次の英文は,中学生の浩 (Hiroshi) , 高校生の直人 (Naoto) とサイクリング (cycling)に出か
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けたときのことを書いたものです。 あとの (1)~(6) の問いに答えなさい。
Naoto is a high school student and lives near my house. I like him
and call him Nao-san. He loves road bikes and cycling.
do
One day last September, I asked Nao-san to go cycling together. He
smiled and said, "OK. Next Saturday, I'm going to go to the lake on the
road bike
5 mountain by bike. It's a very beautiful place. Have you ever (be)
there before?" "No," I answered. "Then you should go with me. Do you
wwolf, the you biaya ush.caufis ou I bas zbramvinkamue ain't
have a road bike?" "No, Nao-san. My bike isn't a road bike." He said, “I will use my father's road bike, so you
can use mine. Let's enjoy cycling together."
TH T
Saturday came. "Hiroshi, first, we're going to go through the town. Let's go." Nao-san and I started our trip.
10 About an hour later, we went out of the town and took our first rest. I said, “Your road bike is very nice. I can
ym a lenti
go fast on your bike. It's not so hard.” He answered, “That's good. It was (A) to go through the town.
But from now it will be (B) to go up the mountain. We should take two or three rests before getting to
the lake." I said, "I'll be fine when we go up the mountain, so I won't need any rests."
UGLER
TTS
Nao-san and I started to go up the mountain. Cycling with him) started to become harder. I really wanted to
15 rest, but I couldn't say it to Nao-san, so we didn't stop. About two hours later, we could see the lake at last. He
said, "We'll get to the lake soon." Suddenly, my legs couldn't move because I became so tired, and I fell over.
at last. He
"Are you OK?" Nao-san asked. "Yes, but I made a big scratch on your road bike. I'm sorry, Nao-san.” “Don't
worry about it." Then, we took a long rest. After that, we walked to the lake with our bikes.
suddenly
clear blue sky 青く澄んだ空
When Nao-san and I came to the lake, I was very tired and couldn't say anything. He 2 (begin) to talk. "You
20 did very well." "No, I didn't." "Listen to me, Hiroshi. When we start something, sometimes we can't do it well
at first. Then what should we do?" I didn't say anything. I was just looking at his road bike. There were many
old scratches around the big new one. They were not all made at one time. "I understand!" The scratches
taught me the answer. "Try it many times. Then we can do it well!" "That's right," Nao-san said with a smile.
"Can I go cycling with you again?" I asked. "Sure. Let's go back home now."
We started to go back home under the clear blue sky.
Elake
きゅうけい
rest
休憩、休憩する
at last ついに,ようやく
fell over: fall over
(転ぶ) の過去形 scratch
leg (s)
[静岡]
