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典型的な問題を１問解いてみましょう。２００７年の大問２です。
次の英文を読んで設問に答えなさい。
One of the questions I
was never able to answer about my dog Misha was perhaps the most
important, even the most interesting one. This was the question of Misha's
navigational skills. He had been travelling the streets of Cambridge* long
before I thought to go with him, and had probably memorized some
landmarks.* (1)But sometimes he seemed to travel without the aid of
landmarks, or at least not with the landmarks he had used to get to where
he was going, since once he had arrived at his destination, he might
easily take a different route home. Did he use the stars or the
position of the sun? Did he, like a carrier pigeon, hear the infrasound*
made by the Atlantic Ocean, so that he always knew which way was east? I
didn't know, and to investigate more deeply would have required an
experiment - blindfolding* him, for example. But that was not the nature
of our relationship.
I did learn two things, though, about
Misha's navigational ability. The first was that his skills were not
genetic, or not entirely so. (2)If they had been, then other huskies*
should have shared them. But I knew other Siberian huskies who could
not navigate, one of whom was Misha's wife, Maria. When they were
together, Misha decided the route for both of them. (3)That was not
easy, because she, young and enthusiastic, would go running ahead of him,
often in the wrong direction, requiring him to overtake her. Then, by
jumping at her, he would have to knock her in the shoulder to try to make
her turn. If after all his efforts she still wouldn't go where he wanted,
he would resign himself to following her.
Many another dog would
have obeyed her leader, but Maria had been a little spoiled by Misha, who
let her do whatever she wanted, even when he knew that what she wanted was
wrong. (4)That was delightful for Maria, but as a result she never
learned to find her own way. （後半省略）
Cambridge:
米国マサチューセッツ州東部の都市
landmark(s): 目印
infrasound:
人間の耳には聞こえない周波数の音
blindfolding＜blindfold:
目隠しをする
huskies＜husky: ハスキー犬
〔設 問〕
１.
下線部(1)を日本語に訳しなさい。
２.
下線部(2)を，"they"が何を指すか明らかにし，省略されていることを補って日本語に訳しなさい。
３.
下線部(3)を，"That"が何を指すか明らかにして日本語に訳しなさい。
（４〜７省略）
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