英検準2級プラスのリスニング無料練習 第49セット｜会話15問＋説明文15問【独自30台本・全訳・全解答】

Transcript: W: Is the technology talk still in Hall A? M: No. The speakers are being repaired, so it has moved to Hall C. W: Does it begin at two as planned? M: Yes, the time is unchanged.

正解：B. Hall C
根拠：moved to Hall C。
全文和訳：女：技術講演はAホール？男：音響装置の修理のためCホールへ移った。女：2時開始は変わらない？男：はい。

Transcript: M: Did you send our newspaper article to the printer? W: Not yet. The teacher noticed a wrong date in the interview, and I need to correct it. M: Please show me the final version before sending it.

正解：B. An interview date
根拠：wrong date in the interview。
全文和訳：男：新聞記事を印刷に送った？女：まだ。取材欄に誤った日付があり直す必要がある。男：送る前に見せて。

Transcript: W: I used to catch the shuttle in front of the museum. Is that still the stop? M: No, road work moved it to the east side of the park. The bus still runs every half hour. W: I’ll walk there.

正解：C. The east side of the park
根拠：moved it to east side of park。
全文和訳：女：シャトルは博物館前から乗れたけど今も？男：道路工事で公園東側へ変更。30分間隔は同じ。女：そちらへ行く。

Transcript: M: Did you check all three rain gauges? W: Yes, but one has a cracked cover and cannot be used. The technician will inspect it tomorrow. M: Then let’s record data from the other two.

正解：D. Two
根拠：other two。
全文和訳：男：雨量計3台確認した？女：うん、1台カバーが割れて使えない。明日技師が検査する。男：他の2台で記録しよう。

Transcript: W: Is tomorrow’s photography class at eleven? M: That was the original time. A corrected message was sent yesterday, and it now starts at ten thirty. W: I had better check that email.

正解：A. 10:30
根拠：now starts at ten thirty。
全文和訳：女：明日の写真講座は11時？男：旧時刻で、昨日訂正メールが届き今は10時半。女：メールを確認しなきゃ。

Transcript: M: I registered for the home book delivery service. Will the books arrive tomorrow? W: Your application isn’t confirmed yet. Wait for an email with a delivery date. M: I’ll check my messages later.

正解：B. An email confirming a delivery date
根拠：email with delivery date。
全文和訳：男：本の宅配へ登録した。明日届く？女：申請はまだ未確定で配達日の確認メールを待って。男：後でメールを見る。

Transcript: W: Can I borrow a camera for Saturday’s school event? M: Yes, after you complete the safety class. You also need to return it by Monday. W: I’ll take the class this afternoon.

正解：C. A safety class
根拠：after you complete safety class。
全文和訳：女：土曜の行事へカメラを借りられる？男：安全講習修了後に借りられ、月曜返却。女：今日午後に講習を受ける。

Transcript: M: Can we put the old photograph on our club website? W: We have permission to show it inside the school, but that doesn’t include public online use. M: I’ll contact the owner again.

正解：D. Ask for further permission
根拠：contact owner again for public online permission。
全文和訳：男：古写真を部のサイトに載せてよい？女：校内展示許可はあるけど一般向けのネット公開は含まれない。男：所有者に改めて連絡する。

Transcript: W: Is the ferry ticket nine hundred yen? M: That’s for adults. Students with school cards pay six hundred and fifty. W: I’ll show my card.

正解：A. 650 yen
根拠：students with cards pay 650 yen。
全文和訳：女：船の券は900円？男：大人料金で、学生証があれば650円。女：カードを出す。

Transcript: M: Did the class plant all forty seedlings? W: Five had damaged roots, so we planted only thirty-five. The other five will be inspected before we decide what to do. M: I’ll record the result.

正解：B. Thirty-five
根拠：40 minus 5＝35 planted。
全文和訳：男：苗40本全部植えた？女：5本の根が傷んでいて35本だけ植えた。残り5本は検査後に判断。男：記録する。

Transcript: W: I thought we were meeting at Central Station on Saturday. M: Our train now leaves from Riverside Station because of construction. Let’s meet there at eight fifteen. W: I’ll tell everyone.

