英検1級2009年度2回目リーディング問題やっと終わった
どうもっす。
昨日，モトカノの家に，お手製コーヒーゼリーをお届けにいったら，
ご飯を奢ってもらった上，フランスパンやらルッコラやらをお土産にもらい，
なんだかとても得した気分になったうえ，間違いなく得をしているという，
と同時に，未だにご飯を奢ってもらっている男の人って・・・，と
いろんな考えが錯綜している感じの whitypig です。
リーディング問題おわった。
おもしろかったというのが正直な感想。
- 1.語彙 18/25
- 試験ではないので，わからないやつは勘で解答しなかったからといういいわけ。
- ほんとは，farce 覚えてたよ。笑劇とかで。でもでも。
- 2.穴埋め 5/6
- 3.読解 9/10
時間は計ってない。やはり語彙力は落ちているなぁと実感。
だってあの頃やった単語をことごとく忘れているからね。
問題文自体は，やはり英検と申しましょうか，大変おもしろかったです。
Wikipedia などの話題がでてくるところとか，N極とS極がひっくり返るとか，
リスニングの方にについても，Web検索がでてくるあたりとか，
タイムリーな気がします。
ちなみに放課後電磁波クラブは大好きでしたよっと。
というわけで，リーディング問題の単語とか。
単語とか
| 単語 | 意味 | 例文 |
|---|---|---|
| meddle | 干渉する，お節介を焼く | I don't think we should meddle in their affairs. It's none of our business. |
| barrage | ダム，弾幕，集中砲撃，連発，続出 | After suddenly announcing his retirement yesterday, the CEO faced a barrage of questions from reporters concerning his health and future plans. |
| glitch | 電圧の一時的な以上，突発事故，トラブル | The project went smoothly through the design and testing phases, but then it hit a glitch in production that caused a two-week delay in the product's release. |
| inculcate | 教え込む，説き聞かせる，instill, 植え付ける | ``In order to raise our children to be honest and hard-working citizens,'' said the presidential candidate, ``we must inculcate them with the high moral standards that have made our nation strong.'' |
| farce | 笑劇，宴，茶番 | I agree. It was a total farce. The client was quite upset about it. |
| mayhem | 大混乱，chaos, 傷害行為，破壊行為 | The woman had no control over her six children. Her home was absolute mayhem, with the kids constantly fighting, screaming, and crying. |
| stamp out | 根絶する，鎮圧する，踏み消す | The new mayor promised to stamp out corruption, but the task proved harder than he had anticipated. |
| rifled through | くまなく探す | The burglar rifled through my desk looking for valuables, but only found some small change and a few old documents. |
| savvy | 知っている，理解している，有能な | It is fair to say that tech-savvy citizens of the industrialized world can no longer do without them. |
| idiosyncratic | 特異な，その人特有な | Machines do not handle human emotions or our idiosyncratic programming demands well. |
| intrusive | 押し入る，侵入的な，押しつけがましい | Donald Norman, author of The Design of Future Things, expects future generations of those high-tech tools to become considerably less intrusive. |
| mindful | 心配して，注意して，心を配って | We may also be too preoccupied with using devices when we should be more mindful of the here and now. |
| Stung | 刺激する，駆り立てる，針で刺す | Stung by the criticism, aid agencies have been galvanized into action. |
| galvanized | 電気を通す，衝撃を与える，刺激して〜させる | |
| handouts | 施し物，恵み物，補助金，配付資料 | Such handouts will probably increase as countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States put new program in place, but they work only where access to goods still exists after a disaster. |
| patterned | 〜の方にならって作る | These patterned swords were forged between 900 and 1750. |
| polymer | 重合体，ポリマー | Current technology used for creating nanotubes, which are used in products like high-tech polymer fibers and lightweight bicycles, was unavailable to ancient sword makers. |
| etch | エッチングする，表面に刻む | Furthermore, the team thinks that when the Damascus swordsmiths used acid to etch decorative surface patterns on the blades, the acid-resistant nanotubes remained, creating an extremely sharpe edge. |
| malleability | 適応性，融通性 | Verhoeven points out that earlier chemical analysis and mechanical testing of Damascus swords found found that both their hardness and malleability did not compare favorably to European swords dating from the 1700s. |
| stands by | 〜を支持する，主張する | Paufler, though, stands by his research. |
| wellspring | 水源，源泉 | Wikipedia and similar ``open-source'' websites have become the premier wellspring of common knowledge for most people in the industrialized world. |
| hailed | 歓迎する，迎える | The availability of content, free of charge, to anyone with an Internet connection has led to open-source sites being hailed as the most revolutionary means of disseminating knowledge since the invention of the printing press. |
| venerable | 尊敬すべき，立派な，由緒ある | Content is generated not by venerable scholars but by anonymous authors, whose bona fides are unknown. |
| bona fides | 信義誠実，誠意，正当性の証明 | |
| laureates | 受賞者，桂冠詩人 | The 13th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for instance, carried an entry on ``space-time'' authored by none other than Albert Einstein, and the contributions of over 100 other Nobel laureates have further boosted its credentials. |
| crow over | 勝ち誇る | Furthermore, a study in the journal Nature found few differences in accuracy between seleceted science articles in Britannica and Wikipedia, giving the young upstart license to crow over its newfound respectability. |
| fray | けんか，口論，論争 | Britannica entered the fray with a damning responce of its own. |
