英語の長文
(1)Certain occupations which represent work to others are recreations to us. Acting, gardening, fishing, hunting, carpentry are work for the professional and recreation for the amateur, even if the latter indulges in them with the greatest possible seriousness; first because the use of different muscles and nerves is in itself a rest, and them because the amateur feels himself to be released from his conflict with the outside world, to be at liberty to stop what he is doing whenever he pleases. He is spread the fatigue of compulsion.
(2)The playing of games is a still freer form of activity; there are no real problems to be solved, merely an arbitrary set of rules which the participants have agreed to obey. The chess-player and the bridge-player are not in conflict with the Universe, but with pure skill. Two things conductive to rest result therefrom: the players know that the loss of a game is unimportant, and also that the interventions of luck and limited. The moral benefits of sort must be noted here. Respect for the rules is self-imposed by the participants, because games can't be played without rules. When a habit of this kind has been adopted by a whole nation for several generations it tends to produce law-abiding citizens. "(1)," the English say of a man who is dishonest in love, business, or politics. Civilization is man's adoption of accepted conventions. Many of these conventions are as arbitrary as tennis or golf rules, but they substitute courtesy for fear and sport for war, because they enable us to foresee the reactions of those with whom we live.
(3)In the theatre we do things only by proxy. We sit, motionless, watching the actions of others. We are interested because "(2)." The emotions and passions depicted in comedies and tragedies are our own. We live them with the dramatist. Why is this restful? Because, in the realm of art, no decisions are required of us. A drama, which concerns us and could be our own, takes place in an imaginary world, and we know this. The aesthetic and the ethical levels are far apart, but the drama distracts its audiences from the pettinesses of life involves them in its deep and noble passions, and in this way can greatly uplift and exalt them. An effective truce to actual struggles would, however, become hateful if drama were to take the place of life. The cinema and the radio, in small doses, prepare us for new tasks by distracting us. If indulged in to excess, they stupefy us.
【設問】
(1)(2)に入る適切な文
アHe’s not playing the game
イWork keeps off boredom, vice, and poverty
ウNothing that is human is alien to us
エHe who begins many things, finishes but few
オThe principle of nationalities must be respected
カLookers-on see most of the game
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こんにちは。ご回答、ありがとうございます。 大体理解出来ていたようで、安心しました。 私も、その「A％」というところが気になりました。 「一部」という意味には違いありませんが、スッキリしませんね。 丁寧にご回答頂き、ありがとうございました。