英語検定ライティング準１級（第221回）

長文読解「キーワードは３種類という話」

大学入試の英語長文は社会問題をテーマにする。環境問題は断トツに多い。続いて意思疎通能力と経費削減能力がくる。前者は国際的な競争力を高めるため。後者は不景気への対策だ。
He solves numerous questions about social problems in English every day because he comes across English passages concerning various serious social issues when he reads the questions involved in the entrance exams.
Above all, the number of sentences about environmental issues has been the largest of all the problems.
This subject is accompanied by “communication skills,” “cost reduction ability,” and so on, which have been extremely crucial problems in our society in recent years.
The former is significant because Japan becomes competitive around the globe, and the latter is vital because the government takes an active action in order to improve the continuous depression for thirty years.

環境問題は気候変動による環境破壊からそれに伴う食糧危機などテーマが幅広い。熱中症を含む健康被害は地球温暖化によるものだ。絶滅危惧種の増加は医療問題に直接関わってくる。
Environmental problems contains various sorts of critical issues from environmental destruction caused by serious climate changes to food crisis caused by the ecological disorders, and global warming has been responsible for health damages including the deadly heatstroke.
At the same time, the number of endangered species has been larger and larger in recent years, which directly makes negative contributions to various medical fields.

意思疎通はグローバル化の中でいかに競争力を持って経済力を支えていくのか。これについて重要な意味を持つ。簡単に言えば引きこもりのニートが外交問題を解決するはずがないのだ。
Communication skills absolutely makes a difference when Japan wants to be competitive in the international economic viewpoint, which never fails to be as profitable as the previous Japan around three decades ago.
It is because Japan must improve the current situation that ordinary citizens suffer from too heavy a taxation.
In other words, someone antisocial or NEET people never fail to be burdensome or troublesome but they cannot have an ability to solve the vital diplomatic problems.
But they absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

経費削減は医療費が国家財政を逼迫しているのをイメージすればいい。健康志向の推進は国民に病気になるなと暗示している。質素な生活をする中で税金だけはきちんと払え。なのだ。
Cost reduction ability never fails to play an important role in order to correct the current crucial situation about Japan’s revenue and budget because the tremendous medical costs have made negative contributions to both subjects described above, an online article says.
The government has promoted our health consciousness in recent years, which means that ordinary citizens shouldn’t suffer from diseases because sickness or illness has negative influences on their national revenue.
They force their general public to pay taxes without fail even in the case of the current economic disorders, but not a few Diet members won’t do so, which is unfair.