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千葉県公立高校入試問題2000年  
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次の文章は,高校生の真紀(Maki)が留学先のアメリカ(America)テキサス(Texas)州の学校で行なったスピーチです。 この文章を読んで,あとの(1)〜(4)の問いに答えなさい。

  I'm glad that I can talk to you about my life here in Texas. I can't believe that about three months have already passed since I came. Every day has been so exciting for me.
  I have always been interested in America. I began to study  English  when I was ten years old. Since then I have wanted to be able to  speak  English well.
  Soon after entering high school in Japan, (        )  So I studied very hard. At last my dream came true and I arrived in Texas. I have made so many friends through living and studying here in America.
  Last week one of my friends, Kate, invited me to dinner. Her parents went to Japan last year. She showed me some pictures they took to remember their trip.
   At dinner, Kate's mother asked me about Japanese cooking. She said, "I hear that tofu is very healthy, but (         ) Maki, could you tell me a few different ways to cook it?"  Putting tofu in miso soup was the only way I could think of.
  Later, Kate's father asked me about haiku. He said, "I hear that haiku was born in Japan. Would you tell me about Japanese haiku?" (        )
because I don't remember anything I learned about it .
  After dinner, we talked about our towns. Kate asked me the population of mine, but I couldn't answer that question, either.
  I was surprised to be asked questions like those. Before coming here, I read a lot of books about America, not Japan. My friends here want to know about Japan as much as I want to know about America. I never thought of that before. I now understand that it is important to learn about one's own country and to be able to talk about it.
(注)pass    過ぎる   enter  入る     come true  実現する     tofu   豆腐    healthy 健康的な      miso soup  みそ汁    haiku   俳句    be born  生まれる     population  人口         be surprised  驚く     one's own 自分自身の
(1) 本文の流れに合うように,(   )〜(   )の中に入れる最も適当なものを,次のそれぞれのア〜エのうちから一つずつ選び,その符号を書きなさい。
ア. I wanted to leave Texas.
イ. I wanted to learn how to cook tofu.
ウ. I hoped to stay in Japan.
エ. I hoped to go to America.
ア. I can find it, in a lot of shops.
イ. I am not interested in cooking it.
ウ. I don't know many ways to cook it.
エ. I have seen many famous tofu shops.
ア. I couldn't tell him about haiku.
イ. I taught him how to write it.
ウ. It was an easy question for me.
エ. It was not difficult to write haiku.
(2) 本文の内容に関する次の質問に英語で答えなさい。
  Who visited Japan last year?
(3) 本文中の下線部 that が具体的に指し示している内容は何か,日本語で書きなさい。
(4) 次の文章は,本文の内容を要約したものです。 (  )〜(   )の中に入れる最も適当な語を下のア〜シのうちからそれぞれ一つずつ選び,その符号を書きなさい。
 Maki (     ) to study Englib-h when she was ten years old. Maki came to Texas about three months (     ) and made many friends at school. Last week she was invited to dinner by her friend, Kate.  At dinner, Maki was asked some questions about Japanese cooking and about haiku. It was (     ) for her to answer them.  Kate said to her, "How (     ) people live in your town?"   Maki couldn't even answer that question.  Before coming to Texas, she didn't study (      ) about her own town or country. Now she thinks she needs to study more about Japan.
ア. Suddenly イ. oldest ウ. enough
エ. shows オ. wants カ. ago
キ. different ク. started ケ. difficult
コ. many サ. passed シ. does