EBS 2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Mini Test 2 필자의 주장~어휘

2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Mini Test 2 필자의 주장~어휘 문제들을 Keywords, phrases, clauses, sentences을 찾은 후 글의 내용 파악해서 문제풀이를 하겠습니다.

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고딕체와 밑줄만 잘 보면 답이 보인다

 

2024년 서울대 진학률이 높은 고등학교 전국 37개 학교

 

[문제] 3 다음 글에서 필자가 주장하는 바로 가장 적절한 것은?

The presence of a group of young people ‘hanging out’ typically conjures suspicions of inappropriate and illicit behavior by adults. Public settings are often the preferred location for these informal gatherings, yet business owners, city officials, and other adults see this activity as a misuse of the space and regularly impose policy and design changes to restrict the behavior. From noise devices to removing seating, the message youth receive is one of exclusion. Instead, opportunities for young people to gather with their friends and meet new people are an important developmental need. When they cannot find a public place, or are excluded from the ones available, youth retreat to less visible areas for their socializing activities. These removed places are more likely to spur more negative behaviors because they lack informal supervision found on places like malls, cafés, and city streets. A societal understanding and acceptance of youth hanging out in public places is essential.

* conjure: 불러일으키다 ** illicit: 불법적인 *** spur: 자극하다

① 아이들의 오감 발달을 위해 다양한 공간이 제공되어야 한다.

② 젊은 사람들이 공공장소에서 어울려 놀 수 있도록 허용해야 한다.

③ 다양한 사회적 가치와 요구를 수용하여 지역 개발을 계획해야 한다.

④ 공공장소에서 타인을 배려하며 행동하도록 아이들을 가르쳐야 한다.

⑤ 청소년들과 상호 작용을 잘하려면 그들의 가치관과 문화를 이해해야 한다.

 

 

[문제] 4 밑줄 친 we close the door to the outside world가 다음 글에서 의미하는 바로 가장 적절한 것은?

The extinction of sensory diversity has many causes: technologies that deliver poisons; ever-rising carbon dioxide levels; economies that force the costs of production onto other people and other species, the “externalities” of business; and ever-expanding human appetites and numbers that shoulder out other species. All these social and economic factors exist in a culture of inattention and lack of appreciation. Our ears are directed inward, to the chatter of our own species. Introductions to the sounds of the thousands of species that live in our neighborhoods have no place in most school curricula. We generally regard human language and music as outside nature, disconnected from the voices of others. When a concert starts, we close the door to the outside world. Books and software that teach us “foreign” languages include only the voices of other humans. Public monuments to sound are rare and honor a handful of canonical human composers, not the sonic history of the living Earth.

* canonical: 권위 있는 ** sonic: 소리의

① We lose our ability to predict sound from sight.

② We neglect the impact of human noise on other species.

③ We prioritize music over the language of our own species.

④ We fail to appreciate the sounds of the surrounding nature.

⑤ We disregard the importance of language diversity in our education.

 

감각 다양성의 소멸의 원인: 인간은 자연의 소리를 무시하고 인간의 소리에만 집중하므로 다양한 감각이 소멸하고 있다는 글 내용을 이해해야 답이 보인다.

[문제] 5 다음 글의 요지로 가장 적절한 것은?

A tough runner isn’t one [who is blind with ambition or confidence], but one [who can accurately assess the demands and the situation]. The magic is in aligning actual and expected demands. When our assessment of our capabilities is out of sync with the demands, we get the schoolchildren version of performance: starting a project with reckless confidence, only to look up and realize the work it involves. When such a mismatch exists, we’re more likely to spiral toward doubts and insecurities, and to ultimately abandon our pursuit. [When actual and expected demands align], we’re able to pace to perfection, or outside of the athletic realm, perform up to our current capabilities. It’s why experienced writers don’t go into their first draft expecting perfection. They understand it’s going to be messy, and often not that good. Contrary to old-school toughness wisdom, a touch of realistic doubt keeps us on track and makes it more likely [that we will persist].

* align: 조화시키다, 동일선에 있다 ** reckless: 무모한 *** spiral: (소용돌이치며) 빠져들다

 

① 실패의 원인을 분석하는 것은 좋은 성과를 가져온다.

② 타인과의 비교를 통해 자신의 한계를 극복할 수 있다.

③ 자신의 능력에 대한 의심을 멈추면 장점을 극대화하게 된다.

④ 미래의 변화를 예측하고 적극적으로 대처하는 자세가 필요하다.

⑤ 자신의 능력과 현실적 요구에 맞춰 기대치를 설정하는 것이 중요하다.

 

[문제] 6 다음 글의 주제로 가장 적절한 것은?

