2024年度 早稲田大学 国際教養学部 Ⅰ 長文読解 解答

【解答】

 [出典:Betsy Golden Kellem, "How P.T. Barnum Helped the Early Days of Animal Rights," The Atlantic, May 10, 2017.]

(1) 

1. F (outlines some of the reasons for the decline in popularity of the circus.)

2. E (introduces the two main figures discussed in the article.)

3. G (provides some biographical details on Henry Bergh.)

4. D (discusses the first time that Bergh threatened Barnum with legal action.)

5. H (shows how Bergh, even though he lost the dispute over the feeding of live animals to snakes, continued with his work on animal welfare.)

6. B (argues that Bergh faced considerable challenges in gaining broad popular support for his activism.)

7. C (describes how Barnum used a live demonstration to dispel Bergh's claims that the use of fire was a danger to the safety and well-being of circus animals.)

8. J (shows that a friendship developed between Barnum and Bergh, despite their differences of opinion at times.)


(2)

1. A (backwards)

2. B (heartless)

3. D (very loud)

4. E (yelling)

5. B (debuting)

6. E (direct)

7. E (weakened)

8. C (property)

9. B (energetic)

10. D (promotion)


(3) A・C・E・G (Barnum and Bergh first clashed over the issue of live mice being fed to snakes at one of Barnum's circus shows.・Barnum pretended to set fire to the police superintendent's horse's tail to demonstrate that Bergh's fear that burning hoops were hurting the circus animals was unfounded.・Circuses ran, according to the article, from 1891 until the final one in 2017.・Henry Bergh set up the ASPCA in 1866 before moving into the family shipping business.)

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