「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(11)

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　そこで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成してみました。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )には文脈にあったアルファベットを補充してください。スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題になっています。
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"We had better wait here," said Chee-Chee, "till the soldiers have ①(bed / gone / to / back). Then we can go on into the Land of the Monkeys."

So there they stayed the whole night through.

They often heard the King's men ②( )earching and talking in the jungle round about. But they were quite safe, for no one knew of that hiding-place but Chee-Chee—not ③( )ven the other monkeys.

At last, when daylight began to come through the thick leaves overhead, they heard Queen Ermintrude saying in a very tired voice that it was no use looking any more—that they ④(well / might / go / as) back and get some sleep.

As soon as the soldiers had all gone home, Chee-Chee brought the Doctor and his animals out of the hiding-place and they ⑤( )et off for the Land of the Monkeys.

It was a long, long way; and they often got very tired—especially Gub-Gub. But when he cried they gave ⑥(of / out / milk / him) the cocoanuts which he was very fond of.

They always had plenty to eat and drink; because Chee-Chee and Polynesia knew all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables that grow in the jungle, and ⑦(to / where / them / find )—like dates and figs and ground-nuts and ginger and yams. They used to make their lemonade out of the juice of wild oranges, sweetened with honey which they got from the bees' nests in hollow trees. No matter ⑧( )hat it was they asked for, Chee-Chee and Polynesia always seemed to be able to get it for them—or something like it. They even got the Doctor some tobacco one day, when he had ⑨(he / finished / had / what) brought with him and wanted to smoke.

At night they slept in tents made of palm-leaves, on thick, soft beds of dried grass. And after a while they ⑩(to / got / walking / used) such a lot and did not get so tired and enjoyed the life of travel very much.

But they were always glad when the night came and they stopped for their resting-time. Then the Doctor ⑪( )sed to make a little fire of sticks; and after they had had their supper, they would sit round it in a ring, listening to Polynesia singing songs about the sea, or to Chee-Chee telling stories of the jungle.

And many of the tales that Chee-Chee told were very interesting. Because although the monkeys had no history-books of their ⑫( )wn before Doctor Dolittle came to write them for them, they remember everything that happens by telling stories to their children. And Chee-Chee spoke of many things his grandmother had told him—tales of long, long, long ago, before Noah and the Flood—of the days when men dressed in bear-skins and lived in holes in the rock and ate their mutton ⑬( )aw, because they did not know what cooking was—having never seen a fire. And he told them of the Great Mammoths and Lizards, as long as a train, that ⑭( )andered over the mountains in those times, nibbling from the tree-tops. And often they got so interested listening, that when he had finished they found their fire had gone right out; and they had to scurry round ⑮(sticks / more / get / to ) and build a new one.

Now when the King's army had gone back and told the King that they couldn't find the Doctor, the King ⑯( )ent them out again and told them they must stay in the jungle till they caught him. So all this time, while the Doctor and his animals were going along towards the Land of the Monkeys, ⑰(safe / thinking / quite / themselves), they were still being followed by the King's men. If Chee-Chee had known this, he would most likely have hidden them again. But he didn't know it.

One day Chee-Chee climbed up a high rock and looked out over the tree-tops. And when he came ⑱(said / down / they / he) were now quite close to the Land of the Monkeys and would soon be there.

And that same evening, sure enough, they saw Chee-Chee's cousin and a lot of other monkeys, who had not yet got sick, sitting in the trees by the edge of a swamp, looking and waiting for them. And when they saw the famous doctor really come, these monkeys made a ⑲( )remendous noise, cheering and waving leaves and swinging out of the ⑳(him / greet / to / branches).

※(11)の解答①(gone back to bed)②searching③even④(might as well go)⑤set⑥(him milk out of)⑦(where to find them)⑧what⑨(finished what he had)⑩(got used to walking)⑪used⑫own⑬raw⑭wandered⑮(to get more sticks)⑯sent⑰(thinking themselves quite safe)⑱(down he said they)⑲tremendous⑳(branches to greet him)

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(12)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )には文脈にあったアルファベットを補充してください。スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題になっています。

(12)
They wanted to carry his bag and his trunk and everything he had—and one of the bigger ones even carried Gub-Gub who had ①( )ot tired again. Then two of them rushed on in front to tell the sick monkeys that the great doctor had come at last.

But the King's men, who were still following, had heard the noise of the monkeys cheering; and they at last knew ②(Doctor / where / was / the ), and hastened on to catch him.

The big monkey carrying Gub-Gub was coming along behind slowly, and he saw the Captain of the army sneaking through the trees. So he ③( )urried after the Doctor and told him to run.

Then they all ran harder than they had ever run in their lives; and the King's men, coming after them, began to run too; and the Captain ran hardest of all.

Then the Doctor tripped over his medicine-bag and ④( )ell down in the mud, and the Captain thought he would surely ⑤( )atch him this time.

