2023年度公立高校入試過去問解説【青森県・英語・大問5】

テーマ：読解

問題文

次の英文は、高校1年生のコウスケ（Kosuke）が、英語の授業で発表した内容です。これを読んで、あとの（1）～（3）に答えなさい。

（1）

本文の内容と合うように英文を完成させるとき、次のア～エに続く最も適切なものを、1～4の中からそれぞれ一つ選び、その番号を書きなさい。

ア：When Kosuke talked with his sister about 2D codes,
1: it was her first time to see them.
2: he didn’t know anything about them.
3: she saw some of them before.
4: he let her put his smartphone over them.

イ：2D codes
1: were born because many Japanese people tried hard to invent them.
2: have less information than barcodes.
3: were used in a company to keep many boxes.
4: became popular because there were people who wanted to find ways to use them.

ウ：The thing Kosuke learned is that
1: innovation is only born from something big and special
2: answers to inconvenient things can sometimes be very easy.
3: he doesn’t need to look for new ideas and should stay with old ideas.
4: a great idea can spread in the society even if we especially don’t do anything.

エ：Kosuke is thinking that
1: he can create a better society by focusing on “If” around him.
2: it is important to keep listning to “If” from people and waiting for innovation.
3: the society around him has no doors of innovation, so he has to make them.
4: “If” will create nothing and people ahould stop saying “If”.

（2）

an important thingが表している内容を日本語で書きなさい。

（3）

本文の内容をふまえて、次の英文の（ア）～（ウ）に入る最も適切な語を、下の1～7の中からそれぞれ一つ選び、その番号を書きなさい。

When a Japanese man had （ア） in keeping a lot of information in his work, he found an answer from an igo board in his daily life. Kosuke understood that he could use a （イ） way of thinking to make the society around him better. We should look around and （ウ） what we can improve without keeping only old ideas. Each of us will be one of the people who will make a good change in the future.

1:stay 2:similar 3:easy 4:convenience 5:trouble 6:find 7:traditional

解答・解説

（1）

ア：3
本文「”What’s this? I always see this around me.”」参照。
イ：4
本文「Through this story ~ make it better.」参照。
ウ：2
本文「There are inconvenient things ~ can be very easy.」参照。
エ：1
本文「Use people’s “If” to open ~ we have never imagined.」参照。

（2）　

（例）私たちはどんなものからでも、どこでも、いつでも、素晴らしいアイデアを手に入れることができること。

（3）

ア：5
イ：2
ウ：6