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Cambridge IELTS 16 Reading Test 2.

The White Horse of Uffington.

The cutting of huge figures are, geoglyphs, into the earth of English hillsides has taken place for more than 3,000 years.

There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on the chalked downlands of the country's southern counties.

The figures include giants, horses, crosses and regimental badges.

Although the majority of these geoglyphs date within the last 300 years or so, there are one or two that are much older.

The most famous of these figures is perhaps also the most mysterious, the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire.

The White Horse has recently been redated and shown to be even older than its previously assigned ancient pre-Roman Iron Age date.

More controversial is the date of the enigmatic Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex.

While many historians are convinced the figure is prehistoric, others believe that it was the work of an artistic monk from a nearby priory

and was created between the 11th and 15th centuries.

The method of cutting these huge figures was simply to remove the overlying grass to reveal the gleaming white chalk below.

However, the grass would soon grow over the geoglyph again unless it was regularly cleaned

or scoured by a fairly large team of people.

One reason that the vast majority of hill figures have disappeared is that when the traditions associated with the figures faded,

people no longer bothered or remembered to clear away the grass to expose the chalk outline.

Furthermore, over hundreds of years the outlines would sometimes change due to people not always cutting in exactly the same place,

thus creating a different shape to the original geoglyph.

The fact that any ancient hill figures survive at all in England today is testament to the strength

and continuity of local customs and beliefs which, in one case at least, must stretch back over millennia.

Iron Age, a period in Britain 800 BCE-43 CE, that is characterized by the use of iron tools.

The Uffington White Horse is a unique, stylized representation of a horse consisting of a long, sleek back, thin disjointed legs, a streaming tail, and a bird-like beaked head.

The elegant creature almost melts into the landscape,

The horse is situated 2.5 kilometers from Uffington Village on a steep slope close to the Late Bronze Age,

circa 7th century BCE, pilfered of Uffington Castle and below the Ridgeway, a long-distance Neolithic asterisk track.

The Uffington Horse is also surrounded by Bronze Age burial mounds.

It is not far from the Bronze Age Cemetery of Lamburn's Seven Barrows, which consists of more than 30 well-preserved burial mounds.

The carving has been placed in such a way as to make it extremely difficult to see from close quarters, and like many geoglyphs is best appreciated from the air.

Nevertheless, there are certain areas of the Vale of the White Horse, the valley containing and named after the enigmatic creature, from which an adequate impression may be gained.

Indeed on a clear day the carving can be seen from up to 30 kilometers away.

The earliest evidence of a horse at Uffington is from the 1070s CE when, White Horse Hill, is mentioned in documents from the nearby Abbey of Abingdon,

and the first reference to the horse itself is soon after, in 1190 CE.

However, the carving is believed to date back much further than that.

Due to the similarity of the Uffington White Horse to the stylized depictions of horses on 1st century BCE coins, it had been thought that the creature must also date to that period.

However, in 1995 optically stimulated luminescence,

OSL, testing was carried out by the Oxford Archaeological Unit on soil from two of the lower layers of the horse's body, and from another cut near the base.

The result was a date for the horse's construction somewhere between 1400 and 600 BCE in other words, it had a late Bronze Age or early Iron Age origin.

The latter end of this state range would tie the carving of the horse in with occupation of the nearby Uffington Hilford,

indicating that it may represent a tribal emblem marking the land of the inhabitants of the Hilford.

Alternatively, the carving may have been carried out during a Bronze or Iron Age ritual.

Some researchers see the horse as representing the Celtic asterisk asterisk asterisk horse goddess Apona, who was worshipped as a protector of horses,

and for her associations with fertility.

However, the cult of Epona was not imported from Gaul, France, until around the 1st century CE.

This date is at least six centuries after the Uffington horse was probably carved.

Nevertheless, the horse had great ritual and economic significance during the Bronze and Iron Ages, as attested by its depictions on jewelry and other metal objects.

It is possible that the carving represents a goddess in native mythology, such as Rhiannon, described in later Welsh mythology as a beautiful woman dressed in gold and riding a white horse.

The fact that geoglyphs can disappear easily, along with their associated rituals and meaning, indicates that they were never intended to be anything more than temporary gestures.

But this does not lessen their importance.

These giant carvings are a fascinating glimpse into the minds of their creators

and how they viewed the landscape in which they lived.

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この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が51文、単語が890語あります。音声の長さは5:11です。話す速さは1分あたり約172語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は74%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

carving /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/ (名詞) — 彫刻. A carved object.
grass /ɡɹɑːs/ (名詞) — 草, 雑草. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as…
ritual /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ (名詞) — 儀式, 祭祀. A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.
chalk /t͡ʃɔk/ (名詞) — 白亜. A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
vast /væst/ (形容詞) — 広大な, 莫大な. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/ (名詞) — 提携者. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
landscape /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ (名詞) — 景色, ランドスケープ. A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
indicate /ˈɪndɪˌkeɪt/ (動詞) — 示す, 指す. To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/ (副詞) — しかし, が. In spite of what preceded; yet.
disappear /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ (動詞) — 消える. To vanish.
goddess /ˈɡɑdəs/ (名詞) — 女神. A female deity.
consist /kənˈsɪst/ (名詞) — 編成. A lineup or sequence of railroad carriages or cars, with or without a locomotive, that form a unit.
outline /ˈaʊtlaɪn/ (名詞) — 中抜き. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
burial /ˈbɛɹi.əl/ (名詞) — 埋葬. The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ (名詞) — 神話. The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.

動画に出てくる句動詞

carry out /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ (動詞) — 行う, 実行する. To hold while moving it out.

注意したい発音

「th」の音: nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, thin /ˈθɪn/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, furthermore /ˈfɜː(ɹ).ðə(ɹ)ˌmɔː(ɹ)/
「sh」と「zh」の音: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/, worship /ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, mythology /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/

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まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。carving, grass, ritualなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	been redated · was created · was regularly cleaned
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has taken · has recently been redated · have disappeared

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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