But the Captain had very long ears—though his hair was very short. And as he sprang forward ⑥(of / to / hold / take) the Doctor, one of his ears caught fast in a tree; and the rest of the army had to stop and help him.

By this time the Doctor had picked himself up, and on they went again, running and running. And Chee-Chee shouted,

"It's all right! We haven't far to go now!"

But before they could get into the Land of the Monkeys, they came to a steep cliff with a river flowing ⑦( )elow. This was the end of the Kingdom of Jolliginki; and the Land of the Monkeys was on the other side—across the river.

And Jip, the dog, looked down over the edge of the steep, steep cliff and said,

"Golly! How are we ever ⑧(across / get / to / going)?"

"Oh, dear!" said Gub-Gub. "The King's men are quite close now—Look at them! I am ⑨( )fraid we are going to be taken back to prison again." And he began to weep.

But the big monkey who was carrying the pig dropped him on the ground and cried out to the other monkeys.

"Boys—a bridge! Quick!—Make a bridge! We've only a minute to do it. They've got the Captain loose, and he's coming ⑩(deer / on / a / like ). Get lively! A bridge! A bridge!"

The Doctor began to ⑪( )( )nder what they were going to make a bridge out of, and he ⑫( )azed around to see if they had any boards hidden any place.

But when he looked back at the cliff, there, hanging across the river, was a bridge all ready for him—made of living monkeys! For while his back was turned, the monkeys—quick as a flash—had made themselves into a bridge, ⑬(holding / just / hands / by) and feet.

And the big one shouted to the Doctor, "Walk over! Walk over—all of you—hurry!"

Gub-Gub was a bit ⑭( )cared, walking on such a narrow bridge at that dizzy ⑮( )eight above the river. But he got over all right; and so did all of them.

John Dolittle was ⑯(last / the / cross / to ). And just as he was getting to the other side, the King's men ⑰(up / came / to / rushing) the edge of the cliff.

Then they shook their fists and ⑱( )elled with rage. For they saw they were too late. The Doctor and all his animals were safe in the Land of the Monkeys and the bridge was ⑲( )ulled across to the other side.

Then Chee-Chee turned to the Doctor and said,

"Many great explorers and gray-bearded naturalists have lain long weeks hidden in the jungle waiting to see the monkeys do that ⑳( )rick. But we never let a white man get a glimpse of it before. You are the first to see the famous 'Bridge of Apes.'"

And the Doctor felt very pleased.

※(12)の解答①got②(where the Doctor was)③hurried④fell⑤catch⑥(to take hold of)⑦below⑧(going to get across)⑨afraid⑩(on like a deer)⑪wonder⑫gazed⑬(just by holding hands)⑭scared, ⑮height⑯(the last to cross)⑰(came rushing up to)⑱yelled⑲pulled ⑳trick

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(13)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )には文脈にあったアルファベットを補充してください。スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題になっています。

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THE EIGHTH CHAPTER
THE LEADER OF THE LIONS
JOHN DOLITTLE now became ①( )readfully, awfully busy. He found hundreds and thousands of monkeys sick—gorillas, orangoutangs, chimpanzees, dog-faced baboons, marmosettes, gray monkeys, red ones—all kinds. And many had died.

The first thing he did was to ②( )eparate the sick ones from the well ones. Then he got Chee-Chee and his cousin to build him a little house of grass. The next thing: he made all the monkeys who were still well come and be vaccinated.

And for three days and three nights the ③(coming / monkeys / from / kept) the jungles and the valleys and the hills to the little house of grass, ④wh( )( )( ) the Doctor sat all day and all night, vaccinating and vaccinating.

Then he had another house made—a big one, with a lot of beds in it; and he ⑤( )ut all the sick ones in this house.

But so many were sick, there were not enough well ones to do the ⑥( )ursing. So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.

But the Leader of the Lions was a very proud ⑦( )reature. And when he came to the Doctor's big house full of beds he seemed angry and scornful.

"Do you ⑧(to / dare / me / ask ), Sir?" he said, glaring at the Doctor. "Do you dare to ask me—ME, THE KING OF BEASTS, to ⑨( )ait on a lot of dirty monkeys? Why, I wouldn't even eat them between meals!"

Although the lion looked very terrible, the Doctor ⑩(to / not / hard / tried) seem afraid of him.

"I didn't ask you to eat them," he said quietly. "And besides, they're not dirty. They've all had a bath this morning. YOUR coat ⑪(as / looks / it /though) needed brushing—badly. Now listen, and I'll tell you something: the day may come when the lions get sick. And if you don't help the other animals now, the lions ⑫(left / may / themselves / find ) all alone when THEY are in trouble. That often happens to ⑬( )roud people."

"The lions are never IN trouble—they only MAKE trouble," said the Leader, ⑭(his / turning / nose / up). And he stalked away into the jungle, feeling he had been rather smart and clever.

Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn't help. And then of course the antelopes—although they were too shy and ⑮( )imid to be rude to the Doctor like the lion—THEY pawed the ground, and smiled foolishly, and said they had never been nurses before.

And now the poor Doctor was ⑯( )orried frantic, wondering where he could get help enough to take care of all these thousands of monkeys in bed.

But the Leader of the Lions, when he got back to his den, saw his wife, the Queen Lioness, come ⑰(out / running / meet / to) him with her hair untidy.

"One of the cubs won't eat," she said. "I don't know WHAT to do with him. He hasn't taken a thing since last night."

And she began to cry and shake with ⑱( )ervousness—for she was a good mother, even though she was a lioness.

So the Leader went into his den and looked at his children—two very cunning little cubs, ⑲(the / lying / floor / on). And one of them seemed quite poorly.

Then the lion told his wife, quite proudly, just what he had said to the Doctor. And she got so angry she nearly ⑳( )rove him out of the den.

※(13)の解答①dreadfully②separate③(monkeys kept coming from )④where⑤put⑥nursing⑦creature⑧(dare to ask me)⑨wait⑩(tried hard not to)⑪(looks as though it)⑫(may find themselves left) ⑬proud⑭(turning his nose up)⑮timid⑯worried⑰(running out to meet)⑱nervousness⑲(lying on the floor)⑳drove

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(14)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )には文脈にあったアルファベットを補充してください。スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題になっています。

(14)
"You never DID have a grain of sense!" she ①( )creamed. "All the animals from here to the Indian Ocean are talking about this wonderful man, and ②(cure / how / can / he) any kind of sickness, and how kind he is—the only man in the whole world who can talk the language of the animals! And now, NOW—when we have a sick baby on our hands, you must go and ③offen( ) him! You great booby! Nobody but a ④(ever / fool / rude / is) to a GOOD doctor. You—," and she started pulling her husband's hair.

"Go back to that white man at once," she yelled, "and tell him you're sorry. And ⑤( )ake all the other empty-headed lions with you—and those stupid leopards and antelopes. Then do everything the Doctor tells you. Work hard! And perhaps he will be ⑥(come / to / enough / kind ) and see the cub later. Now be off!— HURRY, I tell you! You're not fit to be a father!"

And she went into the den next door, where another mother-lion lived, and ⑦(all / told / about / her) it.

So the Leader of the Lions went back to the Doctor and said, "I happened to be passing this way and thought I'd look in. Got any help yet?"

"No," said the Doctor. "I haven't. And I'm dreadfully worried."

"Help's pretty hard to get these days," said the lion. "Animals don't seem to want to work any more. You can't ⑧blam( ) them—in a way.... Well, seeing you're in difficulties, I don't ⑨min( ) doing what I can—just to oblige you—⑩(I / so / as / long) don't have to wash the creatures. And I have told all the other hunting animals to come and do their ⑪shar( ). The leopards should be here any minute now.... Oh, and by the way, we've got a sick cub at home. I don't think there's much the matter with him myself. But the wife is ⑫( )nxious. If you are around that way this evening, you might take a look at him, will you?"

Then the Doctor was very happy; ⑬(lions / for / the / all) and the leopards and the antelopes and the giraffes and the zebras—all the animals of the forests and the mountains and the plains—came to help ⑭(in / him / work / his ). There were so many of them that he had to send some away, and only kept the cleverest.

And now very soon the monkeys began to get better. At the end of a week the big house full of beds was half ⑮( )mpty. And at the end of the second week the last monkey had got well.

Then the Doctor's work was done; and he was so tired he went to bed and slept for three days without even ⑯( )urning over.

THE NINTH CHAPTER
THE MONKEYS' COUNCIL
CHEE-CHEE stood outside the Doctor's door, ⑰( )eeping everybody away till he woke up. Then John Dolittle told the monkeys that he must now go back to Puddleby.

They were very surprised at this; for they had thought that he was going to stay with them forever. And that night all the monkeys got together in the jungle ⑱(over / to / it / talk).

And the Chief Chimpanzee rose up and said,

"Why is it the good man is going away? Is he not happy here with us?"

But none of them could answer him.

Then the Grand Gorilla got up and said,

"I think we all should go to him and ⑲(him / ask / stay / to ). Perhaps if we make him a new house and a bigger bed, and promise him plenty of monkey-servants to work for him and to make life ⑳( )leasant for him—perhaps then he will not wish to go."

※(14)の解答①screamed②(how he can cure)③offend④(fool is ever rude)⑤take⑥(kind enough to come)⑦(told her all about)⑧blame ⑨mind⑩(so long as I)⑪share⑫anxious⑬(for all the lions) ⑭(him in his work)⑮empty⑯turning⑰keeping⑱(to talk it over)⑲(ask him to stay)⑳pleasant

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(15)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。( )には文脈にあったアルファベットを補充してください。スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題になっています。

(15)
Then Chee-Chee got up; and all the others ①( )hispered, "Sh! Look! Chee-Chee, the great Traveler, is about to speak!"

