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現高校二年生で以下の記事が読めたら頼もしいです。難しいと思っても、頑張って読んでください。ゴルフの石川選手は、アーノルド・パーマーと会ったようです。

Newsweek
Is Fraud Contagious?
New research on the reasons people cheat and why some can resist temptation. http://www.newsweek.com/id/188953

The Car of the Future
What we'll be driving in five years.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/142223

Time
Electronic Health Records: What's Taking So Long?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1887658,00.html

UASA TODAY
Japanese teen golfer Ishikawa impresses on, off course
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/pga/2009-03-25-bayhillishikawa_N.htm

Yomiuri
'Living fossil' eggs photographed
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20090326TDY03003.htm

Educational Renaissance / AIU has high standards, low profile
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/language/20090326TDY16001.htm

New Yor Times
Japan Wins World Baseball Classic
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/sports/baseball/25classic.html

Ichiro Suzuki Delivers Memorable End to World Baseball Classic
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/sports/baseball/25wbc.html

2009年度 静岡大学 Ⅱ

相当手が加わっていますが、モト記事は以下です。

The World Food Crisis By John Nichols
May 12, 2008 edition of The Nation.
by John Nichols
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080512/nichols

最後の部分を比較してみましょう。
出典：
...as the Oakland Institute's Anuradha Mittal observes, that it is time to "stop worshiping the golden calf of the so-called free market and embrace, instead, the principle [that] every country and every people have a right to food that is affordable."As Mittal says, "When the market deprives them of this, it is the market that has to give."

問題文：
As the the Oakland Institute's Anuradha Mittal observes, that it is time to "stop thinking only about making money in a global free market and accept, instead, the principle that every human being has a right to access to food." We should understand that when the markers starts taking food away from people, something is wrong with the global food system.

ただし、初出のphilly.comには記事がなくなっているので、the Nationに発表する時点で加筆、修正しているかもしれません。

2009年度 筑波大学（前期） Ⅳ

全文30ページ（本文のみ）ですが、一日10ページ位ずつ読むことを進めます。テーマも「気候変動」です。ちょっと古い(2004)ですが、一読の価値はあると思います。

The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change:How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?
[Naomi Oreskes]
pp.16-7(pp.80-1)
http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/Oreskes2007.pdf

   The Inductive and Deductive Models of Science
The most widely cited models for understanding scientific reasoning are induction and deduction. Induction is the process of generalizing from specific examples. If I see 100 swans and
they are all white, I might conclude that all swans are white. If I saw 1,000 white swans or 10,000, I would surely think that all swans were white, yet a black one might still be lurking somewhere. As David Hume famously put it, even though the sun has risen thousands of times before, we have no way to prove that it will rise again tomorrow.
   Nevertheless, common sense tells us that the sun is extremely likely to rise again tomorrow, even if we can’t logically prove that it’s so. Common sense similarly tells us that if we had seen ten thousand white swans, then our conclusion that all swans were white would be more robust than if we had seen only ten. Other things being equal, the more we know about a subject, and the longer we have studied it, the more likely our conclusions about it are to be true.

2009年度 横浜市立大学（前期）入試

ちょっと古いですが、1997年度版のThe Best American Essaysに収めらた文章がⅡで出題されました。今年二大学目です。やはり、大学入試では「標準的な英語」ということになります。文系の大学院を含め、難関大受験予定者は、数年分読んでおくとよいと思います。

Ⅰ
The Oxford Murders
Guillermo Martinez (著), Sonia Soto (訳)
英訳：Macadam Cage Pub (2005/10/16)

出題文は、第一章の第一パラグラフの途中から。
以下のFeaturesのインデックスをめくると読めます。
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Oxford-Murders/Guillermo-Martinez/e/9780143037965

Ⅱ
The Case Against Babies (1996)
by Joy Williams

The Best American Essays 1997
Houghton Mifflin;
(November 3, 1997)

その後いくつか「アンソロジー集」に収録されています。
ネット上でも以下のサイトで読むこと、取り込むことができます。ただし、出題文は、大半がカットされ、かなり手が加わっています。

http://dada.tribe.net/thread/06825466-48d8-47a2-bbc4-762fe31d8119
http://howtobe40.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/essay-the-case-against-babies/

Ⅲ
Relevance: Communication and Cognition
Dan Sperber (著), Deirdre Wilson (訳)
Blackwell Pub; 2 Sub版 (1996/1/17)

1. Communication
最初のpp.１－３
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/reader/0631198784/ref=sib_fs_top?ie=UTF8&p=S00C&checkSum=%2FyTwYpQDOThEFmKdb42N6vX%2FEbBZumOo4MLcxsUgmzo%3D#reader-page