんな中、葉物野菜を食べやすくするためのちょっとしたフードハックがTikTokで登場しました。人々は、栄養素（食物繊維、ビタミンCやK、カルシウム、鉄）を最小限の努力で摂取できるように、時には袋から直接、手いっぱいに葉物野菜を口に押し込むようになったのです。このトレンドは「ダイナソータイム」と名付けられ、カリフォルニア州の元中学校理科教師であるエイミー・ギャレット（TikTokハンドル名 @sahmthingsup）が始め、フォロワーはほぼ5万人に達しています。ギャレットは赤ちゃんの昼寝中に、自分がキッチンのシンクの上に立ちながらロメインレタスやほうれん草をかじる動画を撮影し、バックには『ジュラシック・パーク』のテーマ曲が流れます。これらのTikTok動画は20万回以上シェアされ、他の人々もダイナソータイムを食生活に取り入れるようになりました。
葉物野菜は他の果物や野菜と比べても、最も栄養価の高い食品のひとつです、とペンシルベニア州の登録栄養士ジュリー・ステファンスキーは言います。定期的に食べることで、心臓病や特定のがんのリスクを減らすのに役立ちます。研究によれば、加齢に伴う認知機能の低下を遅らせたり、骨密度の維持にも効果があります。そのため、食事に取り入れるほど良いのだとステファンスキーは言います。たとえ食事が完璧でなくても構わないのです。「私たちは食事や調理法の完璧さを追求しすぎることがありますが、実際にはそんなに必要ありません。」
ギャレットは、半競技的にクロスフィットをしていた時、1日の栄養目標を達成するのに苦労していたときにダイナソータイムを始めたと言います。あるアスリートが、食事前に手いっぱいの生野菜を食べることで達成していたことを教えてくれ、ギャレットも試してみると、ほうれん草やチンゲン菜、マイクログリーンの大きくて乱雑な生野菜のかじり方が簡単で、自分が巨大な草食恐竜になった気分になれることがわかりました。現在は時間が限られた専業主婦となった彼女ですが、再びダイナソータイムを取り入れています。「野菜を食べていないことに罪悪感を感じる代わりに、ただ口に押し込み、普段通りの食事を罪悪感なく楽しむの」と彼女は言います。
TikTokでダイナソータイムを本当に楽しんでいるグループのひとつは、子どもを持つ親たちです。これは、かつて自閉症や感覚処理障害のある子どもたちと関わっていたステファンスキーにとっても驚きではありません。これらの障害により、子どもは選択的に食べることがあります。ステファンスキーによれば、子どもが自分でコントロールできることのひとつは「何を食べるか」であり、見た目や感触が嫌で新しい食べ物を試すのをためらうことがあります。巨大な爬虫類になりきることで、普段は避ける野菜に触れることができ、これは勝利です。たとえ最後まで食べ切らなくても、新しい食べ物を探索していることには変わりありません。
「子どもが自分でそうできる空間を与えることは非常に重要です」とステファンスキーは言います。ステファンスキーは、ダイナソータイムが多くの人々の食生活に恒久的に定着することはないだろうと考えています。ほとんどの食のトレンドはやがて廃れるからです。しかし、皿洗いが嫌いな人にとっては、ダイナソータイムは試す価値があるかもしれません。
はっきり言って、ステファンスキーは人々が大量の生野菜で食事を置き換えることを望んでいません。ダイナソータイムは、通常の食生活に追加するものであり、減量の手段ではありません。ギャレットも同意しており、それが理由で彼女は各TikTok動画の最後に昼食内容を見せています。最近の食事には、バーベキューチキン、ツナサンド、スパイシーケバブが含まれています。
ボストンのエマ・ロングショーによれば、それもダイナソータイムの魅力の一部です。彼女はバレエをして育ち、痩せていなければならないというプレッシャーを感じていました。大人になった今、健康と体型を結びつけたSNSコンテンツは避けるようにしています。しかし、ダイナソータイムでは、体に良いことをしつつ、ちょっと楽しいこともできるのです。「初めての時は、『ジュラシック・パーク』で首の長い恐竜が木をかじっているシーンを思い浮かべていました」とロングショーは言います。
控えめに言っても、ロングショーはダイナソータイムのせいでほうれん草の袋を3袋食べ終え、今週は4袋目を買う予定です。
◆II 次の英文を読み、下の問いに答えなさい。(*を付した語句には、問題文の末尾
に注がある。)
Though it's a hard thing to establish scientifically, we're almost certainly
much more impatient than we used to be. Our decreasing tolerance for delay is
reflected in statistics on everything from road rage* and the length of politicians'
handouts to the number of seconds the average web user is prepared to wait for
a page to load. (It has been calculated that if Amazon's first page loaded one
second more (あ ), the company would lose $1.6 billion in annual sales.) And
yet at first glance, this seems exceedingly strange. Virtually every new
technology, from the steam engine to mobile broadband*, (A) more quickly
than before. Shouldn't this therefore have reduced our (B), by allowing us
to live at something closer to the speed we'd prefer? Yet since the beginning of
the modern era of acceleration, people have been responding not with satisfaction
at all the time saved but with increasing distress that they can't make things
move faster still.
