センター試験新傾向問題の中に下線部の意味を文脈から特定する、という類推を働かせて読む問題があります。今日は２問掲載します。本番では４択ですが、和訳するという形式で出題します。
(01) 下線部を簡潔に和訳しなさい。
Meg talks to Brian in an office room.
Meg: Hi, Brian! What’s up? You look pale.
Brian: Hi, Meg. I want to hit the sack immediately.
Meg: What? It’s still 9:30 a.m. What’s wrong with you?
Brian: Well, last night I worked on a report that’s due on Monday. I spent the whole night on it. I didn’t sleep a wink after all.
Meg: I see. That’s why you want to go to bed now.
(02) 下線部を数式で表しなさい。
The deep connection Einstein discovered between energy and mass is expressed in the equation of E with m multiplied by c squared. Difficult? Okay, let me explain. To square means to multiply a number by itself. For example, if you square 2, then you get 4 by multiplying 2 by 2. Here “E” represents energy, “m” represents mass, and “c squared” is a very large number, the square of the speed of light. Full confirmation was slow in coming. In <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City> in 1933, Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie took a photograph below showing the conversion of energy into mass. A quantum of light, invisible here, carries energy up from beneath. In the middle it changes into mass — two freshly created particles which curve away from each other.
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