ことばのいずみ~Fountain of Language

Some athletes have intensive training at high altitude
with less oxygen to boost their cardiorespiratory function,
and then their performance at lower altitude gets better.
You can do the same in TOEIC as well. I mean, getting
used to tougher exercises will make you feel real TOEIC
is easy. In TOEIC, you are supposed to choose one correct
answer from among the four choices, but repeating the same
kind of exercises isn't enough to improve your score. I'll
give you tougher ones and push you up to the higher level.
Are you ready?

酸素のより薄い高地でトレーニングを積み、心肺機能を高める
ことにより、平地でのパフォーマンスを上げるアスリートがいます。
TOEICに関しても同様のことを行うことが可能です。即ち、より
過酷な条件を持つ問題に取り組むことで、本番のTOEICを易しく
感じさせるということ。４つの選択肢から正解を一つ選び出すのが
TOEICの読解ですが、そのタイプの問題ばかり繰り返しても、
スコアの伸びはどこかで必ず頭打ちになります。私が皆さんにより
高地トレーニングを提供し、今より数段上のレベルへとお連れしま
しょう。準備はよろしいですか？

You are to choose as many statements as possible that match
the news.　Give it your best shot!

ニュース本文の内容に合うものを全て選んでください。健闘を祈ります！
上級者であると自負する方は、どういった意図で私が「ひっかけ」
ようとしているのか、そこまで見破って説明できるようにして
ください！

☆The news is from this website and I use it with their permission.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/copyright.html


The world-renowned Cambridge University is considering abolishing handwritten exams
after 800 years. University officials may ask students to type their exam answers on
a computer rather than use a pen. The move follows complaints from examination markers
who say they are finding test papers increasingly illegible due to poor handwriting.
Academics say today's students primarily use laptops in lectures and tutorials instead
of pens. Students are losing the ability to write by hand. One academic said asking
students to hand-write exams actually causes them physical difficulties. The muscles
in their hand are not used to writing extensively for prolonged periods of two to
three hours.
A Cambridge University lecturer, Dr Sarah Pearsall, told Britain's 'Daily Telegraph'
newspaper that handwriting was becoming a "lost art". She said: "Twenty years ago,
students routinely wrote by hand several hours a day, but now they write virtually
nothing by hand, except exams." She added: "We have been concerned for years about
the declining handwriting problem. There has definitely been a downward trend. It is
difficult for both the students and the examiners as it is harder and harder to read
these exam scripts." Dr Pearsall says some students' handwriting is so illegible that
they had to return to the university over the summer to read their answers out loud to
examiners who could not read their writing.

a)These days students rarely have an opportunity to write their answers on their
exam papers by hand.
b)Recent university students are not physically strong enough to write their answers
clearly for the examination makers.
c)Some students were forced to spend some time making out what they had written
on their paper during the vacation.
d)How university students take their lecture notes now is different from what they did two decades ago.
e)Some educators are frustrated with their students' physical weakness that makes
their writing hard to read.

Check the answers and receive my brief lecture below!
解答と解説は下に！













まずは全ての選択肢を正しく読み取りましょう。

a)These days students rarely have an opportunity to write their answers on their
exam papers by hand.

昨今の学生たちには、試験の解答を手書きするという機会がほとんどない。

b)Recent university students are not physically strong enough to write their answers
clearly for the examination makers.

最近の学生達は、試験作成者のために答えをはっきり書けるほどの身体的
強さを持たない。

c)Some students were forced to spend some time making out what they had written
on their paper during the vacation.

答案に書いた答えを判別するために時間を割くことを、休暇中に強いられた
学生がいる。

d)How university students take their lecture notes now is different from
what they did two decades ago.

現在大学生達が講義内容をノートに取る方法は、20年前とは異なっている。

e)Some educators are frustrated with their students' physical weakness that makes
their writing hard to read.

彼ら彼女らの筆跡を読み辛いものにしている学生達の身体的弱さにたいし、
苛立ちを覚えている教育者がいる。

では選択肢が正しいか否か、検証していきましょう！

a)
試験で手書きを行う機会がないとは一切述べられていません。むしろ日常的に
それを行う機会が少ないため、試験での手書きに苦労していると述べてあります。
×

b)
はっきり申し上げておきましょう、これを落とした方は軽率です！かつての
私のように！私はその不注意さにより、990点を何度も取り損ねたのです。文中には
examination marker、即ち「採点者」と記されていますよ。makerではありません！
×

c)
下から三行目、最後の一文が根拠です。「手書きがあまりに汚いので、夏の間大学に
戻り、答えを読めない採点者のために自分の答えを音読せねばならなかった学生がいる。」
〇

d)
一段落目の五・六行目、二段落目の二行目以降に書いてあることと照らし合わせてください。
〇

e)
「いらだっている」などとは一切書かれていません。
×

何となく選んだ答えがたまたま合っていても意味はありません。
根拠なき答えは答えにあらず！常に正解不正解の理由を説明
できるようになりましょう。

☆ちなみにこの高地トレーニングを毎回授業内で行っている
生徒さんに現れる症状は・・・
初期・・・TOEIC本番の読解や選択肢で簡単なものに対して、
「こんなに簡単なはずがない！」と疑心暗鬼になる(笑)
中期・・・徐々に上記の疑いを向けるべき問題と、あっさり
通り過ぎて良い問題の判別ができるようになる。
後期・・・時間内に解ききれない問題数が20問→10問→
5問と徐々に減っていき、ついには解き残しがなくなる。
且つ正答率も上がりスコアが大きく伸びる。
というのが一般的なものです。皆さんも是非役立ててください！

How did you like it? It would be great if this article
could help you improve your English and get a higher
score in a TOEIC test!

御機嫌よう!
Have a good one!
¡Hasta luego!
Hẹn gặp lại!
곧 당신을보고!


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