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SET 5 · 6.5–7.0 · 60 minutes

IELTS Reading 練習問題 — Set 5 解答・根拠

本番と同程度の分量・40問で取り組む、長文中心のフルテストです。

3 passages · 40 questions · Sushitan original

Reading Passage 1 · Questions 1–13

The Second Life of Urban Timber

Choose the correct heading, i–ix.

1. iii Treating the city as a source of material

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph A.

Evidence: cities are temporary forests

都市を資材の蓄積場所として捉える導入です。

2. v Testing an object with an uncertain history

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph C.

Evidence: visual grading ... moisture measurements, metal detection ... machine tests

履歴不明の木材を検査する段落です。

3. ii Why official approval remains inconsistent

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph D.

Evidence: accepted in one municipality may be rejected across the boundary

自治体ごとに承認が異なる点が中心です。

4. vi A design process that begins with stock

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph E.

Evidence: material is surveyed before the final design is fixed

在庫を先に見て設計する手順です。

5. vii Limits to the environmental claim

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph F.

Evidence: transporting ... can erase part of that advantage

環境上の利点に条件があると説明します。

6. iv Employment, heritage and safety

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph G.

Evidence: jobs ... heritage ... safety planning

雇用・文化的痕跡・安全を扱います。

7. ix A hierarchy rather than a total solution

Choose the correct heading for Paragraph H.

Evidence: a hierarchy ... retain ... recover ... recycle

全面的代替ではなく優先順位を提案しています。

Do the statements agree with the passage?

8. FALSE

Deconstruction is always cheaper than conventional demolition.

Evidence: the financial case varies sharply

費用上の優位は地域条件によって変わります。

9. FALSE

Reclaimed timber is automatically unsuitable for structural use.

Evidence: testing representative samples or using recovered timber

検査や安全側の評価により構造利用も可能です。

10. FALSE

Digital inventories remain accurate without active maintenance.

Evidence: databases quickly become inaccurate if ... the record [is not] updated

更新しなければ不正確になります。

Questions 11–13

Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Codes mainly assume that new products come with 11. certificates. Long-distance 12. transporting can reduce the environmental benefit of reuse. The author says the main shortage is effective 13. coordination.

11. certificates
Evidence: supplied with certificates
12. transporting
Evidence: transporting ... over a great distance
13. coordination
Evidence: limiting resource ... coordination
Reading Passage 2 · Questions 14–26

How Maps Learned to Show Movement

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

14. creating readable symbols for flows

What was the central challenge described in Paragraph A?

Evidence: a graphic language capable of showing direction, volume and change

データを読める形で動きとして示すことが課題でした。

15. to illustrate how spatial patterns guide further inquiry

Why does the writer discuss clusters on public-health maps?

Evidence: directing investigation ... one element in an argument

地図は原因を確定せず、追加調査を導く役割です。

16. Analysts sometimes interpreted sparse data differently.

What problem affected early weather maps?

Evidence: might connect the same observations differently ... stations were scarce

観測点の少なさにより判断が分かれました。

17. Their visual appeal may exceed their explanatory value.

What is the writer’s view of animated maps?

Evidence: spectacular ... memorable while leaving users unable to answer a basic question

印象的でも理解に結びつかない場合があります。

Which paragraph contains the following information?

18. Paragraph D

a warning that apparent exactness may include expert judgement

Evidence: apparent precision could hide judgement

気象図の精密さに分析者の判断が含まれます。

19. Paragraph E

a type of journey likely to disappear during data reduction

Evidence: could erase short local journeys, particularly walking trips

短い徒歩移動が消える例です。

20. Paragraph B

a visual variable used to represent amount

Evidence: width varied according to quantity

線幅が量を表します。

21. Paragraph G

an explanation of why current-looking information may include forecasts

Evidence: a blend of observations ... and predictions

リアルタイム表示にも予測が含まれます。

22. Paragraph C

a case in which mapped concentration can have more than one explanation

Evidence: could merely reflect a densely populated district

疾病集中には人口密度という別説明があります。

Questions 23–26

Complete the summary. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Transport surveys produced large 23. origin–destination tables, so planners combined areas into zones. Animation can make it hard to compare different 24. moments. Modern services estimate places where there is no 25. sensor. Good maps help readers examine selectivity by explaining uncertainty and 26. missing data.

23. origin–destination
Evidence: origin–destination tables
24. moments
Evidence: comparing moments
25. sensor
Evidence: where no sensor exists
26. missing data
Evidence: explanations of missing data
Reading Passage 3 · Questions 27–40

The Argument for Productive Forgetting

Do the statements agree with the views of the writer?

27. NO

A memory system that retained all details equally would necessarily support better decisions.

Evidence: might be less capable of abstraction, updating and choice

完全保持が意思決定を良くするとは限りません。

28. YES

The reconstructive character of memory has both disadvantages and benefits.

Evidence: vulnerable to error, but it also permits old knowledge to be used

欠点と利点の両方が述べられます。

29. NO

Researchers agree that direct inhibition fully explains intentional forgetting.

Evidence: Researchers disagree

研究者の見解は一致していません。

30. NO

Clinical treatment normally seeks to delete traumatic facts completely.

Evidence: not to erase a factual record

治療目的は事実記憶の消去ではありません。

31. YES

New employees may notice assumptions that long-serving staff overlook.

Evidence: New staff sometimes ask basic questions that insiders stopped noticing

本文の言い換えです。

32. NOT GIVEN

All cloud-storage companies now apply automatic time limits to files.

Evidence: Designers increasingly offer deletion controls and time limits

すべての企業が適用しているとはありません。

Questions 33–40

Complete the summary. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Forgetting may support 33. abstraction by allowing a broad category to replace countless details. Similar memories create 34. interference, while adaptation can require old habits to be 35. suppressed. Remembering is influenced by present 36. goals. In organisations, memory can preserve accountability but also outdated 37. procedures. Digital preservation may make the 38. authoritative version hard to identify. The author favours a 39. flexible relationship between retention and revision, provided selection remains open to 40. scrutiny.

33. abstraction
Evidence: capable of abstraction
34. interference
Evidence: Interference provides
35. suppressed
Evidence: must suppress
36. goals
Evidence: regulated by goals
37. procedures
Evidence: preserve procedures
38. authoritative
Evidence: authoritative version
39. flexible
Evidence: a flexible relationship
40. scrutiny
Evidence: open to scrutiny