平成年度奈良県立大学地域创造学部一般入学试.PDFVIP

平成 28 年度 奈良県立大学 地域創造学部 一般入学試験 （前期 日程）小論文問題 (その １) 第 １問 次の英文を読み、以下の問いに答えなさい。 When my mother first saw the great Buddha at Nara, she said that it was an experience she would never forget. I tried to tell her something about it. “Each curl on his head is the size of a large football, the nose is bigger than a man, the measurements from top to bottom are...” At this point she asked me to be silent. She said that she didn’t care about all these unimportant details. She just wanted silence so she could meditate on the feeling this great statue gave her. I was surprised because it takes a lot to silence my mother. She loves chatting on every conceivable1) subject. Afterwards she told me she’d seen the Statue of Liberty in New York, L’Arc de Triomphe2) in Paris as well as many other famous monuments, but nothing could impress her as much as Nara’s Buddha. “And then, I got that feeling of peace and holiness which Buddha gives you. It’s not just a matter of size,” she said. My mother just loved Kyoto and Nara. She said she wished that she could have lived 1,000 years ago so she could see the Heian era Emperor and his colourful court. She was really impressed with the white robes3) of the priests in the Shinto shrines. In tones that brooked4) no argument, she commented, “This is definitely the most elegant costume that has ever been designed for the male.” She was also very impressed with the j unihitoe on display in the museum but felt it was not really practical. She was quite sure of her opinion when a museum curator5) told her it would cost over a million yen to send a j unihitoe to a modern dry cleaners! When she saw some people clapping at a shrine, she asked me what they were doing. She was a bit surprised when I told her that they clapped their hands to summon a god. On hearing this, she commented, “I don’t think I would be very happy to be summoned in that way if I were a god. Tha