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 My father has chronic pneumonia that many rounds of antibiotics couldn’t clear up. Twice in the past year, an ambulance had to be called to haul him to the hospital for suctioning procedures that he found dreadful, and after talking it over with my mother,(1) he decided he wouldn’t go down that road again. He was brought home and put on hospice care, and the decision was made to take him off antibiotics. They simply weren’t doing him any good. There were e-mail exchanges about this decision, which seemed grave, and my mother and sister notified the funeral home, and (2) my brother began to plan the service, and Dad went off the antibiotics and got a little better. That was a few weeks ago.

 The handbook on dying that the hospice gave us advises you to forgive the dying person and express your love and your gratitude, and to say goodbye ― as a gift to the person and to yourself. (3) It doesn’t explain how to do this with someone who is extremely hard of hearing and who, even when he could hear, never went in for such declarations. And what about all those things you’re not sure whether to forgive or feel grateful for?

 The best gift I can give my father is to bring my daughter to visit him. She touches his foot, and he wiggles his toes. She throws a ball at him; he throws it back. She smiles a beatific smile. She kisses his hand and his cheek. She waves good-bye. She has no words for this. It is pure love. She is three, the age I was when he wrote a letter to me and my brother and sister in 1945 from New York, saying how much he missed us while he was in the Army, billeted in a hotel at Broadway and 29th. He thought about us every day, he said, and wished we could be with him but didn’t think it wise for children to grow up in a city among so many people. It was signed, “Love, Daddy.” (4) I never saw the letter ( a ) a week ago. It never ( b ) to me ( c ) he loved me, but of course he ( d ), and it was nice to hear about it ( e ) last.

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1 下線部分(1)について誰が何をしたのか具体的に説明しなさい。

2 下線部分(2)について誰が何をしたのか具体的に説明しなさい。

3 斜字体の語の指すものがわかるようにして、下線部分(3)を和訳しなさい。

4 下線部分(4)の空所( a )~( e )にそれぞれふさわしい1語を入れて完成しなさい。

問題Notes

  • antibiotics: noun [usually pl.] a substance, for example penicillin, that can destroy or prevent the growth of bacteria and cure infections
  • beatific: adjective (formal) showing great joy and peace
  • billet: verb [V+adv. / prep.] [usually passive] to send soldiers to live somewhere temporarily, especially in private houses during a war
  • chronic: adjective 1 (especially of a disease) lasting for a long time; difficult to cure or get rid of 2 having had a disease fo
  • r a long time 3 (BrE, information) very bad
  • haul: verb 1 [VN] to pull something / somebody with a lot of effort 2 [VN+adv. / prep.] ~ yourself up / out of etc. to move yourself somewhere slowly and with a lot of effort 3 [VN+adv. / prep.] to force somebody to go somewhere they do not want to go 4 [VN] [usually passive] ~ somebody (up) before somebody / something to make somebody appear in a court of law in order to be judged
  • hospice: noun a hospital for people who are dying
  • pneumonia: noun [U] a serious illness affecting one or both lungs that makes breathing difficult
  • suction: noun 1 the act, process, or condition of sucking 2 the force that, by a pressure differential, attracts a substance or object to the region of lower pressure 3 the act or process of producing such a force verb to draw out or remove by aspiration
  • wiggle: verb (informal) to move from side to side or up and down in short quick movements; to make something move in this way(Adapted from Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English 6th ed.)

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