【問題】次の英文を読んで、文中の( ア )から( シ )に入れるのに最も適当な英語一語をそれぞれ書きなさい。
Chris Hurn's son would not go to sleep. It was the boy's first night home ア a vacation in Amelia Island, Florida, and he had accidentally left behind Joshie, his beloved stuffed giraffe. There was no sleeping イ Joshie. Yet Joshie was in Florida. So Hurn was left with a problem.
In the long tradition of parents desperate to get their kids to ウ, Hurn assessed his options and concluded エ he'd better start lying. "Joshie is fine," he told his son. "He's just taking an extra-long vacation at the resort." His son seemed to believe it, eventually drifting off to sleep.
Later that night, to Hurn's great relief, a staff member of the Ritz-Carlton hotel called to report that Joshie had been オ. Hurn asked the staff a favor. He explained what he'd told his son and asked カ someone at the hotel could take a picture of Joshie on a lounge chair by the pool, to show he'd キ vacationing.
A few days ク, Joshie arrived — along with a binder full of pictures. One showed Joshie lounging by the pool, another showed Joshie driving a golf cart. ケ captured him playing with the hotel parrot, getting a massage in the spa (with cucumber slices covering his eyes), and even monitoring the security cameras in the control room.
Hurn and his wife were delighted, and コ son was extremely happy. Hurn wrote a blog post about the experience, which went viral.
Why did everyone love the story of Joshie? Because it contradicted our expectations. What do we サ to happen when a boy loses a stuffed animal on vacation? For it to be returned, maybe. If he's lucky. (And if so, it would probably be squeezed inside a box to reduce the cost of sending it.) Instead, someone at the hotel spent a few hours running around the resort with a stuffed giraffe, snapping silly pictures — "somebody get some cucumber slices for his eyes!" — so they could please some guests who had already checked シ and gone home. It was a strange and magical thing to do.
🌸 Mio先生の「1秒即決」記述ロジック(ア〜シ)
get O to V で「子供を眠らせる」。直前の would not go to sleep から sleep を導出!
conclude that S V(〜であると結論を下す)。目的語節を導く接続詞 that。
ask if S could V(〜できるかどうか尋ねる・頼む)。間接疑問文を導く if。
vacationing(現在分詞)。過去完了進行形 had been vacationing の been!
A few days later(数日後)。
One showed ..., another showed ..., Another [Others] captured ...
What do we expect to happen ...?(何が起きることを予想・期待するか?)。