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개인적으로 궁금합니다. 전 매우 어렵게 해결했습니다. 시간소요도 꽤 있었고요.

그래서 제 독해력이 아직 부족하구나...라는 생각을 했는데요.

문득, 독해력이 뛰어난 다른 분들은 이런 문제를 해결하는데 정말 어려움이 없는지 궁금해졌습니다.

두 문제 모두 한국교육과정평가원에서 출제한 문제로 공신력은 최고입니다.

[1] 2010년 9월 평가원 28번

28. With no attempt there can be no failure and with no failure no humiliation. So our self-esteem in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities. Thus, ___________________________. This ilustrates how every rise in our levels of expectation entails a rise in the dangers of humiliation. What we understand to be normal is critical in determining our chances of happiness. It also hints at two ways for raising our self-esteem. On the one hand, we may try to achieve more; and on the other hand, we may reduce the number of things we want to achieve. The advantage of the latter approach lie in the following statement: To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.
 
① the higher your expectations are, the more you will achieve
② self-esteem can be increased by lowering actualities
③ success divided by pretensions equals self-esteem
④ early failures in life may lead to happiness later in life
⑤ more supposed potentialities increase chances of happiness

[2] 2011년 수능 26번

26. So far as you are wholly concentrated on bringing about a certain result, clearly the quicker and easier it is brought about the better. Your resolve to secure a sufficiency of food for yourself and your family will induce you to spend weary days in tilling the ground and tending livestock; but if Nature provided food and meat in abundance ready for the table, you would thank Nature for sparing you much labor and consider yourself so much the better off. An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction in which the time and energy spent on the execution are balanced against the resulting assets, and the ideal case is one in which ________________. Purpose, then, justifies the efforts it exacts only conditionally, by their fruits. 

 
① demand exceeds supply, resulting in greater returns
② life becomes fruitful with our endless pursuit of dreams
③ the time and energy are limitless and assets are abundant
④ Nature does not reward those who do not exert efforts
⑤ the former approximates to zero and the latter to infinity

( EBS해설 첨부했습니다 )

2010 평가원 29번 해설.pdf

2011 수능 26번 해설.pdf