促しと妨げ.

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

   In her final year at the teachers' college, the reformer Mattie Owens held no office and could impose no penalty on anyone who ignored her; her authority was entirely that of the platform. She never pleaded with anyone and never asked a favor. Witnesses describe her leaning over the lectern, her voice rising until it filled the hall, to       the young instructors to carry free evening classes into the mill towns — pressing them not for her own sake, but for the sake of children she would never meet.

   AbeseechBcajoleCcoerceDexhort

2. 02

   For eleven years the machinist Julian Prade could not build a single engine of his own design. A contract he had signed at nineteen assigned every improvement he might ever make to his former employer, and the courts upheld it in full. Prade wanted nothing more than to work, and no fear of loss ever cooled that wish. The agreement did not merely slow him; its effect was to       him completely, and the engines he sketched in those years exist only on paper.

   AdeterBencumberCfetterDinhibit

3. 03

   The state charter drafted in 1817 contains a single clause whose effect lasted a century. Before any territorial legislature had met, before any banker had petitioned, the clause barred those bodies from ever granting a bank charter: the question could not be introduced, debated, or voted on at all. Later reformers complained that the framers had not waited to defeat such proposals as they arose, nor put down the agitation that followed them, but had chosen to       them from the outset.

   AfoilBforestallCprecludeDquell

4. 04

   When Ines Barros announced her plan to winter alone on the ice shelf, no rule stood in her way; the institute, which had no hold on her funding, threatened nothing and forbade nothing. Danger had never moved her, and nothing she read that autumn frightened her. It was a colleague's letters — three of them, each patiently working through the arithmetic of fuel and daylight — that finally managed to       her from going: by the third she had granted the argument and changed her own mind. She spent that winter in Lisbon instead, writing up the data she already had.

   AconstrainBdeterCdissuadeDinhibit

Urging, Restraint & Obstruction — 27語27 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 4語 ／ わるい意味 7語 ／ 中立 16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。

4 positive, 7 negative, 16 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.