埼玉医科大学英語2012年第2問
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- 問21. With the population growing by about 80 million each year, it's hard not to be alarmed. Right now on Earth, water tables are falling, soil is eroding, glaciers are melting, and fish stocks are vanishing. Close to a billion people ( 21 ) each day. Decades from now, there will likely be two billion more mouths to feed, mostly in poor countries. If they follow the path blazed by wealthy countries clearing forests, burning coal and oil, freely scattering fertilizers and pesticides ― what will happen then?
- (1) pass away
- (2) go hungry
- (3) come alive
- (4) grow up
- 問22. Frank Lloyd Wright spent more than ( 22 ) that revolutionized the art and architecture of the twentieth century. Many innovations in today's buildings are products of his imagination. In all he designed 1,141 works ― including houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges, museums and many other building types. Of that total, 532 resulted in completed works and 409 still stand.
- (1) 10 years building statues
- (2) 20 years designing ships
- (3) 50 years imagining planes
- (4) 70 years creating designs
- 問23. American scientists want another investigation of Mars. They want to map the planet's surface and land a spacecraft in a more promising location than before. They want to search for fossils, the ancient remains of life. ( 23 ), scientists believe that future missions might find records of it under the sand or in the ice. They were very disappointed in the failure of the Mars Observer mission and want to start a new mission. Other countries are interested in Mars, too. For example, Russia is also planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars in the near future.
- (1) If fossils were found on Mars
- (2) If life ever existed on Mars
- (3) With Mars having life
- (4) But for life on Mars
- 問24. Cross-country is a running sport that consists of at least five scoring runners per team that race against each other in courses that vary in difficulty. What makes cross-country ( 24 ) is that the courses can consist of open terrain, grass, mud, sand, and even hills. The length of a course varies in each school and/or university. For men, the courses can be anywhere from 4 miles to 7.5 miles, and for the women, the races are 125 miles to 3 miles.
- (1) different from any other running competition
- (2) difficult to run with other runners
- (3) hard to believe in any other competition
- (4) easy for us to race comfortably
- 問25. Born on September 9, 1890, Harland Sanders has been a farmer, a streetcar conductor, a soldier, a railroad fireman, a justice of the peace, an insurance salesman, a steamboat operator and a service station owner. He was also a great cook. Soon people were coming to his service station in Corbin, Kentucky ― ( 25 ) he served on his own dining room table. Business was so brisk that Sanders opened a 142-seat Sanders Cafe, to which he soon added a hotel. The best-selling dish was the chicken fried in a batter that included a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices. This was the beginning of the fast food we now call Kentucky Fried Chicken.
- (1) in which they enjoyed having coffee
- (2) not for gasoline but for the food
- (3) where he provided the fried chicken
- (4) not only gasoline but also the fast food