2005학년도 제 2학기 숭실대학교 일반 편입학 시험 문제

[1-3] Choose the most appropriate expression for each blank.

[1] ______________ in the power of computer chips have enabled robotics researchers to build machines that are capable of thinking on their feet.

① Vast advancing                 ② Vastly advanced

③ Vast advances                  ④ Its vast advance

[2] The extended family is a household ______________ related adults and married couples from different generations.

① is consisting of                 ② consisting of

③ consists of                      ④ consisted of

[3] If we deplete resources by consuming them ______________, we are depriving future generations of the opportunity to use them.

① fast that they can replenish

② fast that they can be replenished

③ faster than they can be replenishing

④ faster than they can be replenished

[4-5] Choose the one that is grammatically INCORRECT.

[4] ① Having invented more than 5,000 years ago in China, Feng Shui, the ancient Asian art of arranging one's environment, ② has been practiced for centuries in many eastern cultures and ③ is now gaining interest among Westerners ④ as well .

[5] The pattern of naming in the English language ① began with single names because, ② when people lived together in small communities, the supply of names was ③ large enough so that none had to ④ repeat in the same tribe or group.

[6-10] Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined word.

[6] He was one of the most despicable circus clowns ever to perform in North America.

① amusing       ② awkward      ③ awful         ④ agreeable

[7] The teenager was sent to life imprisonment for committing fratricide .

① killing one's mother            ② killing one's brother  

③ killing one's parents            ④ killing one's father

[8] Do you actually believe you'll win praise for being so negligent ?

① unpleasant     ② ambitious      ③ careful        ④ forgetful

[9] The peasants think their country is slowly turning into a plutocracy .

① government of the rich         ② government of the poor

③ government of the many       ④ government of the few

[10] I think he may have lost his job in broadcasting because he was too tenacious .

① aggressive     ② lazy     ③ hardworking    ④ persistent

[11-13] Read the following passage and answer the questions.

According to a new study, the natural tendency of the human brain to reduce life's uncertainties saps everyday experience of its poignancy. In the experiment, study participants watched an abridged version of Rudy , an uplifting film about a determined football player. The subjects then read two stories about what happened to Rudy later in life; half were told which story was true, while the other half were left in the dark. Even though both stories had happy endings, the group that found out the truth felt less cheerful than the group left wondering. In other words, (1) _________________________________. Researchers chalk up their results to what they call the "pleasure paradox." The urge to understand events may reduce the joy we take in them. "A wonderful thing about the human mind is its ability to make sense of a complex world," says Timothy D. Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia and lead author of the study. When we confront negative experiences, our knack for finding meaning helps us cope. But on the flip side, Wilson says, we rationalize positive experiences; as they come to seem more (2) ___________, they lose their (3) ___________ intensity. Yet small surprises may safely and simply boost your happiness, according to Wilson. Even though it sounds counterintuitive, you may feel merrier if you don't know exactly how a movie ends.

[11] Which of the following fits best in blank (1)?

① the more people understood, the more pleasure they felt

② the more people had pleasure, the less understanding they had

③ the less people understood, the more pleasure they felt

④ the less people had pleasure, the more understanding they had

[12] Which of the following fits best in blanks (2) and (3)?

     (2)                          (3)

① positive         ..........     intellectual

② predictable     ..........     emotional

③ negative        ..........     physical

④ uncertain       ..........     spiritual

[13] Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for this passage?

① Mystery Is the Spice of Life

② Think Positively and Overcome Your Fears

③ Pleasure Is the Goal of Human Existence

④ Variety Makes Life Worth Living

[14-16] Read the following passage and answer the questions.

Parents would certainly deny it , but researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones. Researchers in Canada carefully observed how parents treated their children during trips to the supermarket. They found that physical attractiveness made a big difference. The researchers noted if the parents (a) belted their youngsters into the grocery cart seat, how often the parents' attention lapsed and the number of times the children were allowed to engage in potentially dangerous activities like standing up in the shopping cart. They also rated each child's physical attractiveness on a 10-point scale. When it came to (b) buckling up , pretty and ugly children were treated in starkly different ways, with seat belt use ______________. When a woman was in charge, 4 percent of the homeliest children were (c) strapped in compared with 13.3 percent of the most attractive children. The difference was even more acute when fathers led the shopping expedition. In those cases, none of the least attractive children were secured with seat belts, while 12.5 percent of the prettiest children were. Homely children were also more often out of sight of their parents, and they were more often allowed to (d) wander more than 10 feet away.

[14] What does the underlined word " it " in the first line refer to?

① Children these days do not respect their parents.

② Parents care for prettier kids more than uglier ones.

③ Physical attractiveness is inherited from parents.

④ Parents do not like to go outdoors with their kids.

[15] Which of the following phrases fits best in the blank?

① increasing in direct proportion to attractiveness

② spreading rapidly all around the country

③ diminishing sharply as the kids grow up

④ required for parents as well as children

[16] Among the underlined words (a), (b), (c), and (d), which one does NOT mean the same as the others?