Given the extensive behavioral repertoire of most social insect colonies, it would be easy to dismiss task partitioning as a relatively unique organizational principle limited primarily to foraging, with a few other examples found in nest building and waste management. To do this would be to dramatically underestimate the importance of task partitioning in those species that perform it. Foraging is a critical task within any social insect colony and it typically involves a relatively high proportion of workers. In the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica, the vast majority of workers working outside the nest are either involved with foraging or with waste management, both of which involve task partitioning. Many workers inside the nest are involved with processing leaves to incorporate into the fungus gardens, which also involves task partitioning. Overall, a large proportion of the total workforce may be involved in partitioned tasks, despite these tasks being only a small subset of the total colony task repertoire.

* forage: 먹이를 찾다 ** fungus: 균류, 곰팡이류

① differences in task partitioning between ant species

② significance of task partitioning in social insect colonies

③ types of tasks performed by workers in an insect colony

④ limitations of foraging and gardening in leaf-cutting ants

⑤ communication methods leaf-cutting ants use to partition tasks

[문제] 7 다음 글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은?

Our personal perception of reality is distorted in many ways, so in communication between two people it is two individual realities that are distorted in different ways trying to make sense of each other. And on top of that, we tend to understand words, concepts, ideas, feelings from our own standpoint. You imagine that this person’s worldview is similar to yours. He says that what his drink tastes like is a lychee milkshake. He meant that it tastes bad because he hates lychee, but you think he loves his drink because you love lychee. And this is just an example of a benign misunderstanding due to lack of perspective taking, the ability to get into somebody else’s head. Indeed, our poor ability to imagine [what is going on inside someone’s mind], which typically stands in striking discrepancy with our confidence in our ability to do so, makes human communication a risky business.

* lychee: 리치(열대성 과일의 일종) ** benign: 악의 없는, 온화한

*** discrepancy: 어긋남, 불일치

① The Power of Facial Expressions in Communication

② The Importance of Personal Expression in Negotiation

③ How Come We Are Disconnected from Our True Selves?

④ Honest Conversation: A Key to Understanding Each Other

⑤ Failure to Understand Each Other’s Perspective: A Communication Obstacle

 

[문제] 12 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 어법상 틀린 것은?

The health benefits ①< associated with the consumption of organic food> can vary. In general, your skin’s condition will show improvement as your skin absorbs the higher doses of antioxidants found in organic food. Antioxidants are found in both organic and ② commercially produced food, but the level of antioxidants found in organic products is much higher as it has not been altered by farming chemicals. Other reported health benefits of eating more organic food ③ include a higher level of energy, and higher alertness along with healthier looking skin, hair and nails. But the benefits don’t end there. If you really think about it, you will end up saving money on cosmetics and other beauty products trying to correct problems associated with unhealthy skin, hair and nails. There are also several studies and reports mentioning ④ what going organic, or eating more organic food in your diet can better protect you from the risk of getting breast cancer. That’s another very valid reason justifying ⑤ starting a diet of organic food.

* antioxidant: 노화[산화] 방지제

 

There are also several studies and reports mentioning ④ [what going organic, or eating more organic food in your diet can better protect you from the risk of getting breast cancer]. 완전한 문장이므로 that으로 고쳐야 한다.

[문제] 13 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 문맥상 낱말의 쓰임이 적절하지 않은 것은?

One factor [that contributed to the decline in scientific endeavor during the last days of the Roman Empire] was the diminishing knowledge of the Greek language. The motivation to learn a second language decreases as a function of economic dominance. In particular, members of non-dominant groups are ① eager to learn a language in addition to their mother tongue, in order to improve their life circumstances and (in the case of scientists) to enlarge their audience. As a consequence, the ‘universal language’ of science has always closely ② followed the shifts in economic dominance. Because the Romans dominated the other nations, it became increasingly ③ necessary to study languages other than Latin, whereas more and more individuals became inclined to learn Latin as a second language, rather than Greek. As a result, a language barrier emerged between the Romans and Greek science. This was partly alleviated by an increased ④ availability of Latin translations, but translations did not conserve the full richness of the Greek legacy. Only the works that were thought to be of interest to the Romans made it into Latin and were ⑤ preserved.

* alleviate: 완화하다 ** legacy: 유산

 

[Because the Romans dominated the other nations], it became increasingly ③ necessary <to study languages other than Latin>, whereas more and more individuals became inclined to learn Latin as a second language, rather than Greek. 로마인들이 라틴어 이외의 언어는 배울 필요가 없어지고 있는 현상 따라서 necessary를 unnecessary로 바꾸어야 한다.