| laden | 荷を積んだ，どっさり積み込んだ | ``The study was so poorly carried out and its findings so error-laden that it was completely without merit.'' |
| bickering | 口論 | Such bickering aside, if continuously changing user-generated content can comete with expert analysis, is the old encyclopedic model doomed? |
| albeit | 〜にもかかわらず，〜であろうとも | It is clear that traditional encyclopedias have, albeit grudgingly, accepted the tough new parameters that the success of Wikipedia has presented. |
| grudgingly | いやいやながら，しぶしぶ | |
| arbiters | 採決者 | Consumers will be the final arbiters. |
| consign | 渡す，預ける，委託する，置く，入れる | Before we consign all those PhDs to the wastebasket, however, it may be worthwhile to note that ``Wikipedia seeks not truth but consensus, and like an interminable political meeting, the end result will be dominated by the loudest and most persistent voices.'' |
| wastebasket | くず入れ | |
| interminable | 長々と続く，opp.terminable | |
| undermining | 傷つけること，だめにすること | Other critics argue that Wikipedia represents an undermining of expert authority by the anonymous majority. |
| aces up sleeve | 袖に隠しているエースのカード，奥の手 | In the final analysis, accuracy, transparency, and genuine scholarship remain the aces up Britannica's sleeve. |
| a cut above | 〜より1枚上，上位 | Even in this Internet age, for some at least, this puts it a cut above the competition. |
| magnetosphere | 地磁気圏 | The magnetosphere --- the magnetc field in space that surrounds the Earth --- has a profound effect on life on our planet. |
| bombard | 〜を砲撃する，責め立てる，粒子などを衝突させる | For one thing, it shelters us from solar wind, the harmful stream of protons and electrons from the Sun that bombard the planet at supersonic speed. |
| supersonic | 超音速の | |
| intricate | 入り組んだ，錯綜した，複雑な | The intricate and constant movement of the outer core produce a so-called dynamo effect, which generates an electrical current and creates the magnetosphere. |
| dynamo | 発電機 | |
| archaeomagnetic | 考古地磁気年代測定の | Gubbins combined this data with archaeomagnetic evidence found in ceramics at human settlements from the same period. |
| ceramics | 陶磁器，陶芸品 | |
| thermoremanence | 残磁気 | When clay is heated to a very high temperature and then cooled, magnetically affected elements within the clay become ``locked'' in place, leaving so-called thermoremanence --- essentially a magnetic ``signature'' --- that provides clues about the Earth's magnetic field. |
| flip | 急に動くこと，裏返し，裏返す，ピンとはじく | Geological findings from ancient lava suggest the poles have reversed approximately every 250,000 years ago, although the last flip occurred 780,000 years ago. |
| cusp | 尖端，移行期 | The gradual weakening of the Earth's magnetosphere has generated a great deal of interest, but are we really on the cusp of a reversal? |
| magnetism | 磁気，磁性 | While instrumentation and equipment sensitive to the magnetosphere would almost certainly be affected, animals that navigate using magnetism, such as some birds, turtles, and whales, would probably adjust to any flux. |
| haywire | 針金，混乱した，狂った | Even though compasses may go haywire for a while, the consensus is that the sky will not fall if north becomes south. |
穴埋め
| 意味 | 問題文 |
|---|---|
| 干渉する，お節介を焼く | I don't think we should ( ) in their affairs. It's none of our business. |
| ダム，弾幕，集中砲撃，連発，続出 | After suddenly announcing his retirement yesterday, the CEO faced a ( ) of questions from reporters concerning his health and future plans. |
| 電圧の一時的な以上，突発事故，トラブル | The project went smoothly through the design and testing phases, but then it hit a ( ) in production that caused a two-week delay in the product's release. |
| 教え込む，説き聞かせる，instill, 植え付ける | ``In order to raise our children to be honest and hard-working citizens,'' said the presidential candidate, ``we must ( ) them with the high moral standards that have made our nation strong.'' |
| 笑劇，宴，茶番 | I agree. It was a total ( ). The client was quite upset about it. |
| 大混乱，chaos, 傷害行為，破壊行為 | The woman had no control over her six children. Her home was absolute ( ), with the kids constantly fighting, screaming, and crying. |
| 根絶する，鎮圧する，踏み消す | The new mayor promised to ( ) ( ) corruption, but the task proved harder than he had anticipated. |
| くまなく探す | The burglar ( ) ( ) my desk looking for valuables, but only found some small change and a few old documents. |
| 知っている，理解している，有能な | It is fair to say that tech-( ) citizens of the industrialized world can no longer do without them. |
| 特異な，その人特有な | Machines do not handle human emotions or our ( ) programming demands well. |
| 押し入る，侵入的な，押しつけがましい | Donald Norman, author of The Design of Future Things, expects future generations of those high-tech tools to become considerably less ( ). |
| 心配して，注意して，心を配って | We may also be too preoccupied with using devices when we should be more ( ) of the here and now. |
| 刺激する，駆り立てる，針で刺す | ( ) by the criticism, aid agencies have been ( ) into action. |
