ネオニコチノイド
Two new studies found that honeybees and bumblebees had searching food and returning with it to their hives after exposure the class of pesticides which is widely used to protect grains, cotton, beans, vegetables, and many other crops.
[trouble / for / to]
Two new studies found that honeybees and bumblebees had (trouble) searching (for) food and returning with it to their hives after exposure (to) the class of pesticides which is widely used to protect grains, cotton, beans, vegetables, and many other crops.
Can you sketch a landscape, or even a simple piece of fruit? If not, (c ) are that your brain is getting in the (w ), says painting teacher and landscape artist David Dunlop.
「あなたは景色をスケッチできますか？あるいは 果物一つでも？もしできないなら、おそらくあなたの脳が邪魔をしているのだ」と絵画教師であり風景画家のデイヴィッド・ダンロップ氏は言う。
Can you sketch a landscape, or even a simple piece of fruit? If not, (chances) are that your brain is getting in the (way), says painting teacher and landscape artist David Dunlop.
Space correspondents like myself found that Armstrong was unique among his colleagues. He was unlike all the others, self-conscious and deeply ( ). He did not enjoy talking to us ( ) we were fully informed; trivial questions posed by general reporters he found unbearable, and he remained a quietly dignified ( ) for the rest of his life, working principally as an engineering academic and businessman.
【figure / unlike / unless / while / extrovert / introverted】
Space correspondents like myself found that Armstrong was unique among his colleagues. He was unlike all the others, self-conscious and deeply (introverted). He did not enjoy talking to us (unless) we were fully informed; trivial questions posed by general reporters he found unbearable, and he remained a quietly dignified (figure) for the rest of his life, working principally as an engineering academic and businessman.
Alternatively, should we find one with enough interesting materials to make it worth (e ), we could alter its orbit so it moves into a new, (s ) orbit around Earth or the moon. [2018京都大]
「あるいは、もし開発（利用）する価値があるほどの興味深い物質を十分に含んだものを発見した場合には、それが地球または月の周りの新しい安定した軌道へと移動するように、その軌道を変化させることもできるでしょう。」
Alternatively, should we find one with enough interesting materials to make it worth (exploiting), we could alter its orbit so it moves into a new, (stable) orbit around Earth or the moon. [2018京都大]
What food in Nara did Mr. Higashi absolutely love?
➀早苗ちゃんクッキー
➁そうめん
➂大仏プリン
➃柿の葉寿司
➁そうめん
Ironically, the relatively new pesticides have been welcomed as an environmental plus because they are, by almost all accounts, less harmful to other wildlife than previous generations of pesticides.
by almost all accountsの意味は？
「ほぼ誰に聞いても」
Without ( ) to turn off the part of the brain that identifies objects, people can only draw icons of objects, ( ) the objects themselves. When faced with a hat, for instance, most people sketch a ( ) side view of a hat, rather than the curves, colors and shadows that hit our retina.
[rather than / learning / getting / typical / while]
Without (learning) to turn off the part of the brain that identifies objects, people can only draw icons of objects, (rather than) the objects themselves. When faced with a hat, for instance, most people sketch a (typical) side view of a hat, rather than the curves, colors and shadows that hit our retina.
When Nasa ( ) on its second astronaut training programme in 1962, he was one of the nine test pilots chosen. Four years later, on Gemini 8 for his first space venture, Armstrong ( ) his experience into play when the spacecraft continued spinning after completing a docking manoeuvre. The situation could have become life-threatening.
【brought / commanded / embarked / turned】
When Nasa (embarked) on its second astronaut training programme in 1962, he was one of the nine test pilots chosen. Four years later, on Gemini 8 for his first space venture, Armstrong (brought) his experience into play when the spacecraft continued spinning after completing a docking manoeuvre. The situation could have become life-threatening.
As the cow was (p ), she spent more time with it than with the others. After the cow’s baby was born, the baby started following Sabine around. [2021共テ]
「その牛は妊娠していたため、彼女は他の牛たちと過ごすよりも多くの時間をその牛と一緒に過ごしました。その牛の赤ちゃんが生まれた後、その赤ちゃんはサビーヌの後を付いて回り始めました。」
pregnant
What kind of trouble did Mr. Higashi run into in Nara?
