リスニングテスト
(1) When Jane was out of the room, what did she think the speaker and her husband were doing?
1 Cheering. 2 Cooking. 3 Fighting. 4 Laughing.
(2) How did the speaker find out how to cook a lobster?
1 By asking her husband. 2 By checking the Internet.
3 By looking at a cookbook. 4 By talking to a neighbor.
(3) What happened to the lobster at the end of the story?
1 It was cooked.
2 It was given away.
3 It was set free by the husband.
4 It was taken home by the boss.
語法を耳から♪
SCRIPT
Now let me tell you a story. When we lived in Japan many years ago, my American friend Jane came to visit us with her Japanese boss, who wanted to meet my husband. After he left, we decided to open the gift that he had brought. Surprisingly, it was a neatly packed live lobster. I started laughing and shouting, “It’s alive! It’s alive!” But Jane, who’d just gone to the bathroom, thought I was yelling, “It’s a lie! It’s a lie!” She thought we were having an argument, so she was afraid to come back into the living room. When she finally returned, she realized that we were not fighting, but laughing at such an unexpected gift.
We had never cooked a lobster before, so we didn’t know what to do. In those days there was no Internet to get information, so we went and asked a neighbor. Meanwhile, we had put the lobster in a sink full of water. When we came home the lobster had become so lively that we no longer had the heart to cook it. We managed to get it back into the box, and we gave it to the neighbor instead.
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