1. Tom muttered a few words against the boss under his breath.

1) angrily             2) breathlessly

3) timidly              4) quietly

2. The cost was nominal in comparison with the value of what you received.

1) ineffective          2) insignificant

3) integral             4) substantial

3. To climb Mount Everest on a bicycle would be a stupendous accomplishment. 

1) unintelligent                2) strenuous 

3) monumental        4) energetic

4. The old man eschewed the company of anyone who knew about his past.

1) protested against   2) shunned

3) sought out          4) discharged

5. Mary wore a red, low-cut dress to the party, but her sister was dressed more decorously.

1) fashionably         2) fancifully

3) warmly             4) modestly

6. Fifty years later he knew, and they knew as well, that there was no way to rectify his betrayal.

1) correct             2) qualify      

3) integrate           4) disdain

【7-12】다음 문장의 밑줄 친 부분 중 문법적으로 가장 적절하지 못한 것을 고르시오. (각 2점)

7. Although both Stephen King and Tom Clancy

      1)     2)

  write thrilling books, King is the best storyteller.

         3)                    4)

8. Like Auden, the language of James Merrill

       1)

  is chatty, arch and controversial―given to complex                        2)           3)

  syntactic flights as well as to prosaic free-verse

                     4)

  strolls. 

9. Last year, land values in most parts of the

  pinelands rose almost as fast, and in some parts               1)          2)

  even faster than, those outside the pinelands.            3)            4)

10. Writers devote time to sketching out the                                1)

  structure of the piece and perhaps to obsess

                 2)                      3)

  a bit about their first few sentences.

                      4) 

11. You shouldn't help him; ever since you offered                   1)               2)

   him help, he has started to depend on others for

                               3)              4)

   his homework.

12. If Orville and Wilbur Wright hadn't gone to                                         1)

   Kitty  Hawk, North  Carolina, to  test  their

   flying machines, they might not have                                 2)

   encountered with the right winds to make           3)                            4)

   the launch possible.

【13-19】다음 빈 칸에 가장 적합한 단어 또는 어구를 고르시오. (각 2.5점)

13. As they helped the community recover from the storm's devastation, the apparently _______ relief workers worked around the clock with an energy that never seemed to wane. 

1) eloquent             2) obsequious 

3) indefatigable        4) transcendent

14. Paul's  grandmother  is  a __________ businesswoman; once she turned a small ice

cream shop into a popular restaurant and sold

it for a huge profit.

1) sagacious           2) repellent     

3) ludicrous            4) permeable

15. He should have worked on the article on a regular basis. Instead, he worked on it _______. When the deadline arrived, he wasn't ready.

1) deliberately          2) sporadically

3) incessantly          4) indelibly

16. The new manager was so _______ that he would change his mind whenever anyone disagreed with him.

1) pliable               2) orthodox

3) querulous           4) voracious

17. Jim's _______ behavior at the dance raised some eyebrows; he was certainly the only one who spent the night walking on his hands.

1) adroit               2) aberrant     

3) aesthetic           4) apposite

18. After the hurricane, the river was once again ________. It was hard to believe that only hours before it had been wild and dangerous.

1) buoyant             2) turbulent

3) ebullient             4) tranquil

19. Many scientific discoveries are a matter of _________: Newton was not sitting on the ground thinking about gravity when the apple dropped on his head.

1) serendipity          2) experimentation

3) technology          4) principle

【20-26】다음 빈 칸에 가장 적합한 단어 또는 어구를 고르시오. (각 3점)

20. Pearl isn't allowed to wear jeans to school, so she has gotten into the habit of leaving a pair of jeans in the bushes behind her house and changing into them in her best friend's garage. This little _________ is about to be discovered, however, because Pearl's mother is dropping in on the school unexpectedly today to bring her the lunchbox she left at home this morning.

1) procrastination      2) proclivity

3) frenzy               4) subterfuge

21. Because of his huge contribution to schools and charities, many people view Andrew Carnegie as a(n) ___________. Some historians, however, like to remind the public that Carnegie earned much of his money by paying his workers substandard wages. As he grew older, he may well have become a lover of mankind, but he didn't necessarily start out that way.

1) philologist           2) anthropologist

3) philanthropist         4) entrepreneur

22. Some plants require more light than others as a result of the colors of their leaves. Plants with shades of white, yellow, or pink in their leaves need more light than plants with completely green foliage. For example, a Swedish ivy plant with completely green leaves requires less light per day than a ________ Swedish ivy that contains shades of white, yellow, and green in its leaves.

1) crawling