2010 고려대학교 편입 어휘문제 적중률 93.4%

어휘문제(동의어 찾기, 빈 칸 넣기)와 독해문제에 출제된 어휘 및 보기문항에 나온 전체 106단어 중 99단어 적중

※ 워드스펀지 어휘 적중률 93.4% (조사 어휘 106단어는 고 3 수준 이상의 어휘부터 다루었습니다.)

- 비적중 어휘 7개 - spellbind, flummox, foreground, tonics, anodyne, stark, choreography

 

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21. The Internet and online shopping have changed how people make purchases. But one shopping need has continued to _______ shoppers: gifts. It is difficult to find the perfect gift for a loved one who seemsto have everything or a friend who is just impossible to please.

A. spellbind
B. galvanizer
C. entice
D. flummox


22. Many retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with virtual stores that have fewer or no physical assets, little or no inventory or real estate, and therefore greatly reduced overhead costs. Holding property of all kinds is a hindrance for a growing number of retailers in the new era of near _______ commerce.

A. bogus
B. weightless
C. lavish
D. tangible


23. Inequality can _______ other problems, uneven wealth distribution makes it more difficult to cope with ethnic conflicts, demographic pressures and even natural calamities.

A. deflect
B. obliterate
C. exacerbate
D. alleviate


24. Guidelines for bone health maintenance have been recently developed. Practical strategies designed to monitor bone health offer the potential to _______ increased fracture risk.

A. expedite
B. amplify
C. foreground
D. abrogate


25. The capacity for ________ is believed to be innate in most humans, as well as some other species ─ chimps, for instance, will protest unfair treatment of others, refusing to accept a treat they have rightfully earned if another chimp doing the same work fails to get the same reward.


A. empathy
B. egotism(egoism)
C. adaption
D. resilience


26. A(n) ________ man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the one will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

A. discerning
B. indiscreet
C. pensive
D. abstemious

 

27. Fame was such a large part of the singer's life that it had to be part of his art. In retrospect, his willingness to let life bleed into art, and art in life, seems remarkably ________. Today it is a prerequisite for stardom.

A. prescient (prescience)
B. myopic
C. impudent
D. supercilious


28. Formal politeness in language is on the decline thanks to globalization, to social changes and to technology. Replacing it is a kind of neutral friendliness, where human encounters take place ________ the signifiers of emotional and status differences.

A. sorely through
B. replete with
C. devoid of
D. surrounded by


29. World War I left Europe devastated ─ not just its cities and its people but also its understanding of itself. A moment of insanity that severed the links between Europe and its idealized past, the war seemed afterward to required a sustained period of calm as a(n) ________.

A. placebo
B. antidote
C. incentive
D. hiatus

 

30. Sculpture designed to stand against a wall or in a niche may be freestanding in the sense that it is not attached to its background like a relief; but it does not have the ________ of completely, freestanding sculpture, and it is not designed to be viewed all around.

A. figurative complexity
B. aesthetic innovation
C. structural elegance
D. spatial independence


31. There is a special quality of understanding that comes from ________a large body of source such as a novelist's letters or a ministry's papers of diplomatic traffic. With prolonged immersion, you get a deep sense of priorities, characters, and thought patterns.

A. exposure to
B. concealment of
C. detachment from
D. eschewing of


32. The desire of so many people, given the chance, to live in countries other than their own makes nonsense of a long-established consensus in philosophy that the human animal is ________. The error of philosophy has been to assume that man, because he is a social animal, should belong to some particular society.

A. inherently good at heart
B. driven to solitude
C. disposed to violence
D. best off at home


33. Plato's moral ideals appear both austere and ________; the soul is to remain aloof from the pleasures of the body; communal life demands the subordination of individual wishes and aims.

A. self-abnegating
B. self-fulfilling
C. self-congratulatory
D. self-confident


34. Romantics and later Bohemians searched for self-fulfillment in nature and in the arts, hoping to find a nonmaterialist road to progress. They evangelized for the uplifting of the human spirit and viewed the arts and aesthetic experience as ________ to a life of relentless toil and constant material accumulation.

A. hedonistic aspirations
B. ineluctable concessions
C. liberating tonics
D. sublime paths

 

35. From the perspective of human progress, science needs governing. Scientific progress needs to ________ moral progress. It can yield untold benefits, but only if people use it wisely.

A. dominate over
B. be hitched to
C. encroach upon
D. derived from


36. Hollywood has mutated from an industry of ________ corporations into the world's best example of a network economy. Eventually, every knowledge-intensive industry will end up in the same flattened atomized state. Hollywood just has gotten there first.


A. financially aligned
B. internally fragmented
C. flexibly structured
D. vertically integrated

 

37. Like a jazz band or drama company, football blends dazzling individual talent with selfless teamwork, thus solving a problem over which sociologists have long agonized: cooperation and ________ are cunningly balanced. Blind loyalty and internecine rivalry ________some of our most powerful evolutionary instincts.

A. solidarity(solidify) ─ disregard
B. entertainment ─ efface
C. competition ─ gratify
D. discretion ─ confound


38. The only natural society is the family; and even so the children remain attached to the father only so long as they need him for their ________. As soon as this need ceases, the natural bond is dissolved. The children, released from the obedience they owed to the father, and the father, released from the care he owed his children, return equally to ________.

A. security ─ righteousness
B. preservation ─ independence
C. health ─ retribution
D. solvency(solvenly) ─ altruism


39. Sitting on the couch immediately after work, glass in one hand, sell phone in the other with the TV blaring, is not unwinding. This can often ________ us further. There is nothing wrong with any of these outlets in moderation. But make a point to not dive directly into them. Take an hour to really ________ by avoiding the TV, phone, and computer.

A. exhaust ─ focus
B. discreet ─ concentrate
C. relax ─ recharge
D. stimulate ─ unplug


40. Culture, in most applied notions of multiculturalism, is an ________ representation of race, which is a historically constituted relation of organized inequality, domination and subordination. To speak blandly of a plurality of cultures in coexistence is to ________ the historic dominance of one over ,another.

A. anodyne ─ obscure
B. accurate ─ uncover
C. innocuous ─ subvert
D. ignorant ─ penetrate

 

[41-42] 관련 예문 중

41. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. attentive to misfortune
B. impervious to accidents
C. subject to continuity
D. vulnerable to chance

 

[43-45] 관련 예문 중

43. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. circular reasoning
B. heated debate
C. verbal sparring
D. conservative rhetoric

 

[46-48] 관련 예문 중

46. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. stark economic forces
B. environmental considerations
C. user-friendly interfaces
D. one-size-fits-all tendencies

 

[49-51] 관련 예문 중

49. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. Repulsed by this
B. Shying away from this
C. In concordance with this
D. Motivated by this

 

[52-54] 관련 예문 중

52. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. tight industrial choreography
B. stringent job eval!uation
C. impromptu machine orchestration
D. incessant laborer surveillance

 

[55-57] 관련 예문 중

55. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. multidimensional
B. parallel
C. convoluted
D. linear

 

[58-61] 관련 예문 중

59. Choose the one closest in meaning to the underlined "telling."
A. significant
B. succinct
C. superlative
D. suspect

61. What is the tone of the passage?
A. acclamatory(acclaim)
B. ambivalent
C. skeptical
D. exuberant

 

[64-66] 관련 예문 중

66. Choose the one that best fills in the blank.
A. leniently managed
B. centrally constructed
C. profit oriented
D. extrinsically motivated