And Chee-Chee said to the other monkeys,

"My friends, I am afraid it is useless to ask the Doctor to stay. He ②( )wes money in Puddleby; and he says he must go back and pay it."

And the monkeys asked him, "What is MONEY?"

Then Chee-Chee ③(them / told / in / that) the Land of the White Men you could ④(money / get / without / nothing); you could DO nothing without money—that it was almost impossible to LIVE without money.

And some of them asked, "But can you not even eat and drink without paying?"

But Chee-Chee shook his head. And then he told them that even he, when he was with the organ-grinder, had ⑤(to / been / ask / made) the children for money.

And the Chief Chimpanzee ⑥( )urned to the Oldest Orangoutang and said, "Cousin, surely these Men be strange creatures! Who would wish to live in such a land? My gracious, how paltry!"

Then Chee-Chee said,

"When we were coming to you we had no boat to ⑦( )ross the sea in and no money to buy food to eat on our journey. So a man lent us some biscuits; and we said we would pay him when we came back. And we borrowed a boat from a sailor; but it was broken on the rocks when we reached the ⑧( )hores of Africa. Now the Doctor says he must go back and get the sailor another boat—because the man was poor and his ship was all he had."

And the monkeys were all silent for a while, sitting quite ⑨( )till upon the ground and thinking hard.

At last the Biggest Baboon got up and said,

"I do not think we ⑩(to / ought / this / let ) good man leave our land till we have given him a fine present to take with him, so that he may know we are ⑪( )rateful for all that he has done for us."

And a little, tiny red monkey who was sitting up in a tree shouted down,

"I think that too!"

And then they all cried out, ⑫(noise / great / a / making), "Yes, yes. Let us give him the finest present a White Man ever had!"

Now they began to wonder and ⑬(one / ask / what / another) would be the best thing to give him. And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!" And another—"A hundred bunches of bananas!— At least he shall not have to buy his fruit in the Land Where You Pay to Eat!"

But Chee-Chee told them that all these things would be too heavy to carry so far and would ⑭(half / go / before / bad) was eaten.

"If you want to ⑮( )lease him," he said, "give him an animal. You may be sure he will be kind to it. Give him some rare animal they have not got in the menageries."

And the monkeys asked him, "What are MENAGERIES?"

Then Chee-Chee ⑯(that / explained / them / to) menageries were places in the Land of the White Men, where animals were ⑰(for / put / cages / in) people to come and look at. And the monkeys were very ⑱( )hocked and said to one another,

"These Men are like thoughtless young ones—stupid and easily amused. Sh! It is a prison he means."

So then they asked Chee-Chee what ⑲rar( ) animal it could be that they should give the Doctor—one the White Men had not seen before. And the Major of the Marmosettes asked,

"Have they an iguana over there?"

But Chee-Chee said, "Yes, there is one in the London Zoo."

And another asked, "Have they an okapi?"

But Chee-Chee said, "Yes. In Belgium, where my organ-grinder took me five years ago, they had an okapi in a big city they call Antwerp."

And another asked, "Have they a pushmi-pullyu?"

Then Chee-Chee said, "No. No White Man has ever seen a pushmi-pullyu. Let ⑳(give / us / that / him)."

※(15)の解答①whispered②owes③(told them that in)④(get nothing without money)⑤(been made to ask)⑥turned⑦cross⑧shores⑨still (静止した)⑩(ought to let this) ⑪grateful⑫(making a great noise)←分詞構文⑬(ask one another what)⑭(go bad before half)⑮please ⑯(explained to them that)⑰(put in cages for)⑱shocked⑲rare⑳(us give him that)

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(16)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。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。

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THE TENTH CHAPTER
THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL
PUSHMI-PULLYUS are now ①***(zealous : extinct : federal : stern). That means, there aren't any more. But long ago, when Doctor Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very ②**(stable : scarce : modest : potential). They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head. They were very shy and terribly hard to catch. The black men get most of their animals by ③(behind / sneaking / them / up) while they are not looking. But you could not do this with the pushmi-pullyu—because, no matter which way you came towards him, he was always ④*(gaining : facing : revealing : describing) you. And ⑤*(because : besides : although : unless), only one half of him slept at a time. The other head was always awake—and watching. This was why they were never caught and never seen in Zoos. Though many of the greatest huntsmen and the cleverest menagerie-keepers ⑥*(ran : spent : cost : spread) years of their lives searching through the jungles in all weathers for pushmi-pullyus, not a ⑦(ever / single / had / one) been caught. Even then, years ago, he was the only animal in the world with two heads.

