英語検定ライティング準１級（第432回）

台風消滅「すでに熱帯低気圧になった話」

貧困国は３年前にコロナワクチンを買うことができなかった。幸運なことにその薬害で死んだ犠牲者もいなければ後遺症に苦しむ患者もいない。製薬会社の目的は先進国の高齢者を殺すことだった。相続税は国のものになり上納金を吸い上げられる。
Not a few poor countries couldn’t purchase any corona vaccines three years ago, fortunately, they didn’t have any dead people and any patients with aftereffects, in short, such notorious vaccines did no damages to them.
These countries weren’t somewhere target by the major pharmaceutical corporations because their purpose was to kill numerous senior citizens in the industrial nations.
They would leave their descendants a certain amount of fortunes, but the government receives an inheritance tax, which enables them to become profitable, in short, the ordinary citizens absolutely become unprofitable.

あるインフルエンサーが人間はただのうんこ製造機だというのを聞いたことがある。その時は感銘を覚えるとともに納得してしまった。このことを踏まえて改めて暗殺された元総理の国葬を許せなく思う。うんこ製造機の葬式に税金を使ったのだぞ。
A certain influencer in France declared that our species are only “poops makers,” which seemed persuasive, at the same time, which seemed impressive on his channel because everyone fails to be someone respectable.
Considering this, the national funeral of the ex-prime minister should be something unforgivable because the host Diet members wasted a tremendously large amount of our bloody taxes : they should have paid their money in their bank accounts when they wanted to do so.
After all, more accurately, they wasted our taxes to hold the notorious funeral of one of the poops producers.

英語の受験問題は以前は文法問題が多かった。空欄に記号を補充するものとか。単なるクイズなので知性を問うものではなかった。近年は英文を理解する問題が多い。書いた人が一番言いたい主張を選ぶ問題だ。客観問題ではあるが文法よりはまし。
A few decades ago, the entrance examinations in English were composed of numerous grammatical questions : the examinees were required to locate a correct symbol into a blank, which looked like a TV quiz program since it didn’t require us to have profound comprehension and interpretation, in short, even someone unintelligent could answer such quizzes, although various examinees had to memorize a tremendously large number of information.
On the other hand, in recent years, almost all examinees must understand what the author writes in English, which requires them to be equipped with capable and superior insight towards the author’s intelligence and intentions.
An examinee has only to select a correct symbol among four options, in other words, he or she doesn’t have to describe something emotional and reasonable, which never fail to outweigh the previous examination systems.