問1. 次の(1)〜(4)の問いに対してそれぞれ正しい答えを一つ選び、その記号を記せ。
(1) Steve’s biological mother refused to sign the final adoption papers because …
ア she thought the adoptive parents couldn’t afford to raise him up properly.
イ the adoptive parents really want a girl, not a boy.
ウ she found out that the adoptive father had dropped out of a college.
エ she found out that the adoptive parents didn’t graduate from a college.
(2) After he decided to drop out, …
ア he rented a flat and did part-time job to live alone.
イ he visit Hare Krishna temple to get foods for free every night.
ウ he felt scared but got into what satisfy his curiosity.
エ he kept on taking the normal class though he didn’t need to.
(3) According to the speaker, which of the following is NOT true?
ア Every poster in Reed college was calligraphed beautifully by hand.
イ He couldn’t find any practical application of calligraphy throughout his life.
ウ The Mac, the first computer he designed, had beautiful typogtraphy.
エ If he had not dropped out the college, personal computers would not have wonderful typograohy that they have now today.
(4) Which of the following is the main theme of this speech?
ア You should look forward and do anything hard in order to connect the dots.
イ Though you can’t know a dot will be a helpful, you should do what you can now hard.
ウ You should make as many dots as you can to succeed in the IT business.
エ You should make dots which are likely to be useful in your future business.
問２. 以下の文章が英文と一致するように空所(1)~(4)を埋めよ。
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class ( 1 ). I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about
( 2 ). It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even ( 3 ) in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If ( 4 ) that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.
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スピーチはスティーブ・ジョブズの生まれる前にまで遡って始まり、“biological mother”すなわち生みの親に養子に出された彼の大学時代の話題が中心となります。その話題の中で“calligraphy”や“typography”という単語が出てきます。ギリシャ語由来のこれらの単語にはあまり馴染みがないと思いますが、これらは文字を美しく書くための技法のことを意味します。それをふまえてもう一度聞いてみると更に理解度が増すかもしれません。
以下にこのプレゼンテーションの重要部分を抽出しておきます。よく聞き取れなかった人はよく読み、訳した上でもう一度聞いてみましょう！
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
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