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In the beginning I wrote my diary on the backs of paper place mats. My friend and
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口次の英文は、筆者が20歳の頃に書き始めた日記についての話である。英文を読んで、あ
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I were hitchhiking at the time. I was mailing regular letters and posteards to my
friends back home, but because I had no fixed address, no one could answer them
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And so I began writing to myself. Those first several years are hard to reread, not
Seven is trulya wonderful age. For two days. That's the length of time my friend
because they're boring-a diary is fully licensed to be boring- but because the writne
is so horribly *affected.
Pam and her son, Tyler, who is in the second grade, normally visit. He's at the stage
(注)*conviction =確信
*repository =宝庫
where whatever I do, he wants to do. This includes wearing button-down shirts; singing
* devotion =専念, 献身
*affected =気取った
the same song until everyone begs you to stop; and carrying a small reporter's notebook.
I gave him one the last time he came to the house and, imitating me, he stuck it in his
pocket alongside a pen. That afternoon my friend drove us to a nearby town. There was
番号で答えよ。
an issue of the local paper in the backseat of the car, and reading it on our way there, I
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came upon a headline that read, "Dangerous Olives Could Be on Sale."
“Hmm, I said, and I copied it into my littlenotebook.
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Tyler did the same but with less *conviction. "Why are we doing this again?"
“It's for your diary," I explained. “You write things down during the day, then
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tomorrow morning you expand on them."
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“But why?" he asked. “What's the point?"
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That's a question I've asked myself every day since September 5, 1977. I hadn't
known on September 4 that the following afternoon I would start keeping a diary, or
that it would consume me for the next thirty-five years and counting. It wasn't
something Td been putting off, but once I began, I knew that I had to keep doing it. I
knew as wel that what I was writing was not a journal but an old-fashioned, secret
diary. Often the terms are used in almost the same way, though I've never understood
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問2 下線部(ア)の内容を具体的に日本語で説明せよ。
why. Both have the word "day" at their root, but a journal, in my opinion, is a
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*repository of ideas - your brain on the page. A diary, by contrast, is your heart. As
for “journaling," a verb that appeared at around the same time as “scrapbooking," that
just means you're strange and have way to0 much time on your hands.
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A few things have changed since that first entry in 1977, but I've never hesitated in
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my "devotion, skipping, on average, maybe one or two days a year. It's not that I think
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my life is important. Perhaps it just feeds into my compulsive nature, the need to do the
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exact same thing at the exact same time every morning. Some diary sessions are longer
than others, but the length has more to do with my mood than with what's going on.
間3 次の英文は、筆者の日記に対する考えをまとめたものである。英文の空所( O),
(の)に入れるのに最も適当なものを,それぞれ下の1~4のうちから一つずつ選び、
問5 下線部(イ)の理由について、当時の筆者の行動とともに次のようにまとめたい。次の空
所に35字程度の日本語を補い。文を完成させよ。ただし、旬読点も字数に数える。
番号で答えよ。ただし、同じ番号を二度用いてはならない。
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"Journal" and "diary," both come from the same word originally, but the former is a
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開4 次の Question に対するAnswer となるように、空所に入れるのに適当な内容を、英語で
補え。
Ouestion:Why has the author written in his diary almost every day since 1977?
Answer
He has never hesitated to keep a diary because he might feel uneasy if he
問6 次の英文は本文全体の内容をまとめたものである。空所(①. ) ~ ( ① ) に入れ
るのに最も適当なものを,それぞれ下の1~4のうちから一つずつ選び、番号で答えよ。
thinks a child of age seven will ( ①)anything adults do. When the
uthor did something, his friend's son, Tyler, would do the same thing. However, Tyler
had a(の) about why the author kept a diary. The author has been keeping his
Taiary for a long time. The contents of the first several years, however, are too
affected for him to ( @ ) again.
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