Well, the monkeys ⑧**(put off : set out : stood by : gave up) hunting for this animal through the forest. And after they had gone a good many miles, one of them found ⑨**(peculiar : tropical : secure : shallow) footprints near the edge of a river; and they knew that a pushmi-pullyu must be very near that spot.

Then they went along the bank of the river a little way and they saw a place ⑩*(which : where : when : what) the grass was high and thick; and they ⑪*(persuaded : expressed : guessed : approved) that he was in there.

⑫*(While : Because : So : Although) they all joined hands and made a great circle round the high grass. The pushmi-pullyu heard them coming; and he tried ⑬(through / break / to / hard) the ring of monkeys. But he couldn't do it. When he saw that it was ⑭(use / no / to / trying) escape, he sat down and waited to see what they wanted.

They asked him if he would go with Doctor Dolittle and ⑮(show / be / on / put) in the Land of the White Men.

But he shook both his heads hard and said, "Certainly not!"

They ⑯*(estimated : explained : supposed : apologized) to him that he would not be shut up in a menagerie but would just be looked at. They told him that the Doctor was a very kind man but hadn't any money; and people would pay to see a two-headed animal and the Doctor would get rich and could pay for the boat he had ⑰*(owned : borrowed : delivered : operated) to come to Africa in.

But he answered, "No. You know how ⑱**(decent : sensible : shy : bold) I am—I hate being stared at." And he almost began to cry.

Then for three days they tried to ⑲*(justify : persuade : attract : contribute) him.

And at the end of the third day he said he would come with them and ⑳(of / kind / what / see) a man the Doctor was, first.


※(16)の解答①(extinct)②(scarce)③(sneaking up behind them) ④(facing)⑤(besides)⑥(spent)⑦(single one had ever ) been caught. ⑧(set out)⑨(peculiar)⑩(where) ⑪(guessed )⑫(So)⑬(hard to break through)⑭(no use trying to)⑮(be put on show)⑯(explained)⑰*(borrowed)⑱(shy)⑲(persuade) ⑳(see what kind of)

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(17)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。
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(17)
So the ①(with / monkeys / back / traveled) the pushmi-pullyu. And when they came to where the Doctor's little house of grass was, they knocked on the door.

The duck, who was packing the trunk, said, "Come in!"

And Chee-Chee very ②*(patiently : narrowly : proudly : annually) took the animal inside and showed him to the Doctor.

"What in the world is it?" asked John Dolittle, ③*(gazing : suggesting : proving : recalling) at the strange creature.

"Lord save us!" cried the duck. "How does it make up its mind?"

"It doesn't look to me as though it had any," said Jip, the dog.

"This, Doctor," said Chee-Chee, "is the pushmi-pullyu—the rarest animal of the African jungles, the only two-headed ④*(view : beast : device : habit) in the world! Take him home with you and your fortune's made. People will pay any money to see him."

"But I don't want any money," said the Doctor.

"Yes, you do," said Dab-Dab, the duck. "Don't you ⑤(how / remember / had / we) to pinch and scrape to pay the butcher's bill in Puddleby? And how are you going to get the sailor the new boat you spoke of—⑥**(because : unless : although : since) we have the money to buy it?"

"I was going to make him one," said the Doctor.

"Oh, do be ⑦**(sensible : negative : sensitive : efficient)!" cried Dab-Dab. "Where would you get all the wood and the nails to make one with?—And besides, what are we going to live on? We shall be poorer than ever when we get back. Chee-Chee's ⑧*(stupidly : eagerly : perfectly : generously)right: take the funny-looking thing along, do!"

"Well, perhaps there is something ⑨(say / you / what / in)," ⑩**(astonished : murmured : cheated : pleaded) the Doctor. "It certainly would make a nice new kind of pet. But does the er—what-do-you-call-it really want to go ⑪**(curiously : abroad : wildly : mutually)?"

"Yes, I'll go," said the pushmi-pullyu who saw at once, from the Doctor's face, that he was a man to be ⑫(treated : satisfied : confirmed : trusted). "You have been so kind to the animals here—and the monkeys tell me that I am the only one who will do. But you must promise me that if I do ⑬(it / not / in / like) the Land of the White Men you will send me back."

"Why, ⑭**(particularly : certainly : vacantly : enormously)—of course, of course," said the Doctor. "Excuse me, surely you are ⑮*(referred : added : offered : related) to the Deer Family, are you not?"

"Yes," said the pushmi-pullyu—"to the Abyssinian Gazelles and the Asiatic Chamois—on my mother's side. My father's great-grandfather was the last of the Unicorns."

"Most interesting!" murmured the Doctor; and he took a book out of the trunk which Dab-Dab was packing and began turning the pages. "Let us see if Buffon says anything—"

"I notice," said the duck, "that you only ⑯(of / talk / one / with ) your mouths. Can't the other head talk as well?"

