Unit2. Our Zoo
Jane’s class is going to visit the zoo tomorrow.Our town has a big zoo with lots of animals in it. There are some beautiful tigers and two old lions. Lions and tigers are fierce animals, so when they are in zoos, they live in strong cages. They eat a lot of meat every day.
There are also two big elephants and a baby one. Jane wants to ride on one of the elephants. The elephants are tame and kind. They eat a lot of grass every day. They like children because they sometimes give them bread and bananas. Elephants like bananas very much.
In our zoo there are also brown bears, black bears and white bears. They stand on their back legs, hold up their arms and ask for food. They like cake very much.
There is also a Children’s Corner in our zoo. There children ride horses and donkeys and watch the monkeys. The monkeys are very funny. They climb up ropes and jump down again and play with each other like small children. They love nuts and bananas and bread. Jane is going to take a basket to the zoo with stale bread, cake, nuts and a bunch of bananas.

words
fierce 獰猛な
tame おとなしい、従順な
stale 古い
Exercise A
Choose the sentence which contains a word of the same meaning as enclosed with ( ):
⑴ Our town has a big zoo (with) lots of animals in it.
(a)Please write your answers with a pen.
(b)Jane has been in bed with a cold for three days.
(c) I saw a woman with a shopping basket in her hand.
答え　　　　　→(c)
⑵There are two big elephants and a baby (one).
(a)Let’s leave at half past one.
(b)One must do one’s best in everything.
(c)”Will you bring me that dictionary?” “This one?”
答え　　　　　→(c)

Exercise B
Find words in the story which mean the opposite of:
(a)hate →like
(b)fresh →stale
(c)wild →tame
(c)big →baby
(e)front →back

Exercise C
Complete the story,using the correct words given in brackets:
(a.with b.tigers c.ride d. so e. wild)
Jane’s class is going to visit the zoo tomorrow.Our town has a big zoo with lots of animals in it. There are some beautiful (1)and two lions. They are (2)animals (3)they live in strong cages.
There are two big elephants and a baby one, and some bears. Jane wants to (4)one of the elephants.
In the Children’s Corner , children ride horses and donkeys and watch monkeys. Jane is going to the zoo (5)stale bread, cake, nuts and a bunch of bananas, because the animals like them very much.

答え
⑴b
⑵e
⑶d
⑷c
⑸a



海で泳いだ思い出はたくさんあります。海に近いこともあり中学生の夏休みは毎日歩いて泳ぎに行きました。クーラーの普及していない時代、暑い夏は泳いで乗り切っていました。
高校では1年生の時、山口県での臨海学校合宿で、最終日４キロ遠泳しました。金槌の子も泳げるようになっていました。先生達が数槽ボートで伴走　。泳いだ後の甘露飴がことの他美味しかった。
中学生の時、宮島の海で思わぬ深みで慌てて溺れ、通りかかった家族連れのボートに助けられたこともありました。最初ふざけていると勘違いされ、命拾いした怖い思い出でした。

動物園でも遊園地でもなくサーカスで、象の背中に乗った思い出があります。