英検準2級プラスのリスニング無料練習 第45セット｜会話15問＋物語・説明文15問【独自30台本・全和訳】

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W: I bought a ticket for the front row, but the theater has changed the seating plan.
M: Did they move you to the back?
W: No, to the second row. The performance still starts at seven.

正解：B. In the second row
根拠：to the second row。開演時刻は不変。
全文和訳：女：最前列の券を買ったけど劇場が座席配置を変えたの。男：後ろに移された？女：いいえ、2列目よ。開演は7時のまま。

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M: Did the club rent three tents for Saturday’s trip?
W: We reserved three, but one was damaged. The shop is giving us two large tents instead.
M: Will there be enough space?
W: Yes, each holds six people.

正解：C. Two
根拠：two large tents instead。予約数3と利用数2を区別。
全文和訳：男：土曜のキャンプにテント3つ借りた？女：予約は3つだけど1つ壊れ、代わりに大きな2つを出してくれる。男：十分な場所はある？女：うん、各6人入るから。

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W: Are you speaking first in tomorrow’s English presentation?
M: I was supposed to, but Yuki asked to go before me. I will speak second.
W: I’ll be third, then.

正解：C. Yuki
根拠：Yuki asked to go before me。man is second.。
全文和訳：女：明日の英語発表は最初に話すの？男：そのはずだったけどユキが先に話すことになり、僕は2番目だよ。女：なら私は3番目ね。

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M: Can I sign up for the cooking class this Sunday?
W: The class is on Sunday, but registration closes at noon on Friday.
M: Then I’ll complete the form today.

正解：A. Friday at noon
根拠：registration closes at noon on Friday。開催日とは異なる。
全文和訳：男：日曜の料理教室に申し込める？女：開催は日曜だけど申込は金曜正午締切よ。男：じゃあ今日申請する。

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W: The experiment table near the window is free. Shall we use it?
M: The staff asked visitors not to use that table because a sensor is being repaired. The table near the door is available.
W: Let’s go there.

正解：B. The one by the door
根拠：table near the door is available。窓側は修理中。
全文和訳：女：窓際の実験台が空いているけど使う？男：センサーの修理中で利用不可だって。ドアの近くの台は使えるよ。女：そちらへ行こう。

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M: Should I send the updated concert details to the performers?
W: The performers received them yesterday. Please email the ticket holders instead.
M: I’ll do that right now.

正解：C. Ticket holders
根拠：Please email the ticket holders instead。
全文和訳：男：演奏者へ更新情報を送ろうか？女：演奏者は昨日受け取ったよ。代わりにチケット購入者へメールして。男：今送るよ。

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W: Does the green train still stop at Oak Street?
M: No, it skips that station now. Take the blue train and get off at Oak Street.
W: Thanks for telling me.

正解：D. The blue train
根拠：Take the blue train … Oak Street。
全文和訳：女：緑の列車は今もオーク通り駅に停車する？男：もう通過するよ。青の列車で降りればいい。女：ありがとう。

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M: The school concert begins at five thirty, doesn’t it?
W: That was the old time. It now starts at six because the hall is being cleaned.
M: I’ll tell the parents.

正解：C. At 6:00
根拠：now starts at six。
全文和訳：男：演奏会は5時半開始だよね？女：それは前の時刻で、清掃のため6時開始になったの。男：保護者に伝える。

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W: Has the teacher approved our request to use Room Four?
M: Not yet. He said he’ll decide after checking tomorrow’s schedule.
W: Then we shouldn’t print the room number on our posters.

正解：B. It is still awaiting a decision
根拠：Not yet … he’ll decide after checking。
全文和訳：女：4号室の利用申請は先生に承認された？男：まだ。明日の予定を確認してから決めるって。女：それならポスターに部屋番号を書くべきじゃないね。

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M: How many photographs did you take during the interview?
W: Twenty-four, but I deleted six that were too dark. I kept eighteen.
M: Those should be enough for the article.