This is another mystery, though, that's illuminated when you understand it as a form of resistance to our built-in human limitations.
The reason that technological progress intensifies our feelings of ( B ) is that each new
advance seems to bring us closer to the point of overcoming our limits; it seems
to promise that this time, finally, we might be able to make things go fast enough
for us to feel completely in control of our unfolding time. And so every reminder
that in fact we can't achieve such a level of control starts to feel more unpleasant
as a result. Once you can heat your dinner in the microwave in sixty seconds, it
begins to seem genuinely realistic that you might be able to do so(い), in
zero seconds. And this makes it all the( C ) unbearably frustrating that you
still have to wait an entire minute instead.
(D ) will it make much difference, unfortunately, if you personally
managed to achieve the inner peace to avoid this kind of reaction, because you'll
still end up suffering from social ( В )-that is, from the wider culture's
rising expectations about how quickly things ought to happen. Once more people
believe that one ought to be able to answer forty emails in the space of an hour
your continued employment may become dependent on being able to do so,
regardless of your feelings on the matter.
There may be no more vivid demonstration of this growing sense of
discomfort, of wanting to hasten the speed of reality, than what's happened to
the experience of reading. Over the last decade or so, more and more people
have begun to report an overpowering feeling, whenever they pick up a book,
that gets labeled "restlessness" or "distraction" -but which is actually best
understood as a form of( B), a strong dislike of the fact that the act of
reading takes longer than they'd like. "I've been finding it harder and harder to
concentrate on words, sentences, paragraphs", laments Hugh McGuire, the
founder of the audiobook service LibriVox and (at least until recently) a lifelong
reader of literary fiction. "Let ( E ) chapters. Chapters often have page
after page of paragraphs." He describes what's shifted in the(う) delicious
experience of sliding into bed with a book: “A sentence. Two sentences. Maybe
three.
And then... I needed just a little something else. Something to scratch
the itch at the back of my mind —just a quick look at e-mail on my iPhone; to
write, and erase, a response to a funny tweet from a favorite author; to find, and
follow, a link to a good, really good, article in The New Yorker*.."
People complain that they no longer have "time to read", but the reality, as
the novelist Tim Parks has pointed out, is (え) that they literally can't locate
an empty half hour in the course of the day. What they mean is that when they
do find a little bit of time, and use it to try to read, they find they are too
impatient to commit themselves to the task. "It is not simply that one is
interrupted," writes Parks, "it is that one is actually inclined to interruption." It's
not so much that we are too busy, or too easily distracted, but that we are
unwilling to accept the truth that reading is the sort of activity that largely
operates according to its own schedule. You can't hurry it very much before the
experience begins to lose its meaning; it refuses to consent, you might say, to our
desire to exert control over how our time unfolds. In other words, and in
common with far more aspects of reality than we are comfortable acknowledging,
reading something properly takes just the time it takes.
▲
Though it's a hard thing to establish scientifically, we're almost certainly much more impatient than we used to be. Our decreasing tolerance for delay is reflected in statistics on everything from road rage and the length of politicians' handouts to the number of seconds the average web user is prepared to wait for a page to load. (It has been calculated that if Amazon's first page loaded one second more (あ) slowly, the company would lose $1.6 billion in annual sales.) And yet at first glance, this seems exceedingly strange. Virtually every new technology, from the steam engine to mobile broadband,
★（ (A)has permitted us to get things done ）more quickly than before.
Shouldn't this therefore have reduced our ★(B) impatience , by allowing us to live at something closer to the speed we'd prefer? Yet since the beginning of the modern era of acceleration, people have been responding not with satisfaction at all the time saved but with increasing distress that they can't make things move faster still.
This is another mystery, though, that's illuminated when you understand it as a form of resistance to our built-in human limitations. The reason that technological progress intensifies our feelings of ★(B) impatience is that each new advance seems to bring us closer to the point of overcoming our limits; it seems to promise that this time, finally, we might be able to make things go fast enough for us to feel completely in control of our unfolding time. And so every reminder that in fact we can't achieve such a level of control starts to feel more unpleasant as a result. Once you can heat your dinner in the microwave in sixty seconds, it begins to seem genuinely realistic that you might be able to do so (い) instantaneously, in zero seconds. And this makes it all the ★(C) more unbearably frustrating that you still have to wait an entire minute instead.
