英検1級道場－聞こえないのではなく、読めないのです　準1級リスニング問題で検証します

聞こえないのではなく、読めないのです

2016-2準1級リスニングパート②のAを使って、10人以上の受講者とリスニング練習をしまいた
4名が1級レベルの人です

全員、判で押したように、後半の二つのセンテンスで聞こえなくなります
いや、聞こえなくなるというより、単語は聞こえているのですが、そこの2か所だけ、突然、意味が言えなくなるのです
すらすらと日本語で意味が言えていたのに、そうなるのです

原因は意外なところにありました
それは、日本語には無い英文特有の表現のために、耳には単語が全部聞こえているのに、意味が瞬時にはとらえられないということなのです

皆さんも下記を読んで、日本語で意味を言ってください
第二段落の下記のセンテンスが俄かには訳せないはずです
However, the city's highly educated workers make it attractive to specialized industries that also require
secure production facilities.
Though the citizens sometimes feel isolated, the prosperity brought by high-tech manufacturing means they
are happy that access to Zheleznogorsk is limited.

ここからわかることは、パート2のような英文放送では、英語特有の表現をすらすら理解できる読解力があることが、リスニング力を高めるということです
リスニング（特にパート②）が弱い人は、耳鼻科に行くだけでは治りません
眼科にも行く必要があります

(A) The Secret City of Zheleznogorsk
The Cold War was a period of political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. During that time, the Soviet Union established about a hundred secret cities.
These cities usually contained military bases or facilities for producing weapons, so they were closed to outsiders and not marked on maps. Zheleznogorsk, constructed in the 1950s, was one such city. Most of its 90,000 citizens were engaged in producing plutonium for nuclear
missiles and bombs.
After the end of the Cold War, Zheleznogorsk did not become an open city, and government permission is still required for the general public to move there. However, the city's highly educated workers make it attractive to specialized industries that also require secure production facilities. Today, for example, three-quarters of Russia's space satellites are produced there. Though the citizens sometimes feel isolated, the prosperity brought by high-tech manufacturing means they are happy that access to Zheleznogorsk is limited.