正解：C. Eighteen
根拠：24－6＝18 kept。
全文和訳：男：取材で写真を何枚撮った？女：24枚だけど暗い6枚を消したから18枚残った。男：記事には十分だね。

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W: Can I return this book at the entrance desk?
M: The desk is closed for painting. Please use the return box next to the elevator.
W: I see it. Thank you.

正解：A. In the return box near the elevator
根拠：return box next to the elevator。
全文和訳：女：この本は入口窓口で返せる？男：塗装のため窓口は閉鎖中。エレベーターの隣の返却箱を使って。女：あった、ありがとう。

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M: Should we bring sandwiches on the trip to the art center?
W: Lunch will be provided, but please bring your own water bottle.
M: Got it. I’ll leave the sandwiches at home.

正解：B. A water bottle
根拠：bring your own water bottle。
全文和訳：男：美術センターの遠足にサンドイッチを持っていく？女：昼食は提供されるけど水筒は持参して。男：分かった。サンドイッチは家に置いていく。

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W: Is the bus to the airport still canceled?
M: The morning buses resumed today, but the late-night service is still suspended.
W: Then I’ll take an afternoon bus.

正解：C. The late-night bus
根拠：late-night service is still suspended。
全文和訳：女：空港行きのバスはまだ運休？男：朝の便は今日再開したけど深夜便は引き続き停止中。女：なら午後の便を使う。

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M: Did you see three kinds of birds at the pond?
W: We heard three kinds, but we could clearly see only two kinds.
M: I hope you see the third one next time.

正解：D. Two
根拠：could clearly see only two kinds。聞いた数と見た数を区別。
全文和訳：男：池で鳥を3種類見た？女：3種類の声は聞いたけど、はっきり見えたのは2種類だけ。男：次は3種類目も見られるといいね。

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W: Do students have to pay 900 yen for the workshop?
M: That’s the adult price. Students pay 600 yen if they show a school card.
W: I have mine, so I’ll pay 600 yen.

正解：B. 600 yen
根拠：student cardなら600 yen。
全文和訳：女：講座は学生も900円？男：それは大人料金で、学生証を示せば600円。女：持っているから600円払う。

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A school photography club found an old camera in a storage room. The students wanted to use it for a history project, but its battery cover was broken. A teacher asked them not to turn it on until a technician checked it. The technician repaired the cover on Thursday, but the camera still needed a final safety test. The club decided to borrow another camera for Friday’s project instead of using the repaired one immediately. The students will try the old camera after the safety check is completed.

正解：A. The old camera had not passed its final safety test
根拠：still needed a final safety test。修理と利用許可は別。
全文和訳：学校写真部が倉庫で古いカメラを見つけ歴史学習に使おうとしたが、電池ふたが壊れていた。教師は技師の点検前に電源を入れないよう指示。技師は木曜にふたを直したが最終安全検査は未了だった。金曜の活動には別のカメラを借り、検査が終わった後に古いカメラを試す予定だ。

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A neighborhood group organized a free bicycle-check event. Sixty residents registered online. On the day, forty-eight people arrived, and volunteers checked forty-two bicycles. Six visitors came to ask questions but did not bring bicycles. The group received useful feedback about a busy intersection nearby. However, the volunteers did not promise that the town would change the road. The town office will study the comments before making any decision.

正解：B. Forty-two
根拠：checked forty-two bicycles。
全文和訳：地域団体は無料の自転車点検会を実施した。60人が登録し48人が出席、点検された自転車は42台。6人は質問のみで自転車を持参していなかった。近くの交差点に関する意見も集まったが、団体は町が道路を変えると約束したわけではなく、役場が意見を検討して判断する。

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Students recorded short stories written by older residents. They finished ten recordings, but only seven could be published online because the other three writers had not yet given permission. The teacher explained that completing a recording and receiving permission to share it were different steps. The school will ask the remaining writers again next week. For now, only the seven approved recordings are available on the library website.