★(D) Nor will it make much difference, unfortunately, if you personally managed to achieve the inner peace to avoid this kind of reaction, because you'll still end up suffering from social ★(B) impatience — that is, from the wider culture's rising expectations about how quickly things ought to happen. Once more people believe that one ought to be able to answer forty emails in the space of an hour, your continued employment may become dependent on being able to do so, regardless of your feelings on the matter.
There may be no more vivid demonstration of this growing sense of discomfort, of wanting to hasten the speed of reality, than what's happened to the experience of reading. Over the last decade or so, more and more people have begun to report an overpowering feeling, whenever they pick up a book, that gets labeled "restlessness" or "distraction" — but which is actually best understood as a form of ★(B) impatience , a strong dislike of the fact that the act of reading takes longer than they'd like. "I've been finding it harder and harder to concentrate on words, sentences, paragraphs," laments Hugh McGuire, the founder of the audiobook service LibriVox and (at least until recently) a lifelong reader of literary fiction. "Let ★(E) alone chapters. Chapters often have page after page of paragraphs." He describes what's shifted in the (う) formerly delicious experience of sliding into bed with a book: “A sentence. Two sentences. Maybe three. And then... I needed just a little something else. Something to scratch the itch at the back of my mind — just a quick look at e-mail on my iPhone; to write, and erase, a response to a funny tweet from a favorite author; to find, and follow, a link to a good, really good, article in The New Yorker..."
People complain that they no longer have "time to read", but the reality, as the novelist Tim Parks has pointed out, is (え) rarely that they literally can't locate an empty half hour in the course of the day. What they mean is that when they do find a little bit of time, and use it to try to read, they find they are too impatient to commit themselves to the task. "It is not simply that one is interrupted," writes Parks, "it is that one is actually inclined to interruption." It's not so much that we are too busy, or too easily distracted, but that we are unwilling to accept the truth that reading is the sort of activity that largely operates according to its own schedule. You can't hurry it very much before the experience begins to lose its meaning; it refuses to consent, you might say, to our desire to exert control over how our time unfolds. In other words, and in common with far more aspects of reality than we are comfortable acknowledging, reading something properly takes just the time it takes.
【和訳】
科学的に立証するのは難しいことだが、私たちはかつてよりも確実に、はるかに短気になっている。遅れに対する私たちの耐性の低下は、ロード・レジ（運転中の割り込みなどへの激昂）から政治家の配布物の長さ、さらには平均的なウェブユーザーがページの読み込みを待てる秒数に至るまで、あらゆる統計に反映されている。（アマゾンの最初のページ読み込みが1秒でも**(あ)遅くなれば、同社は年間16億ドルの売上を失うという試算もある。）しかし一見すると、これは非常に奇妙なことに思える。蒸気機関からモバイルブロードバンドに至るまで、事実上あらゆる新技術が、以前よりも物事を素早く(A)成し遂げることを可能にしてきたからだ。したがって、私たちが好むスピードに近い状態で生活できるようになったことで、私たちの★(B)短気（焦燥感）**は軽減されているはずではないだろうか。ところが、加速の近代が始まって以来、人々は節約された時間に満足するどころか、物事をさらに速く動かせないことに対して、ますます苦痛を感じるようになっている。
