2024학년도 수능 영어 23번 주제 문제, 키워드, 풀이

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23. 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은?

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Managers of natural resources typically face market incentives [that provide financial rewards for exploitation].

 

For example, owners of forest lands have a market incentive to cut down trees rather than manage the forest for carbon capture, wildlife habitat, flood protection, and other ecosystem services.

 

These services provide the owner with no financial benefits, and thus are unlikely to influence management decisions. But the economic benefits <provided by these services, based on their non-market values,> may exceed the economic value of the timber.

 

For example, a United Nations initiative has estimated [that the economic benefits of ecosystem services <provided by tropical forests, including climate regulation, water purification, and erosion prevention,> are over three times greater per hectare than the market benefits.]

 

Thus cutting down the trees is economically inefficient, and markets are not sending the correct “signal” to favor ecosystem services over extractive uses.

*exploitation: 이용 **timber: 목재

 

키워드: natural resources, Manage, exploit, rewards

 

풀이: 천연자원들을 착취(이용)함으로써 보답을 가질 것이냐, 아님 관리함으로써 보답을 가질 것이냐의 문제에서  근시안적으로 보는 것보다는 원시안적으로 본다면 답을 쉽게 고를 수 있었을 문제이다.

 

정답유추해 보기

① necessity of calculating the market values of ecosystem services

② significance of weighing forest resources’ non-market values

③ impact of using forest resources to maximize financial benefits

④ merits of balancing forests’ market and non-market values

⑤ ways of increasing the efficiency of managing natural resources