正解：C. Riverside Station
根拠：meet at Riverside Station。
全文和訳：女：土曜は中央駅集合？男：工事のため列車は川辺駅発に変わり8時15分にそこ集合。女：皆に伝える。

Transcript: M: Can I watch the recorded science lesson now? W: The video is online, but the captions haven’t been checked. The version with verified captions will be ready tomorrow. M: I’ll wait.

正解：D. Tomorrow
根拠：ready tomorrow。
全文和訳：男：録画の理科授業は見られる？女：動画はオンラインだけど字幕が未点検。確認済み字幕版は明日完成。男：待つ。

Transcript: W: We printed seventy posters for the event. M: Fifteen have the wrong collection date, so we can use only fifty-five. W: Then we should reprint the others.

正解：A. Fifty-five
根拠：70−15＝55。
全文和訳：女：ポスター70枚印刷した。男：15枚は回収日が間違っているので55枚だけ使える。女：残りは刷り直そう。

Transcript: M: Is the audio tour available in English? W: Yes, and there’s a shorter version for younger visitors. Return the device to the desk before closing. M: I’ll take the shorter one for my sister.

正解：B. Shorter version
根拠：I’ll take the shorter one。
全文和訳：男：音声ツアーは英語で聞ける？女：はい。若い来場者向けの短い版もある。閉館前に機器返却。男：妹のため短い方にする。

Transcript: W: Is my place in the volunteer event confirmed? M: You completed the online form, but your signed permission slip is still missing. W: I’ll bring it tomorrow. M: We can confirm your place after checking it.

正解：C. A signed permission slip
根拠：signed permission slip still missing。
全文和訳：女：ボランティア企画の参加は確定した？男：ネット申請は済んだが署名入り許可書が未提出。女：明日持ってくる。男：確認後に確定できる。

Transcript: A town introduced a mobile library for residents living far from the main building. The van made three scheduled stops each week. In the first month, staff recorded two hundred book loans. The librarian explained that this was not the number of different readers, since some people borrowed several books or returned on more than one day. Before adding a fourth stop, the town will compare travel time, costs, and the number of unique readers served.

正解：B. Travel time, costs, and unique readers
根拠：compare time, costs, unique readers。
全文和訳：町は図書館本館から遠い住民向けに移動図書館を始め、週に予定停車3か所を回った。初月は貸出200回だったが、同じ人が複数冊借りたり何日も使ったりするため別々の読者200人を意味しない。4か所目の追加前に移動時間・費用・実利用者数を比較する。

Transcript: A museum received forty old night-sky photographs from a family. Staff confirmed the exact dates of thirty-one images, but the other nine had incomplete notes. The curator decided to describe these with approximate periods rather than invent exact years. The museum also checked whether the family had permitted online publication. Staff explained that photographs may be useful for research even when the exact dates or publication rights remain unknown.

正解：A. Nine
根拠：40−31＝9。
全文和訳：博物館は昔の星空写真40枚を受け取り、31枚の日付を確認したが9枚は不完全な記録だった。学芸員は架空の年を作らずおおよその時期と説明した。家族からのネット公開許可も確認し、年代や許可が未確定でも研究に役立つ場合があると説明した。

Transcript: A science club tested a new watering schedule in a school garden. For two weeks, students measured soil moisture at the same time each afternoon. The shaded plants usually needed less water than those in the sunny section. However, the two sections had different soil types. The teacher asked the club not to claim that shade alone caused the difference. They will repeat the trial with more similar conditions before proposing a permanent watering plan.