"Oh, yes," said the pushmi-pullyu. "But I ⑰*(get : keep : take : give) the other mouth for eating—mostly. In that way I can talk while I am eating without being ⑱*(lazy : rude : proper : casual). Our people have always been very polite."

When the packing was finished and everything ⑲(to / was / start / ready ), the monkeys gave a grand party for the Doctor, and all the animals of the jungle came. And they had pineapples and mangoes and honey and all sorts of good things to eat and drink.

After they had all finished eating, the Doctor got up and said,

"My friends: I am not clever at speaking long words after dinner, like some men; and I have just eaten many fruits and much honey. But I wish to tell you that I am very sad at leaving your beautiful country. Because I have things to do in the Land of the White Men, I must go. After I have gone, remember never to let the flies ⑳(settle : depend : insist : reflect)on your food before you eat it; and do not sleep on the ground when the rains are coming. I—er—er—I hope you will all live happily ever after."

※(17)の解答①(monkeys traveled back with) ②(proudly)③(gazing)④(beast)⑤(remember how we had)⑥(unless)⑦(sensible)⑧( perfectly)⑨(in what you say)⑩(murmured)⑪(abroad)⑫(trusted)⑬(not like it in)⑭(certainly)⑮(related)⑯(talk with one of)⑰(keep) ⑱(rude)⑲(was ready to start)⑳(settle)

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(18)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。
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。四語選択問題の単語は大学入試、英検、TOEICに共通する重要単語で＊印は難易度の目安です。＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。

(18)
When the Doctor stopped speaking and sat down, all the monkeys ①**(scratched : clapped : posed : crushed) their hands a long time and said to one another, "Let it be remembered always ②(that / among / people / our) he sat and ate with us, here, under the trees. For surely he is the Greatest of Men!"

And the Grand Gorilla, who had the ③*(strength : length : width : deapth) of seven horses in his hairy arms, ④**(teared : rolled : spilled : teased) a great rock up to the head of the table and said,

"This stone for all time shall ⑤**(inspect : distort : consult : mark) the spot."

And even to this day, in the heart of the Jungle, that stone still is there. And monkey-mothers, passing through the forest with their families, still point down at it from the branches and ⑥*(stick : whisper : apply : tend) to their children, "Sh! There it is—look—where the Good White Man sat and ate food with us in the Year of the Great Sickness!"

Then, when the party was over, the Doctor and his pets started out to go back to the seashore. And all the monkeys went with him as far as the ⑦*(climate : era : cause : edge) of their country, carrying his trunk and bags, ⑧(him / to / off / see).

THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER
THE BLACK PRINCE
BY the edge of the river they stopped and said ⑨*(goods : farewell : liberty : treasure).

This took a long time, because all those thousands of monkeys wanted to ⑩*(release : shake : wound : imitate) John Dolittle by the hand.

Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone, Polynesia said,

"We must ⑪***(recite : swallow : deceive : tread) softly and talk low as we go through the land of the Jolliginki. If the King should hear us, he will send his soldiers to catch us again; for I am sure he is still very angry over the ⑫(on / played / I / trick) him."

"What I am wondering," said the Doctor, "is where we are going to get another boat to go home in.... Oh well, perhaps we'll find one ⑬*(rising : lying : raising : laying) about on the beach that nobody is using. 'Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.'"

One day, while they were passing through a very thick part of the forest, Chee-Chee ⑭(of / went / them / ahead) to look for cocoanuts. And while he was away, the Doctor and the rest of the animals, who did not know the jungle-paths so well, got lost in the deep woods. They ⑮*(endured : survived : wandered : selected) around and around but could not find their way down to the seashore.

Chee-Chee, when he could not see them anywhere, was terribly ⑯*(curious : upset : idle : capable). He climbed high trees and looked out from the top branches to try and see the Doctor's high hat; he waved and shouted; he called to all the animals by name. But it was no use. They seemed to have ⑰*(emerged : disappeared : gathered : accompanied) altogether.

Indeed they had lost their way very badly. They had ⑰***(strayed : shrinked : enrolled : swept) a long way off the path, and the jungle was so thick with bushes and creepers and vines that sometimes they could hardly move at all, and the Doctor had to take out his pocket-knife and cut his way along. They ⑱**(stumbled : isolated : located : embarrassed )into wet, boggy places; they got all tangled up in thick convolvulus-runners; they ⑲**(starved : abused : scratched : invaded) themselves on thorns, and twice they nearly lost the medicine-bag in the under-brush. There ⑳(to / seemed / end / no) their troubles; and nowhere could they come upon a path.

