英語検定ライティング準１級（第438回）

英語長文「理解するには経験値が必要な話」

受験生と一緒に英語長文の問題を解く機会がたまにある。彼は英単語を暗記する努力のできる生徒で語彙力もある。なのに内容が理解できない場面をよく見る。全文を読もうとする習慣が抜けない。重要な箇所とそうでない箇所が区別できないのだ。
There are several opportunities to work on English long passages with a few examinees at the workplace, where a certain examinee had difficulty understanding what is written in English, though he makes efforts to memorize numerous English words and he possesses sufficient vocabularies, but he cannot grasp something important.
He always tries to read almost all sentences including something trivial, whose habit prevents him from getting something indispensable in the long passage because we needn’t figure out a few examples, which aren’t vital.
What matters the most is the abilities to distinguish what is important from what isn’t significant, we should learn.

紅衛兵は伝統文化を破壊した。思想の違うなら親にも暴力を振るった。不要になると無能な独裁者の意向で農村に放り込まれた。中国では今も無能な指導者の写真が貼られている。多くの国民を騙して殺した独裁者の残骸が今でも支配しているのだ。
Various Red Guards broke numerous traditional cultures in China in 1970’s, of which ordinary citizens in Japan weren’t informed because the communists could prevent something important from leaking abroad and overseas.
Violent Red Guards couldn’t help resorting to violence against their parents with different beliefs and concepts, however, they were ordered to be engaged in agriculture in the rural areas since an incapable dictator considered them as someone unnecessary and uncontrollable.
We frequently see his picture in various kinds of places in China, which means that the communists have still taken advantage of the previous notorious dictator’s repulsive principle in order to control numerous ordinary citizens.
In fact, the unforgivable chicken leader deceived and killed a tremendously large number of innocent citizens.

結果が平等だとやる気が失われる。才能があっても努力しても運が良くてももらえるものが同じだと報酬系の脳内物質も放出されない。ベルリンの壁が崩壊して西ドイツの市民が驚いたのは排気ガスを撒き散らしながら走る旧式のボロ車だったのだ。
Each of the ordinary citizens has his or her own personal advantages : superior talents, enthusiastic efforts, luck and so on, despite this, in the communism world, almost all of them could gain the same outcomes, which cannot fail to deprive them of their motivations to perform their own brilliant advantages, after all, China was spoiled.
It is because none of brain substances in the rewards systems would be emitted and released, an article says.
When the Berlin Wall collapsed, people in West Germany were astonished that an automobile runs with poisonous gasses blowing into the atmosphere in East Germany.