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The pleasures of getting lost

Maps have made us worse at wandering. (1) ___ The phone in the pocket speaks with a calm authority, and we have learned to obey it in the way that earlier generations obeyed a signpost.

Yet anyone who has taken a wrong turn in a strange town and been rewarded with a courtyard, a bakery or a view will recall the experience with more affection than any efficiently completed route. (2) ___ Psychologists who study memory suggest that effort and surprise are what fix a place in the mind; a journey with neither leaves hardly a trace.

This is not an argument for abandoning navigation altogether. (3) ___ Nobody sensible wishes to wander across mountains in fog out of principle. What is worth defending is something smaller: the willingness, on an ordinary afternoon with nothing urgent waiting, to leave the instructions switched off and see where the streets lead.

The practice is harder than it sounds. (4) ___ Each time we hesitate at a junction, a voice inside us asks why we should risk twenty minutes when the screen would settle the matter in two. The honest answer is that the twenty minutes may be the only ones of the day that we remember. (5) ___ For that, a little disorientation is a modest price.

Writers on travel have long suspected as much, and the better ones tend to pay more attention to the unplanned afternoon than to the monument they set out to see. (6) ___ Perhaps the best way to begin is with a rule so gentle that it hardly counts as one: once a week, take the second street on the left, and see.

抜けている文を選ぶ

本文の各空所に合う文を A、B、C、D から選んでください。各空所に正しい文は 1 つだけです。

Gap 1: Which sentence fits best?
- a) These days a glowing arrow marks our position at every moment, and the idea of not knowing where we are has become almost unthinkable.
- b) Wandering, in contrast, has become a skill that more and more people practise every day.
- c) Few travellers in earlier centuries had access to maps of any kind.
- d) Printed maps are, of course, far cheaper than the devices that replaced them.
Gap 2: Which sentence fits best?
- a) Such routes are remembered fondly because they are always the quickest.
- b) The detour, it seems, is remembered precisely because it was not planned.
- c) The affection soon fades once the traveller returns to a familiar town.
- d) The route, by contrast, was chosen because other people had recommended it.
Gap 3: Which sentence fits best?
- a) Navigation devices have, in fact, become less accurate in recent years.
- b) Nearly every journey is, in fact, best made without any assistance.
- c) The writer's own sense of direction has always been excellent.
- d) There are journeys, whether across open country or to an urgent appointment, on which a reliable route is simply indispensable.
Gap 4: Which sentence fits best?
- a) Most people find it easy to ignore their phones for an entire day.
- b) The pull of efficiency is strong, and it works quietly, through a thousand small decisions rather than one large one.
- c) Once learned, wandering remains a habit that needs no effort at all.
- d) Few of us have any junctions left at which to hesitate.
Gap 5: Which sentence fits best?
- a) A reliable route will always remain preferable to an uncertain one.
- b) Those twenty minutes can generally be recovered later in the day.
- c) What is gained is not a shortcut to anywhere, but a place that has quietly become ours.
- d) Every junction, after all, offers exactly the same two choices.
Gap 6: Which sentence fits best?
- a) No traveller has ever followed this advice for more than a day.
- b) Monuments, unlike side streets, are rarely worth the effort of finding.
- c) Readers who prefer monuments will find little of interest in such books.
- d) If there is a lesson here, it is that attention comes more easily when the way is not already known.

口調、指示内容、含意

完成した本文に基づいて、最適な答え A、B、C、D のいずれかを選んでください。

What is the writer's attitude to navigation by phone?
- a) Hostile: it should be abandoned altogether
- b) Measured: it is useful but can limit what we notice
- c) Indifferent: it makes no difference to travellers
- d) Enthusiastic: it improves our memory
Why does the writer mention walking across mountains in fog?
- a) To show that wandering is dangerous
- b) To describe a journey the writer has made
- c) To mark the limits of the argument
- d) To criticise people who use maps
In the phrase a voice inside us, whose voice is meant?
- a) A friend giving advice
- b) Our own habit of choosing efficiency
- c) The phone's recorded instructions
- d) A psychologist's warning
What is implied by the twenty minutes may be the only ones of the day that we remember?
- a) The rest of the day is usually forgotten because it is routine.
- b) Twenty minutes is the ideal length for a walk.
- c) The writer has measured how long people remember journeys.
- d) People should spend their whole day lost.
What tone does the ending have?
- a) Warning and urgent
- b) Gentle and slightly playful
- c) Formal and scientific
- d) Bitter and ironic

解答

抜けている文を選ぶ

a) These days a glowing arrow marks our position at every moment, and the idea of not knowing where we are has become almost unthinkable.これは、The phone in the pocket が次に展開する技術を導入します。2 つ目の選択肢は冒頭の主張と矛盾し、他は電話につながりません。
b) The detour, it seems, is remembered precisely because it was not planned.次の文は、計画外の努力と驚きが場所を記憶に定着させる理由を説明しています。1 つ目の選択肢は、間違った道が最短ではないので誤りで、他の 2 つは説明につながりません。
d) There are journeys, whether across open country or to an urgent appointment, on which a reliable route is simply indispensable.その段落は、ナビゲーションを捨てる必要はないと述べて始まり、次の文は、霧の中で迷いたい人はいないと認めています。この譲歩を裏づけるのは、この選択肢だけです。
b) The pull of efficiency is strong, and it works quietly, through a thousand small decisions rather than one large one.次の文は、分かれ道ごとの小さな決断を通して、引力がどう働くかを示しています。1 つ目と 3 つ目の選択肢は harder than it sounds と矛盾します。
c) What is gained is not a shortcut to anywhere, but a place that has quietly become ours.For that は得られるものを指しているので、空所には、少しの方向感覚の乱れがその代償として小さいと言える利点が入らなければなりません。他の選択肢は利点を述べていません。
d) If there is a lesson here, it is that attention comes more easily when the way is not already known.それは、計画のない午後についての書き手の観察を要約し、始め方の提案へと自然につながります。他は極端か、話題から外れています。

口調、指示内容、含意

b) Measured: it is useful but can limit what we notice書き手は、ナビゲーションが必要であることは認めていますが、それが私たちが場所に気づき、記憶することを妨げうると主張しています。
c) To mark the limits of the argumentそれは譲歩です。書き手は、安全でない場所をさまようことを勧めているわけではありません。
b) Our own habit of choosing efficiencyそれは、効率についての旅行者自身の内なる考えを表す比喩的な表現です。
a) The rest of the day is usually forgotten because it is routine.その発言は、1 日のうち効率的で決まりきった部分には、長く続く印象が残らないことを暗示しています。
b) Gentle and slightly playfulそのルールは、ルールとはほとんど言えないほど穏やかだと述べられており、軽く、少しユーモラスな提案です。