シャドーイング練習: 英文跟讀｜百萬英鎊｜聽故事學英文｜英文聽力練習｜睡前英文故事｜英文學習（初學者友好） - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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The million-pound banknote.
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Sometimes money can change the way people look at you.
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But what if you had a million-pound banknote and could not spend even one penny of it?
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Henry Adams was a young American who had gone to England to look for work.
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He had no family there and very little money.
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He had been unlucky for some time.
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And one day his situation became even worse.
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Henry had been walking around London for hours.
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He was tired and hungry.
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He had almost no money left in his pocket.
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He did not know where he would sleep that night or where his next meal would come from.
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As he walked through the busy streets, he began thinking about his life.
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I should never have come to London, he thought.
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What am I going to do now?
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At that moment, he saw two well-dressed old gentlemen sitting near a large window.
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They were watching the people outside.
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Henry did not know it, but these two men were brothers,
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and they were having a very unusual argument.
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One of the brothers believed that a poor man could not survive if he suddenly received a million-pound banknote.
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The other brother believed that a million-pound banknote would allow a man to do almost anything.
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They had been discussing this question for some time when they noticed Henry.
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The young American looked poor.
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His clothes were old and dirty.
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He looked tired and hungry.
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To the two brothers, he seemed like the perfect person for their strange experiment.
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One brother said that they should give Henry a million-pound banknote and watch what happened.
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The other agreed.
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They called Henry into the house.
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Henry was surprised.
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He had no idea why two rich gentlemen wanted to speak with him.
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They asked him about his life, his work, and his situation.
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Henry told them the truth.
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He had almost no money and was looking for a job.
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Then one of the brothers handed him an envelope.
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Please open this, he said.
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Henry opened the envelope.
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Inside was a banknote.
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He looked at it carefully.
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Then his eyes became wide.
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It was a million-pound banknote.
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Henry stared at the note in silence.
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He thought there must be some mistake.
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This cannot be real, he said.
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It is real, one of the brothers replied.
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Henry could hardly believe what he was hearing.
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Why are you giving this to me?" The brothers explained that they had made a bet.
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They wanted to know what would happen to a poor man if he possessed a million-pound banknote,
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but could not exchange it for smaller money.
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They gave Henry enough information to understand the situation,
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but they did not tell him everything.
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They also gave him a letter explaining that he was not to spend the banknote itself.
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He could keep it for 30 days.
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Henry did not know what to do.
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A million pounds sounded wonderful, but there was a serious problem.
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He could not use it.
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If he went into a shop and asked for a loaf of bread,
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he could not simply give the shopkeeper a million-pound note and ask for change.
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No ordinary shopkeeper would have that much money.
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Henry left the house with the banknote in his pocket.
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As he walked away, he kept touching his pocket to make sure the note was still there.
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He was now the richest-looking poor man in London.
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But he was still hungry.
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Soon he saw a small restaurant.
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Henry entered.
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The owner looked at his dirty clothes and immediately decided that he was probably very poor.
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Henry sat down and ordered a simple meal.
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He ate quickly because he was extremely hungry.
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When the meal was finished, the owner came to him and asked for the money.
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Henry reached into his pocket.
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Then he remembered the million-pound note.
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He slowly took it out.
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The restaurant owner looked at the note.
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His face changed immediately.
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He became pale.
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He stared at Henry.
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Then he looked at the note again.
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Sir, he said nervously, is this really yours?
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Yes, Henry answered.
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The owner suddenly became extremely polite. Of course, sir.
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There is no charge.
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Henry was confused.
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No charge?
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None at all, sir.
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The owner was afraid to accept the note because he knew that he could never give Henry the correct change.
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Henry smiled.
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Thank you.
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He stood up and left.
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he began to laugh.
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He had just eaten a meal without paying for it.
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The million-pound note was already changing his life.
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Henry soon discovered something even more interesting.
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People did not need to see him spend the money.
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They only needed to see the banknote.
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Wherever Henry went, people began treating him like an extremely important man.
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At first, Henry felt uncomfortable.
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He was still wearing the same old clothes.
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He still had almost no cash.
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He still did not know where he would sleep.
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But people saw only the banknote.
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They did not see the poor young man.
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They saw a millionaire.
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Henry soon found himself receiving invitations from people he had never met before.
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Hotels welcomed him.
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Hotels offered him rooms.
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Shopkeepers were happy to give him expensive clothes and goods on credit.
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They believed that a man who owned a million pounds could easily pay later.
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Henry discovered that he could eat at the best restaurants in London without paying immediately.
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He could stay at the best hotels.
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He could order beautiful clothes.
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He could even buy expensive things simply by saying that he would pay later.
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The strangest part was that nobody seemed to ask him to prove anything.
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His banknote was enough.
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Henry went to a fine hotel.
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When the hotel manager saw the note, he treated Henry with great respect.
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The manager immediately offered him a beautiful room.
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Henry was shocked. Are you sure?
