英語検定ライティング準１級（第492回）

馳浩知事「前田日明の批判は届くのか？」

電子書籍は急速に普及してきている。パソコンやタブレットのような電子機器で文章を読む機会が増えてきた。その一方で紙の本でないと読んだ気がしないという人も多い。きちんと製本された真新しい本には何とも言えない味わいがあるとのことだ。但し技術の発達によって本屋の数は減少しているのだが。
An electronic book has been prevalent rapidly in our society in recent years, simultaneously, there have been numerous opportunities to read sentences with digital devices like a personal computer or a tablet, she knows.
On the other hand, numerous citizens fail to own enough satisfaction when they finish reading a digital book, in short, they aren’t able to gain any accomplishments and achievements without reading any paper books at all.
They tend to feel something comfortable and pleasant they cannot describe when they read a new paper book produced with the conventional procedures, although the number of the bookstores has become small due to the technological developments about books, she assumes.

現代社会では睡眠不足が見過ごせない問題となっている。それは深夜でもたくさんの人が起きていることを想定しているからだ。照明器具の発達によって人の体内時計も狂っている。それでも学校や会社の始業時間は変わることがない。睡眠不足によって生まれる集中力の低下は日中における生産性を左右する。
In our modern society, we have numerous serious issues, one of which might be the sleep shortage, and it should be considered as something we cannot ignore at all.
Our modern society takes it granted that almost all of us should be kept awake at midnight, simultaneously, the marvelous developments of the light technologies might have forced our biological clocks to function abnormally.
Despite this, the starting time of schools and companies hasn’t been changed for a long while, an article says.
We lack enough sleep on account of numerous reasons, which results in the reality that we fail to concentrate on something indispensable during the daytime, she knows.
Something productive and profitable might depend on whether we can have enough sleep during the nighttime.