英語長文 空所補充問題（５）
高齢者の登山ブームに関する文章です。
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英語空所補充問題（5）
In recent years there has been a boom in mountain hiking among senior citizens, stimulated by a book on Japan’s “100 Famous Mountains,” which has given many people the ambition to climb all one hundred mountains on the list. While some are easy summits, others are serious mountains that require proper skills and equipment and an ( 1 ) to deal with bad weather.
Unfortunately, many of these senior citizens have taken up mountain hiking later in life and lack the skills that are usually gained through years of experience. ( 2 ), they rely on commercial group tours led by mountain guides to take them to the summits of their dreams. But as increasing numbers of tragic accidents show, joining a tour does not ( 3 ) your safety when ( 4 ) go wrong. This was sadly illustrated in the summer of 2009 by the deaths of seven elderly ( 5 ) and a guide in bad weather in the mountains of Hokkaido.
(1)~(5) に 文脈に合う語を 以下の語から選んで入れよ。
guarantee clients customers equipment instead things situation
解答
(1) ambition
野望 大志
Boys be ambitious!
クラーク博士！
(2) instead
その代わりに
(3) guarantee
保証する
ギャラ（保証金）
(4) things
状況（複数形で使います。）
風物
things Japanese
日本の風物（コタツとか）
(5) clients
（特別な事の）客
山登りの観光客は特別ですね。
弁護士の客やカウンセラーの客もclientです。
customerは「いつも来る客」です。
Customは「習慣」ですから「常連客」ですね。
ちなみに
guest
特別な客（ホテルとか）
passenger
乗客
audience
観客
spectator
見物客
などもあります
次回もよろしくお願いします。
