おじぎ草さんの おぼえた日記 - 2024年4月27日(土)

‘Intermediate Comprehension Topics’ by Oxford University Pressを学習したいと思います。高校1年以上のReading またはRapid Reading の教材です。簡単な単語で辞書をあまり引くことなくスラスラ読めるを目的に選びました。

Unit 1 The Small Man’s Ducks
The train was rather full. At the last station before the frontier, a small man with a fat stomach got in, carrying a big paper package. The feet of two ducks could be seen outside the paper. The man found an empty seat and put the package in the middle of the floor.
The other passengers knew that people were not allowed to take food across the frontier, so they were very surprised that the little man was foolish enough to leave the duck’s legs where they could seen.
When the train reached the frontier, a policeman came in to look at the passengers’ passports and to examine their luggage. Of course, he saw the package with the ducks’ legs at once and said, ‘ Whose package is that? I shall have to take it away from the owner. Nobody’s allowed to take food out of the country.’
‘ We’ll, then,’ said the small man with that fat stomach,’ hurry up and take it. We want to get home. ‘ The policeman took the package and went.
At the next station, when they were safely across the frontier, the small man got up, smiled at the other passengers and said, ‘I hope that they’ll enjoy the duck’s’ feet. The rest of the package had nothing but rubbish in it.’
Then he opened his coat and pointed to another paper package. It was tied tightly over his stomach, which was not really fat. ‘ I have the rest of the two ducks in this package, ‘ he said.

Words
rubbish ゴミ
rather. かなり
frontier 国境

Exercise A
Write this story, putting one word in each empty place:
A small man with a fat stomach got into a train and put his package in the (m )
of the floor. At the frontier a policeman came in and asked the passengers (w )package it was. The man didn’t say that it was his. The policeman took it (a ), because nobody was allowed to take food out of the country.
When they were safely across the frontier, the small man smiled at the passengers and said, ‘ I have the (r )of the ducks in another package under my coat.’
He knew that people were not allowed to take food across the frontier. He was not really a (f )man.

答え
middle
whose
away
rest
fat


列車に乗っていて国境にさしかかる、ヨーロッパだなと思いました。