著作権の切れた童話「大きな森の小さな家」（原題 Little HOUSE In the Big WOODS.）に、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を組込んでみました。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。レベル的には英検準２級（９割正解レベル）〜準１級、TOEIC450〜750、大学入試偏差値ですと５５〜７０位の学習者向きです。
英英辞典を使いながら演習すると学習効率が高まります。子ども向き読み物が楽に読めて英英辞典が使いこなせるようになれば、TOEIC900点そして英検１級レベル到達はそれほど難しくはありません。
童話や子どもニュースが読めずに大人ニュースに取り組むようなことをしてしまうと、英語学習は困難を極めるものの、ネイティブが書いたやさしい英文をたくさん読めば効率の良い「省エネ英語学習」が可能です。ただ童話といえども原書ですので、読み始めるには英検準２級過去問でコンスタントに９割正解する位の基礎力は不可欠です。
Chapter 1.
Little HOUSE In the Big WOODS.
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray ��(of / house / logs / made).
The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was ��(something : anything : nothing : everything) but woods. There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.
Wolves lived in the Big Woods, and bears, and huge wild cats. Muskrats and mink and otter lived by the streams. Foxes had dens in the hills and deer ��**(perceived : roamed : worshipped : yielded) everywhere.
To the east of the little log house, and to the west, there were miles upon miles of trees, and only a few little log houses ��**(interfared : forecasted : encountered : scattered) far apart in the edge of the Big Woods.
So far as the little girl could see, there was only the one little house ��(which : where : when : what) she lived with her Father and Mother, her sister Mary and baby sister Carrie. A wagon track ran before the house, turning and twisting out of ��*(rule : sight : race : deal)in the woods where the wild animals lived, but the little girl did not know where it went, nor ��(might / at / what / be) the end of it.
The little girl was named Laura and she called her father, Pa, and her mother, Ma. In those days and in that place, children did not say Father and Mother, nor Mamma and Papa, as they do now.
At night, when Laura lay awake in the trundle bed, she listened and could not hear anything at all but the sound of the trees ��**(guessing : whispering : overcoming : absorbing) together. Sometimes, far away in the night, a wolf howled. Then he came nearer, and howled again.
It was a scary sound. Laura knew that wolves would eat little girls. But she was safe inside the ��**(generous : silly : curious : solid) log walls. Her father's gun hung over the door and good old Jack, the brindle bulldog, lay on ��*(condition : guard : point : shape)before it. Her father would say,
"Go to sleep, Laura. Jack won't let the wolves in." So Laura snuggled under the covers of the trundle bed, close beside Mary, and went to sleep.
One night her father ��(her / picked / out / up ) of bed and carried her to the window so that she might see the wolves. There were two of them sitting in front of the house. They looked like shaggy dogs. They pointed their noses at the big, bright moon, and howled.
Jack paced up and down before the door, growling. The hair stood ��(his / up / back / along) and he showed his sharp, fierce teeth to the wolves. They howled, but they could not get in.
The house was a comfortable house. Upstairs there was a large attic, ��*(similar : pleasant : certain : public) to play in when the rain drummed on the roof. Downstairs was the small bedroom, and the big room. The bedroom had a ��(closed / with / window / that) a wooden shutter. The big room had two windows with glass in the panes, and it had two doors, a front door and a back door.
All around the house was a crooked rail fence, to ��*(protect : keep : offer : save) the bears and the deer away.
In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Every morning as soon as she was ��*(native : correct : awake : regular) Laura ran to look out of the window, and one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch.
Pa had shot the deer the day before and Laura had been asleep when he ��(at / them / home / brought) night and hung them high in the trees so the wolves could not get the meat.
That day Pa and Ma and Laura and Mary had fresh venison for dinner. It was so good that Laura wished they could eat it all. But most of the meat must be salted and smoked and packed away ��(be / in / to / eaten) the winter.
For winter was coming. The days were shorter, and frost crawled up the window panes at night. Soon the snow would come. Then the log house would be almost ��**(exploded : teased : launched : buried) in snowdrifts, and the lake and the streams would freeze. In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to ��*(create : shoot : form : judge) for meat.