正解：C. Seven
根拠：only the seven approved recordings。
全文和訳：生徒は高齢住民が書いた短い物語を10本録音したが、公開許可があるのは7本だけ。残り3本は作者の許可がなく掲載できない。教師は録音完成と公開許可は別段階と説明し、来週再確認する予定。現在図書館サイトで聞けるのは承認済み7本だけだ。

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A small ferry company planned to add an early-morning boat between two islands. Engineers tested the boat and found that a navigation light needed replacing. The original start date was June 3, but the company postponed service until June 10. Tickets for the first week were not canceled; passengers could move their bookings to a later departure. The company said the service would begin only after the final safety check was completed.

正解：D. June 10
根拠：postponed service until June 10。
全文和訳：フェリー会社は2島間に早朝便を新設する予定だったが、試験で航海灯の交換が必要と分かった。開始日を6月3日から6月10日へ延期した。最初の週の切符は全て中止扱いではなく、後の便に変更できる。最終安全点検完了後に運行を始める。

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A school library began sending digital notices instead of printing every announcement. Before the change, staff used about four hundred sheets of paper each month for notices. During the first month of the trial, they used two hundred fifty sheets. The library was pleased, but the teacher said that other school activities also used paper, so these numbers did not prove a reduction in the school’s total paper consumption. Staff will keep separate records for each type of printing.

正解：A. Digital notices
根拠：began sending digital notices。
全文和訳：学校図書館はお知らせの電子化を始め、変更前は月約400枚の紙を使っていたが、試行初月は250枚だった。ただし別の学校活動でも紙を使うため、学校全体の消費削減までは証明されていない。今後は印刷の種類別に記録する。

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A volunteer group planted flowers in boxes near a station. The members hoped to use less water by collecting rain in a covered tank. During a dry week, the tank became empty, and volunteers used tap water instead. The group has not yet measured whether the rain tank reduces water use across a whole year. It plans to compare records from rainy and dry seasons before drawing a conclusion.

正解：B. Tap water
根拠：used tap water instead。
全文和訳：駅前の花壇を管理する団体はふた付きタンクに雨水を集め節水を目指した。乾燥した週にタンクが空になり、水道水で水やりした。年間を通じた節水効果はまだ測定しておらず、雨季と乾季の記録を比較してから結論を出す予定。

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A science club checked ten trees along a busy street. Students measured the trunks and looked for signs of damage. They found that three trees had broken branches, but they could not decide whether traffic pollution had caused the damage. The club asked a local expert to examine the trees and planned to repeat the survey later in the year. The students were told not to treat a possible explanation as a proven cause.

正解：C. Whether pollution caused the damage
根拠：could not decide whether traffic pollution caused the damage。
全文和訳：科学部は交通量の多い通りで10本の木を調べ、3本に枝の折損があった。交通の汚染が原因かは分からず、地元専門家へ相談し年内に再調査する。可能性を証明済みの原因として扱わないよう注意された。

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A public museum received eighty applications for a science class, but there were only forty available seats. The museum selected forty students by lottery and sent confirmation emails to them on Monday. The other applicants were placed on a waiting list. On Wednesday, five confirmed students said they could not attend. The museum then offered the five places to people on the waiting list. Those people still needed to reply before their places were confirmed.

正解：A. Reply to the museum’s offer
根拠：still needed to reply before their places were confirmed。
全文和訳：科学館の講座には80人が申し込んだが定員は40人だった。抽選で40人を選び月曜に確認メールを送った。残りは待機名簿へ入った。水曜には確定者5人が欠席を連絡し、その5席を待機者へ提供したが、待機者も返信して初めて確定する。

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A secondary school compared temperatures in two classrooms. One had new window shades, and the other did not. On the first afternoon, the shaded room was cooler. However, the students noticed that the two rooms were on different floors, and one had an open window. Their teacher suggested checking more days and making the room conditions as similar as possible. The first result was useful, but it did not prove the shades alone caused the difference.

正解：B. The rooms had different conditions
根拠：different floors, one open window。
全文和訳：中等学校は日よけのある教室とない教室を比較し、初日の午後は日よけのある方が涼しかった。しかし階が異なり一方の窓が開いていたため、教師は条件をそろえて複数日に調べるよう求めた。初期結果は有用だが日よけ単独が原因とは証明されない。

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Students prepared an exhibition about food traditions in several countries. Each group wrote labels in English and Japanese. Before printing, the teacher found that one label described a food as popular everywhere in a country, although the group’s sources covered only one region. Students changed the wording to say that the dish was popular in the region they had researched. The teacher praised them for making their claim more accurate.

