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。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。
※(1)の解答��(house made of logs)��(nothing)��(roamed) ��(scattered)��(where) ��(sight)��(what might be at)��(whispering) ��(solid)��(guard)��(picked her up out)��(up along his back)��(pleasant)��(window that closed with)��(keep)��(awake) ��(brought them home at)��(to be eaten in)��(buried)��(shoot)
(2)
The bears would be hidden away in their dens where they slept soundly all winter long. The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. The deer and the rabbits would be shy and ��**(swift : grave : rural : innocent). Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and ��*(loud : nervous : secret : thin), not fat and plump as deer are in the fall.
Pa might hunt alone all day in the bitter cold, in the Big Woods covered with snow, and come home at ��(for / night / nothing / with) Ma and Mary and Laura to eat.
So as much food as possible must be ��**(indicated : stored : vanished : estimated) away in the little house before winter came.
Pa skinned the deer carefully and salted and ��*(recognized : performed : stretched : completed) the hides, for he would make soft leather of them. Then he cut up the meat, and sprinkled salt over the pieces as he laid them on a board.
Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk of a big hollow tree. Pa had ��(nails / as / driven / inside) far as he could reach from each end. Then he stood it up, put a little roof over the top, and cut a little door on one side near the bottom. On the piece that he cut out he fastened leather hinges; then he fitted it into place, and that was the little door, with the bark still on it.
After the deer meat had been salted several days, Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Laura ��(him / watched / this / do), and then she watched him hang the meat on the nails in the hollow log.
He reached up through the little door and hung meat on the nails, as far up as he could reach. Then he put a ��*(insect : ladder : field : fuel) against the log, climbed up to the top, moved the roof to one side, and reached down ��(meat / to / inside / hang) on those nails.
Then Pa put the roof back again, climbed down the ladder, and said to Laura:
"Run over to the chopping block and ��**(disturb : fetch : capture : imitate) me some of those green hickory chips−new, clean, white ones."
So Laura ran to the block where Pa chopped wood, and ��*(lifted : filled : supplied : avoided) her apron with the fresh, sweet-smelling chips.
Just inside the little door in the hollow log Pa built a fire of tiny bits of bark and moss, and he laid some of the ��(very / it / on / chips) carefully.
Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the ��(with / hollow / thick / log), choking smoke. Pa shut the door, and a little smoke squeezed through the crack around it and a little ��(out / through / smoke / came) the roof, but most of it was shut in with the meat.
"There's nothing better than good hickory smoke," Pa said. "That will make good venison that will keep anywhere, in any weather."
Then he took his gun, and slinging his ax on his shoulder he went away to the clearing to cut down some more trees.
Laura and Ma watched the fire for several days. ��(While : Although : Because : When) smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and Ma would put them on the fire under the meat. All the time there was a little ��(in / smell / smoke / of ) the yard, and when the door was opened a thick, smoky, meaty smell came out.
At last Pa said the venison had smoked long enough. Then they let the fire go out, and Pa took all the strips and pieces of meat out of the hollow tree. Ma wrapped each piece ��**(occasionally : neatly : merely : currently) in paper and hung them in the attic where they would keep safe and dry.
One morning Pa went away before daylight with the horses and wagon, and that night ��(with / he / home / came) a wagonload of fish. The big wagon box was piled full, and some of the fish were as big as Laura. Pa had gone to Lake Pepin and caught them all with a net.
Ma cut large slices of flaky white fish, without one bone, for Laura and Mary. They all feasted on the good, fresh fish. All they did not eat fresh ��(down / was / in / salted) barrels for the winter.
Pa owned a pig. It ran wild in the Big Woods, living on acorns and nuts and roots. Now he caught it and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten. He would butcher it as soon as the ��*(custom : weather : company : attitude) was cold enough to keep the pork frozen.