正解：B. Soil conditions differed between sections
根拠：soil types differed。
全文和訳：理科部は学校菜園の水やり計画を試した。2週間、毎日午後の同時刻に土壌水分を測り、日陰の植物は日なたより水が少なく済んだ。しかし土の種類も違ったため、日陰だけが原因とは断定せず、条件をそろえて再試験してから恒久的な水やり計画を提案する。

Transcript: Teenagers made a sound map of their neighborhood by measuring noise at a park, library, and train station. They visited each location on several days. The station was usually loudest, but it was quieter early in the morning. The teacher encouraged the group to record the time of every reading rather than label a place as always quiet or noisy. They planned to publish observations with clear limits on when they were collected.

正解：C. Observation times
根拠：record time of every reading。
全文和訳：若者たちは公園・図書館・駅の音量を数日にわたり測定し、音の地図を作った。駅は通常最も騒がしかったが早朝は静かな場合もあり、教師はいつも静か・騒がしいと決めず観測時刻を記録するよう求めた。収集時期の限界を明示して公開する予定だった。

Transcript: A community center offered a free class about sewing buttons and fixing small holes in clothes. Thirty people registered, while twenty-six attended. Before the class began, volunteers checked the clothing brought by participants. One jacket contained a damaged electrical heating element. The instructor told its owner not to repair it in the beginners’ class and to ask a qualified technician instead. She explained that recognizing dangerous problems is an important part of safe repair work.

正解：B. It involved a damaged electrical part
根拠：damaged electrical heating element。
全文和訳：地域センターはボタン付けと小穴修理の無料講座を開いた。30人登録し26人が出席。開始前に服を点検したところ電熱部品の壊れた上着があり、講師は初心者の講座で直さず専門技術者へ相談するよう指示した。危険を見分けることも安全な修理には必要だ。

Transcript: A public park prepared a route for visitors using wheelchairs. Several users tested the path before it opened. They found that one turn beside a fountain was too narrow, so staff changed the layout and tested it again. Officials said that positive feedback from a small group was useful but could not prove the route would be comfortable for every visitor. The park will collect broader feedback before approving the final design.

正解：B. A narrow turn beside the fountain
根拠：one turn too narrow; changed layout。
全文和訳：公園は車いす利用者向け経路を準備し、開設前に試してもらった。噴水脇の曲がり角が狭いと分かり配置を変更して再試験した。少人数からの良い意見は有益だが全来訪者に快適と証明するわけではなく、最終承認前に幅広い意見を集める。

Transcript: Students compared two small models that generated electricity in different ways. One used a hand-operated wheel, while the other used a solar panel. Indoors, the hand-operated model produced more power because the solar panel received little sunlight. The teacher explained that this result did not show the hand-operated system was always better. A second test outdoors was planned to compare the models under different conditions.

正解：A. It received little sunlight
根拠：solar panel received little sunlight。
全文和訳：生徒は手で回す車輪と太陽光パネルの発電模型を比較した。室内では日光が少なく手動模型の発電が多かった。教師はこれだけで手動が常に優れているといえないと説明し、条件を変えて屋外で再試験することにした。

Transcript: A school invited families to an international food exhibition. The first email said registration would begin at nine thirty. However, an extra safety inspection was needed, and the organizers sent a corrected email changing registration to ten. The exhibition itself would begin at ten thirty. Families were asked to enter through the east gate and bring their confirmation messages rather than rely on the old email.

正解：C. 10:00
根拠：corrected email changing registration to ten。
全文和訳：学校は国際食文化展示の案内を送り、最初のメールでは受付は9時半だった。追加安全点検が必要となり訂正メールで受付を10時へ変更し、展示開始は10時半とした。家族は東門から入り確認メールを持参するよう求められ、古いメールを使わないよう案内された。

Transcript: A local library recorded eighteen interviews with older residents about their town’s history. Only fourteen speakers agreed to share their voices on a public website. The remaining four recordings were kept privately while staff requested permission. The librarian explained that finishing a recording did not automatically give the library permission to publish it online. Even a written summary might require checking the conditions agreed with the speaker.