正解：C. The original claim was broader than the evidence
根拠：sources covered only one region, not entire country。
全文和訳：生徒は数か国の食文化展示を準備し日英両言語で説明を作った。教師は、資料が国内の一地域についてなのに「その国全体で人気」と書いてある点を見つけ、調べた地域で人気と修正させた。教師は表現を正確にしたことを評価した。

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A town organized a used-book exchange to encourage reading. Residents brought three hundred books, but thirty were too damaged to be exchanged. The organizers labeled the remaining two hundred seventy books and arranged them by topic. Visitors could take up to three books each. The town recorded the number of books taken but did not track whether people actually read them afterward. The organizers said the exchange was successful as an event, but they avoided claiming that it had improved reading skills.

正解：B. Two hundred seventy
根拠：300－30＝270。
全文和訳：町は読書促進の中古本交換会を開き、300冊が届いたが30冊は損傷がひどく交換不能だった。残り270冊を分類し、来場者は最大3冊持ち帰れた。持ち帰った本の数は記録したが実際に読まれたかは追跡せず、読解力が向上したとは断定しなかった。

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Students made a walking map showing places where visitors could sit in the shade. They first listed twelve benches, but when they checked the route, they found that two benches had been removed for repairs. The final printed map showed ten benches. The students also decided not to use some old photographs because they could not confirm the publication rights. They shared a corrected map with visitors before the weekend event.

正解：C. Ten
根拠：12－2＝10。
全文和訳：生徒は日陰のベンチを示す散策地図を作成した。当初12のベンチを載せる予定だったが、現地確認で2つは修理のため撤去済みと分かり、印刷版には10のベンチを載せた。古写真の公開許可も確認できず一部不使用にし、週末行事前に修正版を配布した。

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A nature park temporarily closed a path after strong rain damaged its wooden bridge. Visitors could still use the eastern path, but the western path was unavailable. Staff planned to inspect the bridge on Friday, yet they did not promise that the western path would reopen immediately. The park asked visitors to follow the signs because some older maps still showed the western path as open.

正解：D. The eastern path
根拠：Visitors could still use the eastern path。
全文和訳：自然公園は大雨で木橋が傷んだため小道を一時閉鎖。東側は利用できるが西側は閉鎖した。金曜点検予定だが直後の再開は確約せず、古い地図には西側が開いていると出るため標識に従うよう案内した。

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A community center collected school supplies for students whose families needed support. Volunteers received one hundred twenty notebooks and seventy pencils. They checked the items and placed twenty notebooks aside because their pages were damaged. The remaining one hundred notebooks were available for distribution. The center said it would count how many students received the supplies, rather than use the number of donated items as a measure of how many children were helped.

正解：B. One hundred
根拠：120－20＝100 notebooks。
全文和訳：地域センターは支援が必要な生徒向けに学用品を集め、ノート120冊と鉛筆70本を受け取った。ノート20冊は破損しており配布から除外、残り100冊が配布可能となった。寄贈個数だけで支援した子どもの数を判断せず、実際の受取人数を数える計画だ。

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A public library started an evening science class for working adults. Forty-five people registered, but the room could hold only thirty. The library offered two sessions instead of one and asked registrants to choose a preferred time. Staff said that choosing a time did not guarantee a place until a confirmation email had been sent. The library plans to review attendance after the first month before deciding whether to add more classes.

正解：C. After they receive a confirmation email
根拠：until a confirmation email had been sent。
全文和訳：公共図書館は働く大人向け夕方理科講座を始め、45人が登録したが教室の定員は30人だった。そのため1回から2回へ分け、希望時刻を選んでもらった。ただし確認メールが届くまでは席が確定しない。初月の出席状況を確認した後で増設を判断する予定だ。