※(18)の解答①(clapped)②(among our people that)③(strength)④(rolled)⑤(mark)⑥(whisper)⑦(edge)⑧(to see him off)⑨(farewell)
⑩(shake)⑪(tread)⑫(trick I played on)⑬(lying)⑭(went ahead of them)⑮(wandered)⑯(upset)⑰(disappeared)⑰(strayed)⑱(stumbled)⑲(scratched)⑳(seemed no end to)

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(19)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。
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。

(19)
At last, after blundering about like this for many days, getting their clothes torn and their faces covered with mud, they walked right into the King's back-garden ①*(for : in : on : by ) mistake. The King's men came running up at ②*(case : once : matter : course) and caught them.

But Polynesia flew into a tree in the garden, ③(anybody / without / her / seeing ), and hid herself. The Doctor and the ④**(rest : theme : tide : orbit) were taken before the King.

"Ha, ha!" cried the King. "So you are caught again! This time you shall not escape. Take them ⑤(back / all / prison / to) and put double locks on the door. This White Man shall scrub my kitchen-floor for the rest of his life!"

So the Doctor and his pets were led back to prison and locked up. And the Doctor was told that in the morning he must begin scrubbing the kitchen-floor.

They were all very unhappy.

"This is a great ⑥***(nuisance : shortage : nutrition : authority)," said the Doctor. "I really must get back to Puddleby. That poor sailor will think I've stolen his ship if I don't get home soon.... I wonder if those hinges are loose."

But the door was very strong and ⑦*(politely : firmly : patiently : slightly) locked. There seemed no ⑧(out / getting / of / chance). Then Gub-Gub began to cry again.

All this time Polynesia was still sitting in the tree in the palace-garden. She was saying nothing and ⑨**(melting : blinking : scanning : folding)her eyes.

This was always a ⑩(bad / very / with / sign ) Polynesia. Whenever she said nothing and blinked her eyes, it meant that somebody had been making trouble, and she was thinking out some way to put things right. People ⑪(for / who / trouble / made) Polynesia or her friends were nearly always sorry for it afterwards.

Presently she spied Chee-Chee swinging through the trees still looking for the Doctor. When Chee-Chee saw her, he came into her tree and asked her ⑫(of / what / become / had) him.

"The Doctor and all the animals have been caught by the King's men and locked up again," whispered Polynesia. "We lost our way in the jungle and blundered into the palace-garden by mistake."

"But couldn't you guide them?" asked Chee-Chee; and he began to ⑬**(grab : scold : overlook : assess) the parrot for letting them get lost while he was away looking for the cocoanuts.

"It was all that stupid pig's ⑭*(detail : fault : skill : duty)," said Polynesia. "He would keep running off the path hunting for ginger-roots. And I was kept so busy catching him and bringing him back, that I turned to the left, instead of the right, when we reached the swamp.—Sh!—Look! There's Prince Bumpo coming into the garden! He must not see us.—Don't move, whatever you do!"

And there, sure enough, was Prince Bumpo, the King's son, opening the garden-gate. He carried a book of fairy-tales under his arm. He came ⑮**(healing : distributing : plunging : strolling) down the gravel-walk, humming a sad song, till he reached a stone seat right under the tree where the parrot and the monkey were hiding. Then he lay down on the seat and began reading the fairy-stories to himself.

Chee-Chee and Polynesia watched him, keeping very quiet and still.

After a while the King's son laid the book down and sighed a ⑯***(cruel : weary : loyal : trivial) sigh.

"If I ⑰*(was : am : are : were) only a WHITE prince!" said he, with a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes.

Then the parrot, talking in a small, high voice like a little girl, said aloud,

"Bumpo, some one might turn thee into a white prince perchance."

The King's son started up off the seat and looked all around.

"What is this I hear?" he cried. "Methought the sweet music of a fairy's silver voice rang from yonder bower! Strange!"

"Worthy Prince," said Polynesia, ⑱(still / keeping / so / very) Bumpo couldn't see her, "thou sayest winged words of truth. For 'tis I, Tripsitinka, the Queen of the Fairies, that speak to thee. I am hiding in a rose-bud."

"Oh tell me, Fairy-Queen," cried Bumpo, clasping his hands in joy, "who is it can turn me white?"

"In thy father's prison," said the parrot, "there lies a famous wizard, John Dolittle by name. Many things he knows of ⑲*(poison : medicine : shame : legacy) and magic, and mighty deeds has he performed. Yet thy kingly father leaves him languishing long and lingering hours. Go to him, ⑳*(similar : brave : vast : remote) Bumpo, secretly, when the sun has set; and behold, thou shalt be made the whitest prince that ever won fair lady! I have said enough. I must now go back to Fairyland. Farewell!"

"Farewell!" cried the Prince. "A thousand thanks, good Tripsitinka!"

And he sat down on the seat again with a smile upon his face, waiting for the sun to set.