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※(1)の解答��(house made of logs)��(nothing)��(roamed) ��(scattered)��(where) ��(sight)��(what might be at)��(whispering) ��(solid)��(guard)��(picked her up out)��(up along his back)��(pleasant)��(window that closed with)��(keep)��(awake) ��(brought them home at)��(to be eaten in)��(buried)��(shoot)
(2)
The bears would be hidden away in their dens where they slept soundly all winter long. The squirrels would be curled in their nests in hollow trees, with their furry tails wrapped snugly around their noses. The deer and the rabbits would be shy and ��**(swift : grave : rural : innocent). Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and ��*(loud : nervous : secret : thin), not fat and plump as deer are in the fall.
Pa might hunt alone all day in the bitter cold, in the Big Woods covered with snow, and come home at ��(for / night / nothing / with) Ma and Mary and Laura to eat.
So as much food as possible must be ��**(indicated : stored : vanished : estimated) away in the little house before winter came.
Pa skinned the deer carefully and salted and ��*(recognized : performed : stretched : completed) the hides, for he would make soft leather of them. Then he cut up the meat, and sprinkled salt over the pieces as he laid them on a board.
Standing on end in the yard was a tall length cut from the trunk of a big hollow tree. Pa had ��(nails / as / driven / inside) far as he could reach from each end. Then he stood it up, put a little roof over the top, and cut a little door on one side near the bottom. On the piece that he cut out he fastened leather hinges; then he fitted it into place, and that was the little door, with the bark still on it.
After the deer meat had been salted several days, Pa cut a hole near the end of each piece and put a string through it. Laura ��(him / watched / this / do), and then she watched him hang the meat on the nails in the hollow log.
He reached up through the little door and hung meat on the nails, as far up as he could reach. Then he put a ��*(insect : ladder : field : fuel) against the log, climbed up to the top, moved the roof to one side, and reached down ��(meat / to / inside / hang) on those nails.
Then Pa put the roof back again, climbed down the ladder, and said to Laura:
"Run over to the chopping block and ��**(disturb : fetch : capture : imitate) me some of those green hickory chips−new, clean, white ones."
So Laura ran to the block where Pa chopped wood, and ��*(lifted : filled : supplied : avoided) her apron with the fresh, sweet-smelling chips.
Just inside the little door in the hollow log Pa built a fire of tiny bits of bark and moss, and he laid some of the ��(very / it / on / chips) carefully.
Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the ��(with / hollow / thick / log), choking smoke. Pa shut the door, and a little smoke squeezed through the crack around it and a little ��(out / through / smoke / came) the roof, but most of it was shut in with the meat.
"There's nothing better than good hickory smoke," Pa said. "That will make good venison that will keep anywhere, in any weather."
Then he took his gun, and slinging his ax on his shoulder he went away to the clearing to cut down some more trees.
Laura and Ma watched the fire for several days. ��(While : Although : Because : When) smoke stopped coming through the cracks, Laura would bring more hickory chips and Ma would put them on the fire under the meat. All the time there was a little ��(in / smell / smoke / of ) the yard, and when the door was opened a thick, smoky, meaty smell came out.
At last Pa said the venison had smoked long enough. Then they let the fire go out, and Pa took all the strips and pieces of meat out of the hollow tree. Ma wrapped each piece ��**(occasionally : neatly : merely : currently) in paper and hung them in the attic where they would keep safe and dry.
One morning Pa went away before daylight with the horses and wagon, and that night ��(with / he / home / came) a wagonload of fish. The big wagon box was piled full, and some of the fish were as big as Laura. Pa had gone to Lake Pepin and caught them all with a net.
Ma cut large slices of flaky white fish, without one bone, for Laura and Mary. They all feasted on the good, fresh fish. All they did not eat fresh ��(down / was / in / salted) barrels for the winter.
Pa owned a pig. It ran wild in the Big Woods, living on acorns and nuts and roots. Now he caught it and put it in a pen made of logs, to fatten. He would butcher it as soon as the ��*(custom : weather : company : attitude) was cold enough to keep the pork frozen.
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