今日のリスニングは、歴史・地理です。内容を把握するためですので、一語一句にとらわれず全部聞いて、内容を掴んでみましょう。

以下の、史実に基づいた記述の、音声を聴き、それぞれの問いの答えとして正しい選択肢を選んでください。
このプレヤーではスピードは 、8段階で聴くことが出来ます。
以下に解答欄がありますが、見えない時は、この記事のタイトルか、その左のカメラマークをタップしてください。
お疲れ様でした。正解は以下です。GO BACK を押すと元の問題にもどれます。
1. Siberia is
b. not inhospitable contrary to what we might think.
2. Choose a correct combination of a mineral, precious stone, and ornamental stone.
c. gold – amethyst – jasper
3. The word “Amur” appears in the passage. What is it?
a. a large river into which many branch streams flow.
4. The passage can be summarized as below.
b. The northern part of Siberia is extremely cold, but its southern part has fertile soils rich with resources like fish, timber, minerals, and more.
—
朗読テキスト
Siberia is by no means the inhospitable land of ice which the name suggests to our minds. That designation applies well to its northern half, but not to the Siberia of the south. Here are vast fertile plains, prolific in grain, which need only the coming railroad facilities to make this region the granary of the Russian empire. The great rivers and the numerous lakes of the country abound in valuable fish; large forests of useful timber are everywhere found; fur-bearing animals yield a rich harvest in the icy regions of the north; the mineral wealth is immense, including iron, gold, silver, platinum, copper, and lead; precious stones are widely found, among them the diamond, emerald, topaz, and amethyst; and of ornamental stones may be named malachite, jasper, and porphyry, from which magnificent vases, tables, and other articles of ornament are made. The region on the Amur and its tributaries is particularly valuable and rich, and a great population is destined in the future to find an abiding-place in this vast domain.
—
© Copyright 2021 Adamorbis, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 音声と、朗読したテキストは、個人用に、それぞれダウンロード、コピペしていただいて結構です。
前述を除き、このサイトの全てのコンテンツは、Adamorbis, LLC の知的財産であり、サイトを訪れた個人による、個人的学習に供されます。
個人・公を問わず、いかなる手段によるものでも、転載・書き換え、引用等、による他者への内容の伝達は全て禁じます。