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Certainly, sir.
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I don't have enough money to pay for it now.
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The manager smiled.
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That is not a problem, sir.
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Henry understood.
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The million-pound note had become his introduction.
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It told everyone that he was rich, even though he could not actually spend the money.
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Soon, Henry's life became completely different.
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People wanted to know him.
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Rich businessmen invited him to dinner.
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Important people wanted to speak with him.
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Anyone who would never have noticed him before suddenly found him interesting.
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Everywhere he went, people treated him with respect.
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Henry was amused by the whole situation.
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He knew the truth.
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He was not rich in the normal sense.
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He had one enormous banknote and almost no small money.
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But nobody else knew that.
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One day, Henry met two gentlemen who were talking about his wealth.
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They believed he was a very rich American.
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They spoke about him as if he were an important businessman.
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Henry almost laughed.
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He wanted to tell them the truth.
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But then he realized that if he explained everything,
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he might lose his room,
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his meals, and all the help he was receiving. So, he said nothing.
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As the days passed, Henry became more comfortable with his strange new life.
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He began making friends.
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One of the most important people he met was a young woman named Portia.
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She was intelligent, kind, and from a wealthy family.
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At first, Henry was surprised that she wanted to speak with him.
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But Portia liked him for more than his money.
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Henry was honest with her about many things,
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although he could not tell her the whole truth about the banknote.
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The more time they spent together, the more Henry liked her.
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For the first time since arriving in England, he felt that he was not alone.
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Meanwhile, the two brothers who had started the experiment continued watching what happened.
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They were very interested in Henry's progress.
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The brother who believed that money could change everything was becoming more confident.
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The other brother was also surprised.
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Henry had survived.
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In fact, he was doing extremely well.
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But there was still one big problem.
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Thirty days were passing quickly.
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Henry had to keep the million-pound note until the end of the experiment.
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He could not spend it.
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He could not exchange it.
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He could only show it when necessary.
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Yet, because everyone believed he was rich, he could live almost like a millionaire.
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The more successful Henry appeared, the more people believed he was successful.
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It was a strange circle.
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One day, Henry was invited to an expensive dinner.
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There were many important people there.
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Everyone wanted to sit near him.
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They asked about America.
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They asked about his business.
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They asked about his investments.
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Henry tried to answer carefully.
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He knew almost nothing about business, but nobody seemed to notice.
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They assumed that a rich man must understand money.
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Henry began to understand something about society.
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People did not always respect a person because of who he really was.
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Sometimes they respected the image of the person.
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The million-pound banknote had created that image for him.
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If Henry had walked into the same room wearing his old clothes without the note,
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nobody would have cared about him.
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But with the note in his pocket, he was suddenly important.
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This discovery made him think.
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Still, he enjoyed his new life.
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He ate good food.
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He wore fine clothes.
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He stayed in expensive places.
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He met interesting people.
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And most importantly, he met Portia.
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As the 30 days came closer to an end, Henry began to worry.
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What would happen when the experiment ended? Would he lose everything?
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Would people laugh at him?
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Would Portia stop liking him?
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Henry had become used to being treated as a rich man,
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but he knew that his position was built on a single piece of paper.
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Then something unexpected happened.
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The million-pound banknote became famous.
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People had heard about the strange American who carried an enormous banknote but never spent it.
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The story spread through London.
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Some people thought Henry was a clever businessman.
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Others thought he was a mysterious millionaire.
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Nobody imagined that he had started with almost nothing.
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Henry's life became even more comfortable.
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People trusted him more than ever.
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At last, the 30 days ended.
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Henry returned to the two brothers.
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He gave them back the million-pound banknote.
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The brothers were pleased.
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Their experiment had been a success.
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Henry had proved that a man could live very comfortably if people believed he was rich.
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even when he could not actually use the money.
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The brothers then gave him something far more useful than the million-pound note.
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They gave him real money.
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Henry was now truly wealthy.
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He could finally spend his own money.
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He could buy food without worrying.
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He could choose where to live.
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He could make his own plans.
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And, most importantly, he could stay with the people he had come to care about.
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Henry's life had begun with hunger, loneliness, and almost no hope.
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A single banknote had changed the way everyone looked at him.
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But in the end, the most important thing he gained was not the million-pound note.
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It was a new life.
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He had discovered friends, love, confidence, and a place in the world.
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And whenever he remembered those strange thirty days in London,
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he could not help thinking about how easily people could be fooled by money.
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A poor man with a million-pound note could be treated like a king,
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but a man without money could be ignored,
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even if he had the same heart,
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the same intelligence, and the same character.
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For Henry Adams, the million-pound note was more than a strange gift.
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It was the beginning of the most unusual adventure of his life.
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「英文跟讀｜百萬英鎊｜聽故事學英文｜英文聽力練習｜睡前英文故事｜英文學習（初學者友好）」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。
毎日15〜30分の練習で、IELTSスピーキングへの自信と実践的な英会話力が身につきます。
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。