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英英辞典を使いながら演習すると学習効率が高まります。子ども向き読み物が楽に読めて英英辞典が使いこなせるようになれば、TOEIC900点そして英検１級レベル到達はそれほど難しくはありません。
童話や子どもニュースが読めずに大人ニュースに取り組むようなことをしてしまうと、英語学習は困難を極めるものの、ネイティブが書いたやさしい英文をたくさん読めば効率の良い「省エネ英語学習」が可能です。ただ童話といえども原書ですので、読み始めるには英検準２級過去問でコンスタントに９割正解する位の基礎力は不可欠です。
Chapter 1.
Little HOUSE In the Big WOODS.
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray ��(of / house / logs / made).
The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was ��(something : anything : nothing : everything) but woods. There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.
Wolves lived in the Big Woods, and bears, and huge wild cats. Muskrats and mink and otter lived by the streams. Foxes had dens in the hills and deer ��**(perceived : roamed : worshipped : yielded) everywhere.
To the east of the little log house, and to the west, there were miles upon miles of trees, and only a few little log houses ��**(interfared : forecasted : encountered : scattered) far apart in the edge of the Big Woods.
So far as the little girl could see, there was only the one little house ��(which : where : when : what) she lived with her Father and Mother, her sister Mary and baby sister Carrie. A wagon track ran before the house, turning and twisting out of ��*(rule : sight : race : deal)in the woods where the wild animals lived, but the little girl did not know where it went, nor ��(might / at / what / be) the end of it.
The little girl was named Laura and she called her father, Pa, and her mother, Ma. In those days and in that place, children did not say Father and Mother, nor Mamma and Papa, as they do now.
At night, when Laura lay awake in the trundle bed, she listened and could not hear anything at all but the sound of the trees ��**(guessing : whispering : overcoming : absorbing) together. Sometimes, far away in the night, a wolf howled. Then he came nearer, and howled again.
It was a scary sound. Laura knew that wolves would eat little girls. But she was safe inside the ��**(generous : silly : curious : solid) log walls. Her father's gun hung over the door and good old Jack, the brindle bulldog, lay on ��*(condition : guard : point : shape)before it. Her father would say,
"Go to sleep, Laura. Jack won't let the wolves in." So Laura snuggled under the covers of the trundle bed, close beside Mary, and went to sleep.
One night her father ��(her / picked / out / up ) of bed and carried her to the window so that she might see the wolves. There were two of them sitting in front of the house. They looked like shaggy dogs. They pointed their noses at the big, bright moon, and howled.
Jack paced up and down before the door, growling. The hair stood ��(his / up / back / along) and he showed his sharp, fierce teeth to the wolves. They howled, but they could not get in.
The house was a comfortable house. Upstairs there was a large attic, ��*(similar : pleasant : certain : public) to play in when the rain drummed on the roof. Downstairs was the small bedroom, and the big room. The bedroom had a ��(closed / with / window / that) a wooden shutter. The big room had two windows with glass in the panes, and it had two doors, a front door and a back door.
All around the house was a crooked rail fence, to ��*(protect : keep : offer : save) the bears and the deer away.
In the yard in front of the house were two beautiful big oak trees. Every morning as soon as she was ��*(native : correct : awake : regular) Laura ran to look out of the window, and one morning she saw in each of the big trees a dead deer hanging from a branch.
Pa had shot the deer the day before and Laura had been asleep when he ��(at / them / home / brought) night and hung them high in the trees so the wolves could not get the meat.
That day Pa and Ma and Laura and Mary had fresh venison for dinner. It was so good that Laura wished they could eat it all. But most of the meat must be salted and smoked and packed away ��(be / in / to / eaten) the winter.
For winter was coming. The days were shorter, and frost crawled up the window panes at night. Soon the snow would come. Then the log house would be almost ��**(exploded : teased : launched : buried) in snowdrifts, and the lake and the streams would freeze. In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to ��*(create : shoot : form : judge) for meat.
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