問1. 次の(1)〜(3)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) What is the best way to make the big choices in life?
ア To take everything, pride, external expectations or fears of failure, into consideration.
イ To become naked and think about the choice by yourself.
ウ To think you are about to die.
エ To follow what others think is the most important.
(2) When he was diagnosed with cancer, what did the doctor tell him?
ア The doctor said he should go to another doctor to have better treatment.
イ The doctor said he should go through an operation to remove the tumor.
ウ The doctor advised him to get prepared for death.
エ The doctor advised him to make the tumor in order.
(3) According to the speaker, which of the following is NOT true? ...
ア Death is inevitable and it makes a way for the new.
イ His pancreatic cancer was very rare form that can be removed with surgery.
ウ We should live everyday as if it were last for our and other's life .
エ We should give our top priority to our own life.
問２. 以下の文章が英文と一致するように空所 (1)~(3)を埋めよ。
This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. It was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team （ 1 ） of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on（ 2 ）. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And（ 3 ） for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin a new, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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少し難しい単語も使われていますが、細かい部分は聞き取れなくとも大まかな文意さえ理解出来れば問題は解けるはずです。以下の英文は本文の中でもキーになる部分です。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
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