しかし、これもまた一つの謎であり、それを「人間に備わっている限界」に対する一種の抵抗として理解すれば、その謎は解けてくる。技術の進歩が私たちの★(B)短気（焦燥感）を強める理由は、新たな進歩があるたびに、自らの限界を克服できる地点に近づいているように思えるからだ。つまり、今度こそついに、展開していく自分の時間を完全にコントロールできていると感じられるほど、物事を速く進められるようになるのではないか、という期待を抱かせるのである。その結果、実際にはそのようなレベルのコントロールは達成できないのだと思い知らされるたびに、以前よりも不快に感じるようになる。電子レンジで夕食を60秒で温められるようになると、それを(い)瞬時に、つまり0秒でできるのではないかということが、がぜん現実味を帯びてくる。そうなると、代わりに丸々1分間も待たなければならないことが、★(C)いっそう耐えがたいほどイライラすることに感じられるのである。
★(D)また残念ながら、たとえあなた個人がこのような反応を避けるための心の平穏を得られたとしても、あまり状況は変わらないだろう。なぜなら、結局は「社会的な★(B)短気（焦燥感）」、つまり、物事はどれほど速く進むべきかという社会全体の期待の高まりに苦しむことになるからだ。ひとたび「1時間に40通のメールに返信できて当然だ」と多くの人が信じるようになれば、あなたの本心はどうあれ、雇い主から雇用を継続してもらえるかどうかが、それを実行できるかどうかにかかってくるかもしれない。
現実のスピードを速めたいという、この増大する不快感をこれほど鮮明に示している例は、読書という体験に起きていること以上に他にないだろう。ここ10年ほど、本を手に取るたびに、「落ち着きのなさ」や「集中力の欠如」と呼ばれる圧倒的な感情を報告する人が増えている。しかし、それは実際には一種の★(B)短気（焦燥感）、つまり「読むという行為が自分の望む以上に時間がかかる」という事実に対する強い嫌悪感として理解するのが最も適切である。「単語、文章、段落に集中するのがどんどん難しくなっている」と、オーディオブックサービス『LibriVox』の創設者であり、（少なくとも最近までは）生涯にわたる文学愛好家であったヒュー・マクガイアは嘆く。「章（チャプター）単位など★(E)言うまでもない。章にはたいてい、何ページにもわたって段落が続いているのだから」。彼は、かつては(う)以前は心地よかった、本を持ってベッドに入るという体験が、どのように変化してしまったかをこう説明する。「一文。二文。おそらく三文。それから……私はただ、何か別のものを少しだけ必要とした。心の奥底のむず痒さを鎮めるための何かを。たとえば、iPhoneでメールをさっとチェックしたり、お気に入りの著者の面白いツイートに対して返信を書いては消したり、ニューヨーカー誌の良質な記事へのリンクを見つけてクリックしたりすることだ……」
人々はもう「本を読む時間」がないとこぼすが、作家のティム・パークスが指摘したように、一日のうちに空いた30分を文字通り見つけられないということは(え)めったにない。彼らが本当に言いたいのは、少しの時間を見つけて読もうとしても、その作業に没頭するには自分たちが短気になりすぎている、ということなのだ。「単に邪魔が入るということではない。実際には、自ら進んで中断したがっているのだ」とパークスは書いている。それは私たちが忙しすぎたり、注意散漫になりすぎたりしているということではなく、読書とは主に「それ独自のスケジュール」に従って進む種類のアクティビティであるという真実を、私たちが受け入れたがらないということなのだ。読書という体験がその意味を失い始める前に、それを急がせることはほとんどできない。いわば、時間は自分たちの思うように展開すべきだという私たちの支配欲に、読書は屈しないのである。言い換えれば、私たちが認めたくないと思っている現実の多くの側面と同じように、何かを適切に読むということは、単に「それ相応の時間がかかる」ということなのである。
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3 空欄(あ )~(え )に入れるのに最も適切な語を次の中からそれぞれ1つ
選び、その記号を解答欄に書きなさい。ただし、同じ語が2つ以上の空欄に入る
ことはない。
イ formerly ロinstantaneously ハ rarely二slowly ホ unfortunately
(あ) 二 slowly 「Amazonのページ読み込みが1秒**遅く（slowly）**なれば、年間16億ドルの損失になる」という文脈です。
(い) ロ instantaneously 「60秒で温められるようになると、今度は0秒、つまり**即座に（instantaneously）**できるのが現実的に思えてくる」という対比です。
(う) イ formerly 「**以前は（formerly）**心地よかった、本を持ってベッドに入るという体験」が、今は集中できず変質してしまったことを表します。
(え) ハ rarely 「時間が全く見つけられないということはめったにない（rarely）。実際には、時間があっても読書に集中する忍耐力がないだけだ」という主張です。
4 空欄(A)に入れるものとして、次の語を最も適切な順に並べ替えたとき、
2番目と5番目に来る語の記号をそれぞれ解答欄に書きなさい。
1 done get
ホ things to
has
us
permitted
4 空欄(A)の答え
英文：Virtually every new technology, from the steam engine to mobile broadband*, (A) more quickly than before.
提示された単語（並べ替え候補）：
done
get
ホ things to
has
us
permitted
正しい順番：
has permitted us to get things done more quickly than before
2番目 → permitted
5番目 → done
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5 4つの空欄( B)には共通の1語が入る。それを次の中から1つ選び、その
記号を解答欄に書きなさい。
conflict depression ハ impatience insecurity ホ pressure
6 空欄(C)に入れるのに最も適切な英語1語を解答欄に書きなさい。
7 空欄(D )に入れるのに最も適切な語を次の中から1つ選び、その記号を解
答欄に書きなさい。
As Either Less ニ Nor ホ So
8 空欄( E)に入れるのに最も適切な語を次の中から1つ選び、その記号を解
答欄に書きなさい。
alone along
around ホ away altogether
