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芸術と文学.

Art, Music & Literature

帰国子女・インターナショナルスクール生のための、デジタルSAT の無料単語教材。独学で進められます。

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使ってみる — 4問

おぼえたかどうかではなく、文に合う語を選べるかを試します。 選択肢はすべて、このテーマの語です。意味の遠い語は混ぜていません。 だから「よい意味か、わるい意味か」と「どのくらい強いか」で絞るのが、そのまま解き方になります。

  1. 01

    The composer Ilse Brandt opens her second symphony by asking eight brass players to hold unrelated notes at full volume for a full minute before the strings enter. Audiences at the premiere were not charmed. One listener wrote afterward that the opening was not music at all but a       — sixty seconds she endured with her hands pressed over her ears.

  2. 02

    When the botanist Margery Ruel died in 1908, her former student Theo Lind published twelve lines in her memory. Several composers asked to set the words to music; Lind refused every request, insisting that the lines be read in silence rather than sung. The       was nonetheless reprinted in nearly every scientific journal of the decade, and Lind never published another line of verse.

  3. 03

    A textbook publisher hired an anonymous writer to compress Vasili Orlan's nine-hundred-page novel into ninety pages for twelve-year-olds. The rewrite is plainly sincere — no joke is attempted anywhere in it, and the writer seems to have admired the book — yet Orlan's most careful scenes come out clumsy and false, and characters who had taken him decades to build are reduced to one trait apiece. Reviewers called the slim classroom edition a       and urged teachers to assign the original instead.

  4. 04

    When the Hallberg Quartet finished its program in Leipzig, the audience would not let the players leave: no stamping, no shouting, only steady clapping that neither swelled nor faded, for six full minutes. The cellist finally shrugged, and the four musicians sat down and played the scherzo a second time. Reviewers the next morning gave the evening's       more space than the program that had preceded it.

Art, Music & Literature — 19語19 words

このテーマの全語です。定義を隠して、 よい意味・わるい意味・中立の三つに分けてみるのが、いちばん効く使い方です。 分け間違えた語が、そのまま自分の弱点になります。

Every word in this theme. The best use of it is to cover the meanings and sort the list into positive, negative and neutral. Whichever ones you put in the wrong pile are exactly your weak spots.

内訳:よい意味 1語 / わるい意味 3語 / 中立 15語。 強さはこのテーマの中での相対です。テーマをまたいで比べる数字ではありません。

1 positive, 3 negative, 15 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.

語Word向き+/−強さStrength意味Meaning
anthology n0●a collection of selected writings or songs — 作品集
ballad n0●a slow song, usually about love — 物語の歌・スローな恋の歌
bard n0●a poet, often one who sings — 吟遊詩人
cacophony n−●●●a harsh, jarring mix of sounds — 耳障りな音cadence が音の流れそのものを指すのに対し、cacophony は不快さへの明確な非難です。cadence describes the flow of sound without judging it; cacophony is a verdict that the sound is harsh and unpleasant.
cadence n0●the rhythm or flow of sound — 調子・リズム
canvas n0●the cloth surface a painter works on — 絵を描く布
choreography n0●the arrangement of dance steps — 振り付け
chronicle n0●a written record of events in order — 年代記
crescendo n0●●a steady rise in volume or intensity — だんだん強く
dirge n0●●●a mournful song for the dead — 葬送の歌elegy より重く暗く、実際に葬儀で歌われる曲を指します。an elegy mourns in words, while a dirge is the heavier, darker song actually sung at the funeral.
elegy n0●●a poem or speech mourning the dead — 追悼の詩dirge が葬儀で歌う曲そのものなのに対し、elegy は死を悼む詩や文で、静かで格調があります。a dirge is the song performed at the funeral itself; an elegy is the quieter, more formal poem or speech mourning the dead.
encore n+●●a repeat performance demanded by the audience — アンコール
epistolary adj0●written in the form of letters — 書簡体の
expurgate v−●●to cut offensive passages from a text — 問題箇所を削除
modulate v0●to shift gradually from one state or key to another — 徐々に変える
palette n0●the range of colors an artist works with — 使う色の範囲
parody n0●●an imitation that mocks the original — 笑いを狙った真似travesty が必ず非難なのに対し、parody はジャンル名で、好意的な真似にも使えるため文脈で色が変わります。travesty always condemns, while parody just names the form of mocking imitation, so it can be affectionate or hostile depending on context.
tome n0●●a large, heavy book — 分厚い本
travesty n−●●●a grotesquely poor imitation — ひどい出来損ないparody がジャンル名にとどまるのに対し、travesty は真似として失敗していると切り捨てる語です。parody names a form of imitation; travesty judges one, calling it a grotesque failure at imitating the original.
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Words in Context 文脈から語を選ぶ・12問

おぼえた語を、実際の設問で選べるようにする手順です。向きと強さで絞る練習をここでします。