05-2가톨릭대

[1-5] 밑줄 친 부분의 의미와 가장 가까운 것을 고르시오.

1.  I thought that the chairman's statement was irrelevant to the topic we were discussing.

 ① inappropriate for        ② consistent with

 ③ indifferent to           ④ critical toward

2. As far as power imbalance of the present regime is concerned, no politician can claim immunity.

 ① impurity               ② legality

 ③ exemption             ④ extinction

3. The scientists are busy finding out some evidence to prop up the hypothesis.

 ① realize                 ② support

 ③ repudiate              ④ cultivate

4. To lure more caring individuals to the field, schools are seeking older students as well as non-science majors.

 ① refer                  ② employ

 ③ entice                 ④ transform

5. For Koreans, losing face is a very serious matter, so negotiations involve a great deal of high-context behavior, including an abhorrence of saying no directly.

 ① compliance             ② loathing

 ③ prohibition             ④ formality

[6-10] 빈칸에 가장 알맞은 것을 고르시오.

6. He studied at the London School of Economics in 1995, but his subsequent attendance at Princeton was ________ by illness.

 ① curtailed               ② exacerbated

 ③ distorted               ④ condoned

7. In December 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S Navy at Pearl Harbor, thus _______ the United States' entry into the war against the Axis power.

 ① emancipating           ② accumulating

 ③ deteriorating            ④ precipitating

8. Until the mid-1800s, the Chinese and Korean governments decided to ______ themselves as much as possible from encounters with the imperialistic Western powers.

 ① accomodate            ② insulate

 ③ propagate              ④ confront

9. Many people outside the United States speak of cultural imperialism to describe the increasing global ________ of American popular culture.

 ① comprehension          ② tolerance

 ③ exclusion              ④ dominance

10. Kennedy was finally able to convince the Soviets that the United States would respond in kind, thereby ______ the nuclear war to which the world had come perilously close.

 ① averting               ② triggering

 ③ deploring              ④ forging

[11-17] 빈칸에 문법적으로 가장 알맞은 것을 고르시오.

11. The fly-over inspections ______________ after city officials learned that small trees were growing out of the rotted roofs of two adjacent three-story buildings.

 ① deemed necessary

 ② deemed necessarily

 ③ were deemed necessary

 ④ were deemed necessarily

12. We returned home wishing not that we had seen more places _____________________ more time to explore the ones we did.

 ① but we had            ② but that we had had

 ③ that we had had        ④ so that we had

13. The Sharp MPEG4 digital motion picture camera does for the web ______ earlier cameras did for still images.

 ① that                   ② which

 ③ of which               ④ what

14. The mysterious biological factor thus seems to be at work, but there is no unshakable theory yet ______ precisely how it works.

 ① as                    ② as to

 ③ that                   ④ in that

15. Americans have observed Black History Month every February since 1976 to spotlight some of the achievements of African Americans ______________ _____ in mainstream education.

 ① have long been overlooked

 ② have long been overlooking

 ③ that have long been overlooked

 ④ that have long been overlooking

16. Various stressful conditions such as stressful interviews and job stress _________ short term elevations in blood pressure.

 ① have found all to produce

 ② have found all to be produced

 ③ have all been found to produce

 ④ have all been found to be produced

17. Our boat was smaller and nimbler than the big ships, ____________________ and out of narrow inlets, and at liberty to slow down any time somebody saw a grizzly bear on shore.

 ① was able to get in

 ② its ability to get in

 ③ it was able to get in

 ④ able to get in

[18-25] 빈칸에 문맥상 가장 적절한 것을 고르시오.

18. The ever-widening wealth and income gap between the rich and everybody else has meant that a growing number of Americans now find themselves in the role of the impoverished in-law. Middle-income families have been saving at much lower rates than before -- indeed, even at negative rates for much of last year. They're also carrying record levels of credit-card debt and other loans, going without health insurance. In short, middle-income families are experiencing _______________________, largely because they are trying to keep up with a living standard they cannot afford.

 ① an unusual pace of accumulating wealth

 ② the impact of the high unemployment rate

 ③ unprecedented levels of economic distress

 ④ the exotic and fanciful life styles

19. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that individuals who spend even a few hours a week on-line experience higher levels of depression and loneliness than those who spend less or no time on the Internet. They also found that individuals who use the Internet more tend to decrease their communication with other family members and reduce the size of their social circle. These findings ________________ what we expect about how positively the Internet can be used.

 ① are counterintuitive to

 ② bear witness to

 ③ lead us to confirm

 ④ substantially underestimate

20. In England people remembered a day in 1910 which went down in the annals as "black Ascot." In memory of Edward VII, who had just died, all visitors to the court appeared in elegant black. It was the fashion event of the decade. Bearing this example in mind, widows of the society tried to do justice to the demands of mourning during wartime. The longer the war went on and the more victims it claimed, however, ________________________. Only a few women wore black for a whole year or limited their jewelry to black jet. Gray and even mauve were soon considered just as proper and widows began to wear pearls when they went out.

 ① the more abstract their fashion became

 ② the more conservative their fashion became

 ③ the more functional clothes became

 ④ the more relaxed clothing rules became

21. Historically, many Americans have viewed work idealistically, particularly in their public utterances. For example, Benjamin Franklin's widely read autobiography is usually seen as a statement of the work ethic, the belief that anyone can succeed financially through determined effort. Subscribing to that belief, many Americans revere self-made men and women as leaders and role models. At times the work ethic has also been used ____________ the economic effects of ethnocentrism and class bias. Convinced that we live in an egalitarian, classless society, most Americans disclaim ethnic biases and resist discussions of social class, which they regard as subversive or in poor taste.

 ① as a way of dismissing

 ② to promote the idea of

 ③ as a way of reinforcing

 ④ to verify the idea of

22. At the risk of oversimplifying, one could say that most of what college students do involves two complementary processes: analysis, the act of separating something into components; and synthesis, the act of generating new ideas and products through creative combinations of facts, ideas, or physical matter. Likewise, much of the thinking students are asked to do in college courses involves skepticism, by which one examines ideas critically; and belief, by which one often applies or extends an idea. Like analysis and synthesis, skepticism and belief _______ _____________; they are best understood as powerful intellectual strategies that work best in tandem.

 ① are hard to gain in contemporary college education

 ② are two contending faculties of human intelligence

 ③ should not be viewed as mutually exclusive activities

 ④ should be treated as two separate intellectual faculties

23. Until very recently, women _____________ in any of the major religions. In some, the roles of missionary and nun were offered to those women willing to undertake them, but these roles were usually subject to masculine authority and control. Women have been active in American Protestantism since the nineteenth century, but in most cases they have been used as helpers, depending on their aesthetic talents like flower arrangement or their pedagogical skills as church school teachers in training young children.

 ① were not described positively

 ② seldom moved out of secondary positions

 ③ did not play specific gender roles

 ④ were not free to display their opinions

24. The voice of the narrator in a memoir should be a trustworthy one. An unreliable narrator, interesting as it might be in fiction, wouldn't work at all in nonfiction. The writer of memoir enters into a particular kind of contact with the reader, declaring that the narrative is a true one. The reader must never sense that some important information is being withheld, or that the narrator is being __________ ________. Even over-arguing or over-explaining something can turn your reader off.

 ① manipulative or self-serving

 ② assertive and logical