正解：A. Four
根拠：18 total−14 permitted＝4。
全文和訳：図書館は高齢住民の地域史取材を18件録音し、ネット公開に同意したのは14人だけ。残り4件は許可を待ち非公開とした。録音できたことが公開許可を意味するわけではなく、文章要約も話者と合意した条件を確認する必要があった。

Transcript: A teacher invited one hundred students to answer a questionnaire about reading habits. Sixty-five students responded. Among those respondents, thirty-nine said they read for at least twenty minutes a day. The teacher pointed out that thirty-nine was sixty percent of respondents, not sixty percent of all invited students. The class planned to ask some nonrespondents about their habits before generalizing the result.

正解：B. 60%
根拠：39÷65＝60%。
全文和訳：教師は100人に読書習慣の調査を依頼し65人が回答、そのうち39人が毎日20分以上読むと答えた。39は回答者の60％であって招待者全体の60％ではない。全体へ一般化する前に未回答者へも聞く予定。

Transcript: After receiving complaints about unclear street names, a town inspected public signs. Workers found twenty damaged signs and replaced twelve during the first week. The remaining eight still needed work. Staff posted temporary notices and updated the online map because printed maps could not all be changed immediately. Officials said another inspection was required before announcing that every damaged sign had been repaired.

正解：A. Eight
根拠：20 damaged−12 replaced＝8。
全文和訳：道路名が読みにくいとの苦情後、町は標識を点検し20枚に損傷があった。初週に12枚を交換、残り8枚は未作業。臨時案内とネット地図を更新したが紙地図はすぐ全て変えられず、完全修理発表前に追加点検が必要だった。

Transcript: A town tested a weekend bus between a train station and a science center. It recorded five hundred passenger trips in the first month. A reporter called this five hundred different people, but officials corrected the statement. The same passenger might make two trips in one day or travel on several weekends. The town will collect information about unique riders before deciding whether the service should continue.

正解：B. Trips were not the same as different riders
根拠：same passenger might make multiple trips。
全文和訳：町は駅と科学館間の週末バスを試験運行し初月に500乗車を記録した。記者は異なる500人と述べたが、同じ人が1日2回や複数週末に利用する場合があるので役人が訂正した。継続判断前に固有の乗客数を調べる。

Transcript: A school began a program allowing students to borrow musical instruments for home practice. Applicants were required to complete safety training and receive a confirmation message. During the first week, forty students registered, but only twenty-eight completed training. The music teacher explained that a registered student did not automatically have a confirmed instrument. Staff also needed to check that a suitable instrument was available before approving each loan.

正解：B. Safety training and a confirmation message
根拠：training and confirmation required。
全文和訳：学校は自宅練習用の楽器貸出を始め、申込者は安全研修と確認通知が必要だった。初週40人登録し28人だけ研修修了。登録しただけでは確定した楽器があるわけではなく、適切な在庫も職員が確認してから貸出承認する。

Transcript: A community food center asked volunteers to check labels on donated products. Some packages did not show complete ingredient information. The center held these products aside until trained staff could determine whether they were safe and could be labeled correctly. Organizers said a product should not be distributed simply because it looked new or undamaged. They recorded how many products were accepted and how many remained unavailable.

正解：A. They lacked complete ingredient information
根拠：did not show complete ingredient information。
全文和訳：地域の食品センターは寄付食品のラベルを確認し、原材料情報が不完全な品物は安全性と適切な表示が確認できるまで保留した。新品のように見えるだけでは配布せず、受入可能品と保留品を別々に記録した。

Transcript: Students measured the temperature of two schoolyard locations over ten days. The shaded place had a lower average reading, but one thermometer stood near a wall where there was little wind. The teacher asked students to place both instruments in more similar conditions and repeat the comparison. The class avoided claiming that shade was the only cause until additional data could be collected.

正解：A. Repeat tests in more similar conditions
根拠：place instruments more similarly and repeat。
全文和訳：生徒は校庭2地点で10日間気温を測り、日陰の平均が低かったが一方の温度計は風の少ない壁近くにあった。教師は測定条件をそろえて再試験させ、追加データまで日陰だけが原因だと断定しなかった。