| 電気を通す，衝撃を与える，刺激して〜させる | |
| 施し物，恵み物，補助金，配付資料 | Such ( ) will probably increase as countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States put new program in place, but they work only where access to goods still exists after a disaster. |
| 〜の方にならって作る | These ( ) swords were forged between 900 and 1750. |
| 重合体，ポリマー | Current technology used for creating nanotubes, which are used in products like high-tech ( ) fibers and lightweight bicycles, was unavailable to ancient sword makers. |
| エッチングする，表面に刻む | Furthermore, the team thinks that when the Damascus swordsmiths used acid to ( ) decorative surface patterns on the blades, the acid-resistant nanotubes remained, creating an extremely sharpe edge. |
| 適応性，融通性 | Verhoeven points out that earlier chemical analysis and mechanical testing of Damascus swords found found that both their hardness and ( ) did not compare favorably to European swords dating from the 1700s. |
| 〜を支持する，主張する | Paufler, though, ( ) ( ) his research. |
| 水源，源泉 | Wikipedia and similar ``open-source'' websites have become the premier ( ) of common knowledge for most people in the industrialized world. |
| 歓迎する，迎える | The availability of content, free of charge, to anyone with an Internet connection has led to open-source sites being ( ) as the most revolutionary means of disseminating knowledge since the invention of the printing press. |
| 尊敬すべき，立派な，由緒ある | Content is generated not by ( ) scholars but by anonymous authors, whose ( ) ( ) are unknown. |
| 信義誠実，誠意，正当性の証明 | |
| 受賞者，桂冠詩人 | The 13th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for instance, carried an entry on ``space-time'' authored by none other than Albert Einstein, and the contributions of over 100 other Nobel ( ) have further boosted its credentials. |
| 勝ち誇る | Furthermore, a study in the journal Nature found few differences in accuracy between seleceted science articles in Britannica and Wikipedia, giving the young upstart license to ( ) ( ) its newfound respectability. |
| けんか，口論，論争 | Britannica entered the ( ) with a damning responce of its own. |
| 荷を積んだ，どっさり積み込んだ | ``The study was so poorly carried out and its findings so error-( ) that it was completely without merit.'' |
| 口論 | Such ( ) aside, if continuously changing user-generated content can comete with expert analysis, is the old encyclopedic model doomed? |
| 〜にもかかわらず，〜であろうとも | It is clear that traditional encyclopedias have, ( ) ( ), accepted the tough new parameters that the success of Wikipedia has presented. |
| いやいやながら，しぶしぶ | |
| 採決者 | Consumers will be the final ( ). |
| 渡す，預ける，委託する，置く，入れる | Before we ( ) all those PhDs to the ( ), however, it may be worthwhile to note that ``Wikipedia seeks not truth but consensus, and like an ( ) political meeting, the end result will be dominated by the loudest and most persistent voices.'' |
| くず入れ | |
| 長々と続く，opp.terminable | |
| 傷つけること，だめにすること | Other critics argue that Wikipedia represents an ( ) of expert authority by the anonymous majority. |
| 袖に隠しているエースのカード，奥の手 | In the final analysis, accuracy, transparency, and genuine scholarship remain the ( ) ( ) Britannica's ( ). |
| 〜より1枚上，上位 | Even in this Internet age, for some at least, this puts it ( ) ( ) ( ) the competition. |
| 地磁気圏 | The ( ) --- the magnetc field in space that surrounds the Earth --- has a profound effect on life on our planet. |
| 〜を砲撃する，責め立てる，粒子などを衝突させる | For one thing, it shelters us from solar wind, the harmful stream of protons and electrons from the Sun that ( ) the planet at ( ) speed. |
| 超音速の | |
| 入り組んだ，錯綜した，複雑な | The ( ) and constant movement of the outer core produce a so-called ( ) effect, which generates an electrical current and creates the magnetosphere. |
| 発電機 | |
| 考古地磁気年代測定の | Gubbins combined this data with ( ) evidence found in ( ) at human settlements from the same period. |
| 陶磁器，陶芸品 | |
| 残磁気 | When clay is heated to a very high temperature and then cooled, magnetically affected elements within the clay become ``locked'' in place, leaving so-called ( ) --- essentially a magnetic ``signature'' --- that provides clues about the Earth's magnetic field. |
| 急に動くこと，裏返し，裏返す，ピンとはじく | Geological findings from ancient lava suggest the poles have reversed approximately every 250,000 years ago, although the last ( ) occurred 780,000 years ago. |
| 尖端，移行期 | The gradual weakening of the Earth's magnetosphere has generated a great deal of interest, are we really on the ( ) of a reversal? |
| 磁気，磁性 | While instrumentation and equipment sensitive to the magnetosphere would almost certainly be affected, animals that navigate using ( ), such as some birds, turtles, and whales, would probably adjust to any flux. |
| 針金，混乱した，狂った | Even though compasses may go ( ) for a while, the consensus is that the sky will not fall if north becomes south. |