※(19)の解答①(by)②(once)③(without anybody seeing her)④(rest)⑤(all back to prison)⑥(nuisance)⑦(firmly) ⑧(chance of getting out)⑨(blinking)⑩(very bad sign with) ⑪(who made trouble for) ⑫(what had become of)⑬(scold)⑭(fault)⑮(strolling)⑯(weary)⑰(were)⑱(keeping very still so)←ここでのstillは「静かな」という意味の形容詞⑲(medicine)⑳(brave)

「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(20)

　著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生アフリカゆき」から、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作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。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。四語選択問題の単語は大学入試、英検、TOEICに共通する重要単語で＊印は難易度の目安です。＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。

(20)
THE TWELFTH CHAPTER
MEDICINE AND MAGIC
VERY, very quietly, ①(that / making / no / sure) one should see her, Polynesia then slipped out at the back of the tree and flew across to the prison.

She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen. She told the pig to bring the Doctor to the window because she wanted to speak to him. So Gub-Gub went and woke the Doctor who was taking a ②**(nap : stain : cheer : flavor).

"Listen," whispered the parrot, when John Dolittle's face ③*(occured : appeared : bursted : existed)"Prince Bumpo is coming here to-night to see you. And you've got to find some way ④(him / to / white / turn). But be sure to make him promise you first that he will open the prison-door and find a ship for you to ⑤(in / sea / the / cross)."

"This is all very well," said the Doctor. "But it isn't so easy to turn a black man white. You speak ⑥(were / as / he / though) a dress to be re-dyed. It's not so simple. 'Shall the leopard change his spots, or the Ethiopian his skin,' you know?"

"I don't know anything about that," said Polynesia impatiently. "But you MUST turn this man white. Think of a way—think hard. You've got plenty ⑦(left / of / in / medicines) the bag. He'll do ⑧(for / anything / if / you ) you change his color. It is your only chance to get out of prison."

"Well, I ⑧*(represent : suppose : publish : seek) it MIGHT be possible," said the Doctor. "Let me see—," and ⑨(went : he : to : over) his medicine-bag, murmuring something about "liberated chlorine on animal-pigment—perhaps zinc-ointment, as a ⑩(urgent : temporary : ordinary : accurate) measure, spread thick—"

Well, that night Prince Bumpo came secretly to the Doctor in prison and said to him,

"White Man, I am an unhappy prince. Years ago I ⑪(of / went / search /in) The Sleeping Beauty, whom I had read of in a book. And having traveled through the world many days, I at last found her and kissed the lady very gently to ⑫*(replace : awaken : flourish : arrest) her—as the book said I should. 'Tis true indeed that she awoke. But when she saw my face she cried out, 'Oh, he's black!' And she ran away and wouldn't marry me—but went to sleep again somewhere else. So I came back, full of sadness, to my father's kingdom. Now I hear that you are a wonderful magician and have many powerful potions. So I come ⑬(you / to / help / for). If you will turn me white, ⑭(may / so / I / that) go back to The Sleeping Beauty, I will give you half my kingdom and anything besides you ask."

"Prince Bumpo," said the Doctor, looking thoughtfully at the bottles in his medicine-bag, "supposing I made your hair a nice blonde color—would not that do instead to make you happy?"

"No," said Bumpo. "Nothing else will ⑮*(satisfy : earn : supply : indicate) me. I must be a white prince."

"You know it is very hard to change the color of a prince," said the Doctor—"one of the hardest things a magician can do. You only want your face white, do you not?"

"Yes, that is all," said Bumpo. "Because I shall wear shining armor and gauntlets of steel, like the other white princes, and ride on a horse."

"Must your face be white all over?" asked the Doctor.

"Yes, all over," said Bumpo—"and I would like my eyes blue too, but I suppose that would be very hard to do."

"Yes, it would," said the Doctor quickly. "Well, I will ⑯(can : I : what : do) for you. You will have to be very ⑰*(solid : strict : patient :vital) though—you know with some medicines you can never be very sure. I might have to try two or three times. You have a strong skin—yes? Well that's all right. Now come over here by the light—Oh, but before I do anything, you must first go down to the beach and get a ship ready, ⑱(it / in / food / with), to take me across the sea. Do not speak a word of this to any one. And when I have ⑲(you / done / ask / as), you must let me and all my animals out of prison. Promise—by the crown of Jolliginki!"

So the Prince promised and went away to get a ship ready at the seashore.

When he came back and said that it was done, the Doctor asked Dab-Dab to bring a basin. Then he mixed a lot of medicines in the basin and told Bumpo to ⑳***(dip : slap : emit : depict) his face in it.

※(20)の解答①(making sure that no)←分詞構文 ②(nap)③( appeared)④(to turn him white). ←turn him whiteでVOC構造⑤(cross the sea in)⑥(as though he were)⑦(of medicines left in)⑧(anything for you if)⑧(suppose)⑨(he went over to)⑩(temporary) ⑪(went in search of)⑫(awaken)⑬(to you for help)⑭(so that I may)⑮(satisfy)⑯(do what I can) for ⑰(patient)⑱(with food in it)⑲(done as you ask)⑳(dip)