最近、ある中学校が有名になりました。この学校は丘の上にあり、周りは急な斜面になっています。この斜面は人が入りにくく、草取りができないため、草がたくさん生えて虫も増え、みんな困っていました。
そこで、学校は①この問題を解決するために面白い方法を考えました。1年に2回、1か月ずつ羊を借りてきて草を食べさせるのです。
去年の春、初めて4頭の羊が来ました。羊はどんどん草を食べたので、土地はすぐにきれいになりました。羊は秋にも来ましたが、②春とは違うことがありました。来た羊は春と同じでしたが、草が減るのが遅かったのです。秋の草は少し硬くて食べにくかったようです。でも、しばらくすると土地はまたきれいになりました。
羊が来てよかったことは、③土地がきれいになったことだけではありません。近所の人たちが毎日羊を見に来るようになり、ふだんは話す機会の少ない中学生たちとも次第に交流が生まれていったのです。
みんな、次に羊が来るのを楽しみにしています。
（注）斜面：ここでは、坂のように二斜めになっている土地
AI translation, cross-checked between two models.
Recently, a certain junior high school has become well known. The school is located on a hill and is surrounded by steep slopes. Because these slopes are difficult for people to enter, the weeds could not be cleared; grass grew thick, insects increased, and everyone was troubled by the situation.
So, to ①solve this problem, the school came up with an interesting method. Twice a year, the school borrows sheep for one month and lets them eat the grass.
Last spring, four sheep came for the first time. The sheep kept eating the grass, so the grounds quickly became clean. The sheep came again in autumn, but there was something ②different from spring. The sheep were the same ones that had come in spring, but the grass disappeared more slowly. It seems that the autumn grass was a little tough and harder to eat. Still, after a while, the grounds became clean again.
The good thing about having the sheep come was not only that ③the grounds became clean. People from the neighborhood began coming to see the sheep every day, and little by little they also began interacting with the junior high school students, whom they normally had few chances to talk with.
Everyone is looking forward to the sheep’s next visit.
(Note) 斜面: here, land that slopes like a hill.
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