Class 11 Final Class

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How are you? Any Questions?

Final Winter Class

Multiple Choice

What do astronauts do before having a party in space?

• They go shopping

• They plan it

• They clean

• They look at the sun

Have you seen Titanic? What did you think?

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What's your favorite movie? Why?

Most people know that the titanic sank because it hit an iceberg.

However, Donald Olson, an expert in physics, and a team of scientists have examined the role the moon may have played in the disaster.

下線部（１）について、その具体的な内容を本文に即して日本語で説明しなさい。

月が地球に異常なほど接近したため、その引力によって潮位が上昇し、通常より多くの氷山がゲリーンランドから分離して、タイタニック号に達したこと。

Since the Titanic sunk in the early hours of April 15, 1912, resulting in great loss of life, scholars have puzzled over why CDaptain Edward Smith was not worried about warnings of icebergs nearby.

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Why had such a large number of icebergs floated into the shipping lanes so far south that night?

Olson and his team investigated one theory that an unusually close approach by the moon in January, 1912 may have produced very high tides.

As a result, far more icebergs than usual managed to separate from Greenland, and floated, still fully grown, south in the shipping lanes.

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Olson said a "once in many lifetimes" event occurred on January 4, 1912, when the moon and sun lined up in such a way that their gravitational pulls increased each other.

Multiple Choice

下線部（２）はどのような意味か、次の中から最も適切なものを１つ選びなさい。

• 多くの命が失われた出来事

• 何世代にもわたって完成された事業

• 何千年に一度の出来事

• 何人もの人々がかつて経験した出来事

At the same time, the moon's approach to Earth that January was the closeset it had been in 1,400 years.

The point of closest approach occurred within six minutes of the full moon.

On top of that, the Earth's closest approach to the sun in year had happened just the previous day.

Multiple Choice

下線部（３）の内容の説明として最も適切なものを１つずつ選びなさい。

• In addition to

• Positioned just above

• Supported by

• Immediately before

"This arrangement of events increased the moon's tide-raising power ot the maximum," Olson said.

Multiple Choice

下線部（4）の内容の説明として最も適切なものを１つずつ選びなさい。

• gathering of parties

• schedule of actions

• assembly of people

• combination of factors

Olson's research determined that to reach the shipping lanes by mid-April (must/ the Titanic/ that/ the iceberg / into/ have/ crashed) broken off from Greenland in January, 1912.

Olson's research determined that to reach the shipping lanes by mid-April the iceberg that the Titanic crashed into must have broken off from Greenland in January, 1912.

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The team's Titanic research may justify Captain Smith's choices by showing that he had a good excuse for reacting so casually to a report of ice in the ship's path.

5) Please translate into Japanese.

5) このチームのタイタニック号研究は、船の進路にある氷山の報告に対するスミス船長の不用意な対応に関して正当な理由があったことを示すことにより、彼の選択を正当化するかもしれない。

"The probability of all these variables lining up in just the way they did was, well, hard to imagine," he concluded.

Multiple Choice

次の１－３の英文に続けるのに最も適切なものを１つずつ選びなさい。

Captain Edward Smith was assigned to the Titanic because...

• 1) he was president...

• 2) he had spent many years...

• 3) he was the oldest...

• 4) he was interested...

Multiple Choice

次の１－３の英文に続けるのに最も適切なものを１つずつ選びなさい。

Olson believes Captain Smith may have reacted calmly to the report of icebergs because...

• 1) the Titanic...

• 2) he thought they would...

• he heard that only...

• 4) the reports said the icebergs...

Multiple Choice

次の１－３の英文に続けるのに最も適切なものを１つずつ選びなさい。

According to Olson, the chances of such an accident happening would have been...

• 1) planned in great detail.

• 2) pictured clearly.

• 3) difficult to predict.

• 4) scientifically mapped.

Thank you for this week! Any final questions?

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Thank you for this week! Any final questions?

What will you do over winter vacation?

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What will you do over winter vacation?