2025年度第2回英検 1級ライティング（英文要約）

投稿日：2026/1/15

1級ライティング（英文要約）を見て行きましょう。

2025年度第2回 1級問題文 (pg12)

模範解答は下記でした。

2025年度第2回 1級解答

2025年度第1回の記事はこちらです。

2025年度第1回英検 1級ライティング（英文要約）

Drug patents give pharmaceutical firms a temporary monopoly that helps them afford the investment requisite for producing novel medicines. Moreover, one downstream consequence of this system is that pharmaceutical companies are able to continue charging high fees for drugs by making minor tweaks to them to be awarded new patents. Now, to prevent such practices that go against the spirit of the system, some lawmakers recommend stricter criteria for the issuing of new patents to clamp down on monopolies and promote more medical breakthroughs. Unfortunately, however, the pharmaceutical industry has more abundant resources than reformers and is fighting their efforts, so making headway with reforms will be an uphill battle.

分解してみて行きましょうか。

3段落ですが、4文ですね。

分けるとこうですね。

第一段落

Drug patents give pharmaceutical firms a temporary monopoly that helps them afford the investment requisite for producing novel medicines.

第二段落

Moreover, one downstream consequence of this system is that pharmaceutical companies are able to continue charging high fees for drugs by making minor tweaks to them to be awarded new patents.

第三段落

Now, to prevent such practices that go against the spirit of the system, some lawmakers recommend stricter criteria for the issuing of new patents to clamp down on monopolies and promote more medical breakthroughs.

Unfortunately, however, the pharmaceutical industry has more abundant resources than reformers and is fighting their efforts, so making headway with reforms will be an uphill battle.

まず、やることは本文から上記に相当する該当文を抜くことです。（文中の不要な箇所は端折ります）

第一段落

drug patents provide pharmaceutical companies with the exclusive right to sell a new medicine for a set period.

helps the companies recover their significant investment in research and development.

第二段落

the system also creates a serious issue

apply for new patents on existing drugs that have undergone only minimal changes.

第三段落

lawmakers

would like to create stricter legal standards

reduce the number of monopolies

encourage companies to invest in making significant medical advancements

The pharmaceutical industry possesses vast wealth and influence.

successfully changing the law will be a difficult task.

これらをつなげていきます。

The drug patents provide pharmaceutical companies with the exclusive right to sell a new medicine for a set period. This helps the companies recover their significant investment in research and development.

However, the system also creates a serious issue. Companies apply for new patents on existing drugs that have undergone only minimal changes.

The lawmakers would like to create stricter legal standards to reduce the number of monopolies and encourage companies to invest in making significant medical advancements. As the pharmaceutical industry possesses vast wealth and influence, successfully changing the law will be a difficult task.

これで96語です。語数の指定は90語～110語なので、ぴったりですね。（2025年度より語数は目安でなく指定となっています。）

言い換えます。

For a predetermined amount of time, pharmaceutical companies have the sole right to market new medications thanks to drug patents. This aids the businesses in recouping their large R&D expenditures.
But the system also causes a significant problem.

Businesses submit new patent applications for already-approved medications with only minor modifications.

In order to lessen the number of monopolies and encourage businesses to invest in making important medical advancements, the lawmakers would like to establish more stringent legal requirements. It will be challenging to successfully change the law because of the pharmaceutical industry's enormous wealth and power.

（同じく96語です）

ちょっと横着して、Re-write言い換え・書き換えしてくれるサイトを使いました。

Paragraph-rewriter

筆者が思った模範解答への疑問は下記2点でした。

・アメリカと言わなくて良いのか？

・第二段落で消費者が不利益を被っていることに言及しなくて良いのか？

アメリカの部分に関しては、各段落で繰り返して出てきますので、あえて模範解答で削っているのは解せないです。確かに要約は固有名詞等を入れないのは原則ですが、この文はあくまで米国限定の事情でしたので、入れるべきと感じました。

消費者が高いお金を払い続けなければならない不利益は筆者は非常に重要だと思いました。模範解答を読んでいけば類推できるとは思いますが、まだ語数の余裕もありましたので、入れることは出来たと思います。

どうでしょう。まず本文から該当文を抜き出すことが先決です。

それをつなげるだけで合格点はもらえると思います。

慣れていなければ、抜き出してつなげることに集中してください。

言い回しを変えることは、次のステップで良いです。