青山学院大リスニング2025

青山学院大学のリスニング問題を解いてみて、改めてそのレベルの高さに驚かされました。共通テストでリスニングのウエイトが高まる中、多くの大学が個別入試でリスニング問題を減らす傾向にありますが、青山学院大学がこうして高い水準を維持しているのは、きっと深い意図があるのでしょうね。今回の内容には、海外から見た日本の視点が含まれており、普段あまり意識していなかった考え方に触れることができました。このような気づきが得られる問題に挑戦できるのは、とても貴重だと感じます。

問題

①The Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes the right to (    ).

1. request refugee status in any country

2. enter any country you want at any time

3. build walls around your country

4. gain citizenship in any country

②Between the 1850s and 1910s, about (    ) of Europe’s population moved to the United States.

1. 5%     2. 15%    3.  25%   4. 35%

③If the world had open borders, (    ).

1. immigration could be expected to decrease dramatically
2. GDP would be expected to increase dramatically
3. there would be fewer old people in the world
4. there would be an increase in the number of births in the world

④Japan has a policy allowing immigration of highly skilled immigrants, but (    ).

1. visas are so hard to get that the replacement rate is not reachable
2. many villages in southern Japan are still attacked by wild animals
3. few come because the environment is not good for them
4. there are many environmental problems in the north of Japan

⑤By the inequality of citizenship. Suketu Mehta means that (    ).

1. one’s life is determined by what passport one holds
2. citizens have more rights than non-citizens
3. only the rich get citizenship
4. the whole notion of citizenship is an immoral one

⑥The majority of immigrants moved from (    ).

1. a poor country to a slightly richer country
2. a poor country to a much richer country
3. a rich country to a slightly less rich country
4. a rich country to a much poorer country

⑦(    ) is NOT mentioned as a place with anti-immigrant policies and sentiment.

1. Hungary 2. Italy 3. Poland   4. Sweden

⑧(    ) are reasons Suketu Mehta gives for people to migrate from their home countries.

1. Bad governments and dislike of their homes
2. Bad governments and climate change
3. Climate change and cultural resistance
4. Cultural resistance and desire to get rich

⑨Suketu Mehta thinks that (    ) are responsible for the excess carbon in the earth’s atmosphere.

1. developing countries
2. the developed countries except the USA
3. both the USA and the EU
4. not the EU but the USA

⑩Suketu Mehta thinks that immigration is (    ).

1. both necessary and good for everyone
2. neither necessary nor good for everyone
3. necessary but bad for people in the receiving countries
4. necessary but bad for people left in the immigrants’ home countries