「ハリーポッター」のクラスで、第四巻を読みはじめました。下線部について問いに答えてみましょう。すべてクリアできますか。
The villagers of Little Hangleron still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. (1)It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked over its face. Once a fine-looking manor, and (2)easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.
The Little Hagletons all agreed that the old house was "creepy." Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that (3)the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce.The story had been picked over (4)so many times, and had been embroidered in so many places, that nobody was quite sure what the truth was anymore. Every version of the tale, however, started in the same place: Fifty years before, at daybreak on a fine summer's morning when the Riddle House had still been well kept and impressive, (5)a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead.
The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as she could.
"Lying there (6)with their eyes wide open! Cold as ice! (7)Still in their dinner things! "
(1)It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked over its face.
下線部（１）の分詞の使い方について説明し、意味を考えて見ましょう。
(2)easily ここではどんな意味合いで使われているでしょうか。
(3)the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce.
意味を考えて、日本語に直してみましょう。
(4)so そのsoはこの文でどんな役割をしていますか。
(5)a maid had entered the drawing room to find all three Riddles dead
to findは不定詞ですがいわゆる「用法」は？
(6)with their eyes wide open withの使い方を確認してください。
(7)Still in their dinner things! どういう様子を表現していますか？
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