センター長文読解問題 ─ 時事ニュース
2月28日、アメリカのトランプ新大統領が施政方針演説をしました。AP通信の記事が分かりやすくまとまっていたので、そこから出題します。トランプ大統領誕生と英国のEU離脱は、昨年の時事ニュースでは欠かせないポイントですから、模試などでも出やすいと思われます。
下線部に入る単語を書いてみましょう。前後の文脈から、活用も工夫してください。
1 . H a "new chapter of American 2. g ", President Donald Trump issued a broad 3. c for overhauling the nation's health care system and significantly boosting military spending Tuesday night, swapping his trademark pugnaciousness and personal insults for a more restrained tone as he addressed 4. C
for the first time.
In an 5. a to American optimism, Trump declared, "The time for small thinking is over." Still, he employed dark language to describe the threat posted by "radical Islamic 6. t " - a term his own national security adviser rejects as inflammatory - an warned against "reckless" and "uncontrolled entry" of refugees and immigrants from coutries with ties to 7. e groups.
Trump's overall message on immigration, one of his signature campaign issues, was unexpectely 8. m . He said he believed that "real and positive immigration reform is possible" and had 9. s to news anchors earlier that he was open to 10. l that could provide a pathway to legal status for some of the millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.