【解答例】

４(A)

(21) a (to account to them as the mechanisms → to account for them as the mechanisms)

(22) b (which games are utilized for goal-oriented purposes → where games are utilized for goal-oriented purposes)

(23) b (more demanded or interested → more demanding or interesting)

(24) c (They make available people → They make available to people)

(25) c (trying to pick up them → trying to pick them up)

４(B)

(ア) 「そんな事を言ってはいけない!」と夜の焚火にあたっている時に突然誰かが，その一団のお気に入りの語り手に向かって叫ぶところを想像してみる。

(英文："You can't say that!" I imagine someone sitting around an evening fire suddenly shouting to the community's favorite storyteller.)

(イ) 彼らは静かに「その意味を理解する」ことで，語り手と聞き手との間で絆が生まれる。これら少数の「内なる理解者たち」は，注意深い聞き手であればその後すべての世代にわたってしたであろうことをしてきた。

(英文：They silently "get it" and a bond is now formed between them. These few "insiders" have done what alert audiences would do throughout all succeeding generations.)

(ウ) いかにして獰猛な野獣を巧みに罠にかけて殺したかという面白い物語も，一部の聞き手は気が付くであろうが，実のところは悪いリーダーから自分たちを解放するという物語なのである。

(英文：The exciting tale of how the dangerous beast was skillfully trapped and killed is really - as some listeners figure out - a story about ridding themselves of their vicious leader.)

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