① (a) belted                       ② (b) buckling up

③ (c) strapped in                 ④ (d) wander

[17-19] Read the following passage and answer the questions.

Researchers say malnutrition in the first few years of life leads to antisocial and aggressive behavior throughout childhood and late adolescence. For 14 years, researchers followed the nutritional, behavioral, and cognitive development of children who lived on Mauritius. The children's intelligence level and cognitive ability were also tested, and social workers visited their homes to come up with a so-called adversity score that summarized factors such as the income, occupation, health, age, and education levels of their parents and their overall living conditions. At ages 8, 11, and 17 years, the researchers looked at how the children were behaving in school and at home. Over time, a link became evident between malnourishment and antisocial or aggressive behavior, said Dr. Raine. (1) _______________ those in the control group--the group that did not suffer from nutritional deficiencies--malnourished children showed a 41 percent increase in aggression at age 8 and a 51 percent increase in violent and antisocial behavior at age 17. While social class did not play a significant factor in behavior, intelligence level did, Raine said. "Poor nutrition, characterized by zinc, iron, vitamin B, and protein deficiencies, leads to low IQ, which leads to later antisocial behavior," he said. "These are all nutrients linked to brain development." Researchers also found that the more indicators of malnutrition there were, the greater the antisocial behavior. "(2)__________ is not destiny," Raine said.

[17] Which of the following fits best in blank (1)?

① Compared to                    ② Notwithstanding

③ On the other hand               ④ Besides

[18] Which of the following fits best in blank (2)?

① Sociology                       ② Biology

③ Criminology                     ④ Anthropology

[19] According to the passage, which of the following is CORRECT?

① Malnourished children gradually become more antisocial but less aggressive.

② Protein insufficiencies in kids have a negative effect on the development of their brains.

③ Prenatal nutritional deficiencies are usually the result of genetic factors.

④ The harmful behavioral effects of poor nutrition tend to disappear in adolescence.

[20-22] Read the following passage and answer the questions.

Marriage in the Middle Ages was almost exclusively a social, family concern--as it has been forever, of course, in Asia, and is to this day for many in the West. One was married according to family arrangements. (   1   ) Particularly in aristocratic circles, young women hardly out of girlhood were married off as political pawns. And the Church, meanwhile, was sacramentalizing such unions with its inappropriately mystical language about the two that were now to be of one flesh, united through love and by God. (   2   ) For not only could one be burned at the stake in punishment for adultery, but, according to current belief, one would also burn forever in Hell. And yet love came, even so, to such noble hearts as were celebrated by Gottfried; not only came, but was invited in.      (   3   ) And it was the work of the troubadours to celebrate this passion, which in their view was of a divine grace altogether highly in dignity than the sacraments of the Church, higher than the sacrament of marriage, and, if excluded from Heaven, then sanctified in Hell. (   4   ) And that the word AMOR (love) was the reverse in spelling of ROMA seemed marvelously to epitomize the sense of the ________________; the Roman empire once ruthlessly persecuted the Church.

[20] Choose the most appropriate place for the following sentence.

① ( 1 )         ② ( 2 )         ③ ( 3 )         ④ ( 4 )

[21] According to the passage, which of the following statements is CORRECT?

① Aristocratic women in the Middle Ages married whomever they wanted to.

② Adultery in the Middle Ages was not a serious crime.

③ The troubadours opposed the Church's concept of love.

④ The Church thought that true love was possible only in Hell.

[22] Which of the following words fits best in the blank?

① similarity  ② meaninglessness  ③ inevitability  ④ contrast

[23-25] Read the following passage and answer the questions.

It is necessary to bear in mind that the judicial records in the seventeenth century reveal two essential facts about accused witches: they were poor, and they were usually women. Learned authorities never had any doubt that the weaker sex was more vulnerable to the temptations of Satan. James I estimated the ratio of female witches to male at twenty to one. Alexander Roberts put it as high as a hundred to one. In fact, of the one hundred and nine persons whom Mr. Ewen showed to have been executed on the Home Circuit only seven were men. Contemporary writers also agreed that witches came from the lowest ranks of society. They were usually beggars, thought Scot; "very miserable poor, the basest sort of people," said Richard Bernard. "Witches for the most part live in extreme beggary," agreed John Donne. Of nearly six hundred persons accused on the Home Circuit, Ewen calculated that all but four were tradesmen, husbandmen, and laborers, or their womenfolk. Elsewhere the general pattern appears to be the same. Laborers and their wives or widows always predominate. This was not because witch-beliefs did not circulate in the higher reaches of society.  ____________, they were familiar at every social level.  But in the witch trials the accused were overwhelmingly drawn from the bottom of the social hierarchy.

[23] Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for this passage?

① What Did Witches Do?

② Why Were Witches Persecuted?

③ Who Were the Witches?

④ How Were Witches Executed?

[24] According to the passage, which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

① Most 17th century witches were recruited from the economic elite.

② Most of the executed witches were female rather than male.

③ Widowers had less chance of becoming witches than widows.