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次の英文を読んで、あとの(1)~(3)の問いに答えなさい。('13 神奈川県)
Brian is a high school student from America. He joins a *volunteer club at school.
Last Sunday he went to a "nursing home with his friends to teach the old people living
there about computers. Mr. Doi, one of the old people there, is talking with Brian in a
room at the nursing home.
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5 Mr. Doi: Hello, I am Kazuo Doi. Nice to meet you. Thank you for coming today.
Nice to meet you, too. My name is Brian. What can I do for you, Mr. Doi?
Brian
Mr. Doi: Can you teach me how to send e-mails, Brian?
Brian
Mr Doi :
Brian
Of course, I can. Do you want to send an e-mail to anyone?
Yes. One of my friends lives in a nursing home in Hokkaido. I have not seen
her for a long time, but she sent me a "postcard last summer. She wrote her
*e-mail address on the postcard. I want to send her an e-mail to say "Hello,"
but I don't know how to do it.
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: Don't worry, Mr. Doi. It is not difficult to send an e-mail.
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Two days later, Brian and his friend Yumi are talking in their classroom.
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Brian
Yumi
Brian
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20 Yumi
: Brian, I hear you went to a nursing home last Sunday, right?
:
Yes. I went there to do *volunteer work with my friends.
: That's great. What did you do there?
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We taught the old people living there about computers. They were very glad
to learn how to use computers.
What did you teach them about computers?
I taught some old people how to send e-mails. Mr. Doi was one of them and
Brian
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his English was good. Read this e-mail from him. He sent it to me yesterday.
Brian and Yumi are reading the e-mail from Mr. Doi.
Hello, Brian,
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living here enjoy it.
I am sending this e-mail with a picture of me *in front of a
microphone."
Her e-mail was *encouraging to me. Now I have found an important thing to me. It
is to try new things. When I find a new thing to try, I will send you an e-mail again.
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After reading the e-mail from Mr. Doi, Yumi and Brian are talking again.
Yumi
Mr. Doi enjoys *communication by e-mail.
Brian
Yes. I'm very happy to hear that.
Yumi
You did a good thing, Brian.
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Yumi
Brian
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Brian
Yumi
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Yumi
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Thank you for coming last Sunday. Do you remember my friend who sent me a
postcard with her e-mail address? After I sent her an e-mail, she sent me an e-mail
back soon. Using e-mail is a lot of fun.
In her e-mail she said, "Now I am trying a new thing in my nursing home. I am *in
charge of an announcement over the PA system for 10 minutes in the morning. During
this time, I read the *newspaper of the day and make some *comments. Many people
Yumi
Thank you, Yumi. I went to the nursing home to teach the old people there
about computers, but I also learned something there.
: What is it, Brian?
Mr. Doi knew his friend was in charge of an announcement over the PA system,
and then he started to think about trying a new thing, too.
I know. Mr. Doi says, "encouraging" in his e-mail.
Right. When I taught him how to send e-mails, he said, "I have wanted to
learn a lot of things. Using e-mail is one of them."
I see. You want to say the e-mail from his friend made him more *positive,
right?
That's right. First, Mr. Doi learned how to send e-mails and wrote an e-mail
to his friend. Next, he got an e-mail from his friend and knew his friend was
trying a new thing. Now Mr. Doi ( ) to him. Mr. Doi thinks that it is to
try new things. We can say it is good to know how our friends are doing.
It is wonderful to *communicate with other people, Brian.
: I think so, too. Communicating with other people can make people more
positive. I learned that from volunteer work in the nursing home.
: I hope that Mr. Doi can find a new thing to try. Please tell me when you get
an e-mail from him again.
(注) volunteer club ボランティアクラブ nursing home 老人ホーム send〜 〜を送る
postcard 絵はがき e-mail address 電子メールアドレス
(約 685 語)
volunteer work ボランティア活動
in charge of an announcement over the PA system 館内放送を担当して
comments
コメント
in front of a microphone マイクの前の
communication by e-mail 電子メールによるコミュニケーション
communicate with ~ ~とコミュニケーションをとる
newspaper
encouraging 励みになる
positive 前向きな