➀発表原稿をホテルに忘れて詰んだ。
➁発表会場が分からず焦った。
➂金曜日に新幹線が止まって、その日は敦賀で泊まった。
➃教室臭くね？と思ったら、鹿のフンが靴底にびっしり。
➀発表原稿をホテルに忘れて詰んだ。
(U ) older pesticides, the neonicotinoid pesticides are most often introduced directly into the (s ) of crops planted by farmers and thus spread throughout the entire plant (a ) it grows — including the pollen and nectar the bees (f ) on.
(Unlike) older pesticides, the neonicotinoid pesticides are most often introduced directly into the (seeds) of crops planted by farmers and thus spread throughout the entire plant (as) it grows — including the pollen and nectar the bees (feed) on.
She found that artists’ eyes tended to scan the whole picture, including apparently empty expanses of ocean or sky, ( ) the nonartists focused in on objects, especially people. Nonartists spent about 40 percent of the time looking at objects, ( ) artists focused on them 20 percent of the time.
共通して入る語は？
while
Later I learned that Low and other senior Nasa officials had realised that the first man would become (i ) in the public’s eyes. The grave Armstrong, they realised, was much more suited to the role than Aldrin, a brilliant and outspoken mathematician, always (l ) to challenge and disagree with authority.
Later I learned that Low and other senior Nasa officials had realised that the first man would become (immortal) in the public’s eyes. The grave Armstrong, they realised, was much more suited to the role than Aldrin, a brilliant and outspoken mathematician, always (liable) to challenge and disagree with authority.
Due to the time and money it takes to probe many minds from across the globe, most research is still too narrow, often examining only single cultures ― and still, disproportionately, Western ones. [2025早稲田大・国教]
probeの意味は？
「調べる・調査する」
Which other prefectures did Mr. Higashi visit besides Nara?
➀和歌山
➁兵庫
➂三重
➃岡山
➁兵庫
Spraying of the older pesticides could be ( ) when plants were flowering ( ) bees would not be harmed. ( ) the neonicotinoids, which kill pest insects by attacking their central nervous systems and are ( ) from the same chemical found in tobacco, that kind of timing is not possible.
【 deprived / derived / with / on / so / prevented / halted】
Spraying of the older pesticides could be (halted) when plants were flowering (so) bees would not be harmed. (With) the neonicotinoids, which kill pest insects by attacking their central nervous systems and are (derived) from the same chemical found in tobacco, that kind of timing is not possible.
He analyzed 36 Rembrandt self-portraits, and found that the artist depicted himself ( ) one eye looking straight ahead and the other wandering outward. This condition affects 10 percent of the population and results ( ) an inability to use both eyes to construct an integrated view of the world.
He analyzed 36 Rembrandt self-portraits, and found that the artist depicted himself (with) one eye looking straight ahead and the other wandering outward. This condition affects 10 percent of the population and results (in) an inability to use both eyes to construct an integrated view of the world.
Armstrong ( ) took up his position, and held ( ) the camera. Aldrin, busy collecting lunar samples, replied: “No, you keep it.” Nothing ( ), he said later.
【out / on / markedly / duly / intentional / special】
Armstrong (duly) took up his position, and held (out) the camera. Aldrin, busy collecting lunar samples, replied: “No, you keep it.” Nothing (intentional), he said later.
When the hives as a whole don’t (t ), then the individual bees become more (s ) to disease and other threats.
When the hives as a whole don’t (thrive), then the individual bees become more (susceptible) to disease and other threats.
Rembrandt’s condition, says Conway, ( ) ( ) (g ) him an advantage in seeing the world like an artist. It is no (a ) that art teachers often tell their students to close one eye before sketching a scene, he says.
Rembrandt’s condition, says Conway, (may) (have) (given) him an advantage in seeing the world like an artist. It is no (accident) that art teachers often tell their students to close one eye before sketching a scene, he says.
So the surface pictures we do have are all of Aldrin taken by Armstrong, the most famous of them (be) the one in which Armstrong is reflected in Aldrin’s facepiece.
beを適切な形に。
So the surface pictures we do have are all of Aldrin taken by Armstrong, the most famous of them (being) the one in which Armstrong is reflected in Aldrin’s facepiece.