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自然と環境.

Nature, Land & Environment

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

    Over eleven months of night surveys, Meera Anand's team never once recorded their study animal, a small slow-moving primate, on the forest floor. It feeds, sleeps, and rears its young among the branches, crossing gaps by stretching from one limb to the next rather than leaping or gliding — a thoroughly       life that leaves the animal nearly helpless on open ground.

  2. 02

    When European crews provisioned the island in the sixteenth century, they set a few pigs ashore and sailed on. Their descendants now number in the thousands and churn up the forest floor as they root for tubers. Biologists who survey the herds are deliberate about calling them      : every animal traces back to escaped livestock, not to any population the island carried before the ships came.

  3. 03

    On paper the delta restoration was a two-year job. In practice the engineers spent six years in a       of overlapping permits, each review barred from starting until some other agency had closed its own file. Nothing about those years was dramatic; nothing about them moved.

  4. 04

    Soil scientists have long puzzled over the dark earths scattered through the central Amazon. The pale clay around them takes a plow as readily as any other soil; the problem is never whether it can be farmed but for how long, since a garden cleared from it fails within three seasons. The dark patches, by contrast, are still extraordinarily       centuries after they were made: a single plot yields harvest after harvest with no fertilizer at all, and the yields show no sign of falling off.

Nature, Land & Environment — 17語17 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 3語 / わるい意味 4語 / 中立 10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。

3 positive, 4 negative, 10 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
aerial adj0●having to do with the air — 空中の
agriculture n0●the practice of farming — 農業
aquatic adj0●living in or relating to water — 水生の
arable adj0●fit for growing crops — 耕作可能な
arboreal adj0●relating to trees — 樹上の木の上で暮らすことを指します。terrestrial は地表で暮らすこと全般です。arboreal means living up in the trees; terrestrial covers anything that lives on the ground.
arid adj0●●extremely dry — 乾燥した気候が乾いているという事実だけを述べます。desolate は生命感のない荒涼さまで含みます。arid states only the fact that a place is dry; desolate adds that it is empty and lifeless.
desolate adj−●●●empty, bleak, and lifeless — 荒涼とした
fecund adj+●●●richly productive — 肥沃な生産力そのものの豊かさを指します。verdant は緑の見た目、arable は耕作に適するかどうかです。fecund is about how much a place actually produces, verdant is about how green it looks, and arable is only about whether crops can be grown there.
feral adj−●●wild, having escaped domestication — 野生化した一度飼われたものが野生に戻った状態です。indigenous は元からその土地にいることを指します。feral describes an animal that was domesticated and has gone back to the wild; indigenous describes what was native to the place all along.
forage v0●to search around for food — 食料を探す
indigenous adj0●native to a place — 土着の
maelstrom n−●●●a violent whirlpool; any churning turmoil — 大渦、大混乱
morass n−●●a swamp; any situation that bogs you down — 泥沼抜け出せない停滞を表します。maelstrom は激しく渦巻く混乱です。a morass holds you stuck and going nowhere; a maelstrom is violent, churning motion.
precipice n0●●●a sheer cliff face — 断崖
terrestrial adj0●relating to land or the earth — 陸生の
verdant adj+●●green with growing plants — 青々とした
zephyr n+●a gentle breeze — そよ風
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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。