「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(4)

　シェイクスピアを読んで英語ができるようになった人はあまりいません。しかし童話のようなやさしいものから入れば英語上達はずっと容易になります。
　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。
　著作権の関係でお示しすることはできないとはいえ、英検１級レベルの長文(TIME,NEWSWEEKのやさしめの記事程度)から作成した四語選択問題と四語整序問題がすらすら解けるようになれば英検１級・TOEIC900点レベル到達は十分可能です。

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Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string. The Doctor saw at once that the monkey's collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy. So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go. The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. But the Doctor told him that if he didn't go away he would punch him on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, though he wasn't very tall. So the Italian ①(rude / saying / away / went) things and the monkey stayed with Doctor Dolittle and had a good home. The other animals in the house called him "Chee-Chee"—which is a common word in monkey-language, meaning "ginger."

And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad tooth-ache ②( )scaped at night and came into the Doctor's garden. The Doctor talked to him in crocodile-language and took him into the house and made his tooth better. But when the crocodile saw what a ③(was / nice / it / house )—with all the different places for the different kinds of animals—he too wanted to live with the Doctor. He asked couldn't he sleep in the fish-pond at the bottom of the garden, if he promised not to eat the fish. When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and ④( )avage that he ⑤( )rightened them away. But to every one in the house he was always as ⑥( )entle as a kitten.

But now the old ladies ⑦( )rew afraid to send their lap-dogs to Doctor Dolittle because of the crocodile; and the farmers wouldn't believe that he would not eat the lambs and sick calves ⑧(to / they / be / brought ) cured. So the Doctor went to the crocodile and told him he must go back to his circus. But he ⑨( )ept such big tears, and ⑩( )egged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn't the heart to ⑪( )urn him out.

So then the Doctor's sister came to him and said, "John, you must send that creature away. Now the farmers and the old ladies are afraid to send their animals to you—just as we were beginning ⑫(be / to / off / well )again. Now we shall be ⑬( )uined entirely. This is the last straw. I will no ⑭( )onger be housekeeper for you if you don't send away that alligator."

"It isn't an alligator," said the Doctor—"it's a crocodile."

"I don't ⑮( )are what you call it," said his sister. "It's a nasty thing to find under the bed. I won't have it in the house."

"But he has promised me," the Doctor answered, "that he will not bite any one. He doesn't like the circus; and I haven't the money to send him back to Africa where he comes from. He ⑮( )inds his own business and on the whole is very well ⑯( )ehaved. Don't be so fussy."

"I tell you I WILL NOT have him around," said Sarah. "He eats the linoleum. If you don't send him away this minute I'll—I'll go and get married!"

"All right," said the Doctor, "go and get married. It can't be ⑰( )elped." And he took down his hat and went out into the garden.

So Sarah Dolittle ⑱( )acked up her things and went off; and the Doctor was left all alone with his animal family.

And very soon he was poorer than he had ever been before. With all these mouths to ⑳( )ill, and the house to look after, and no one to do the mending, and no money coming in to pay the butcher's bill, things began to look very difficult. But the Doctor didn't worry at all.

※(4)の解答①(went away saying rude)②escaped③(nice house it was)④savage⑤frightened⑥gentle⑦grew⑧(they brought to be) ⑨wept⑩begged⑪turn⑫(to be well off)⑬ruined⑭longer⑮care ⑯minds⑰behaved⑱helped⑲packed⑳fill