보카바이블닷컴 | [2008] 서강대 편입학 기출어휘 분석(1.12) - 복원완료

[Question 1-5] [동의어 문제] Choose one answer that has the closest meaning to the underlined part in the given passage(s).   1. As Audrey walked into her apartment, her eye caught something on the table. She was surprised because she thought she cleaned off the table before she left the apartment that morning. ① she held onto ② she stopped the motion of ③ she noticed suddenly ④ she grabbed   【정답】③ catch one´s eye 눈에 띄다   2. After being told that he had wrecked their car, his parents sat there with angry looks on their faces, but they never said a word. It was a silence he could no longer bear, so he got up and walked out of the room. ① carry around ② tolerate ③ understand ④ deny   【정답】② tolerate 참다 (=bear) [보카바이블 표제어 4253]   3. Most academics tend to view Americans as monolingual, yet one only has to step into any American metropolitan space to find oneself surrounded by an overwhelming variety of languages and ethnic identities. ① linguistically talented ② overwhelmed by a variety of languages ③ being WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) ④ unable to speak at least one other language   【정답】④ monolingual 1개 국어를 사용하는 [F3145]   4. According to the International Center for Prison Studies, the U.S. currently has the largest documented prison population in the world. We've got (A) roughly 2.03 million people behind bars. China has the second-largest number of prisoners (1.51 million), and Russia has 865,000 prisoners. ① approximately ② statistically ③ objectively ④ factually   【정답】① roughly 대략(=approximately) [B32] * 동의어 그대로 출제     [Question 16-17] [문장완성] Find the word that would complete the sentence.    16. The strong wind ______ the man's efforts to put up the tent. ① disabled ② hampered ③ deranged ④ regaled   【정답】② hamper 방해하다, 훼방하다 [표제어 2522] * 강한 바람이 그 남자가 텐트를 칠려는 노력을 훼방했다. ① disable 무능력하게 하다 [표제어 1551] ③ derange 흐트러뜨리다, 어지럽히다 [H14] ④ regale 즐겁게 해주다, 융숭히 대접하다 [H33]   17. Sigmund Freud has been out of the scientific mainstream for so long and it's easy to forget that in the early-20th century he was regarded as a ______ man of science -- not, as he is remembered today, as the founder of the marginalized form of therapy known as psychoanalysis. ① towering ② new ③ minor ④ pseudo-scientific   【정답】① towering 우뚝 솟은, 매우 높은; 훌륭한 [H40]   [Question 18-20] Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow. <TABLE class=바탕글 id=table8 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="100%" bgColor=purple border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=white>  Scientists who study meteorites do so in a ______ way. Rather than looking at objects from afar, they actually hold the products of stars and remnants of scattered planets in their hands in the form of meteorites. Locked within these rocks from space are tiny pieces of the solar system that predate even the planets. Tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered from the far corners of our world. Although these space rocks can be classified in dozens of ways, meteoriticists divide them into two main categories: those that preserve a record of the solar nebula--the growth of microscopic grains to planet-size bodies--and those that preserve evidence of subsequent planetary processes--such as volcanism, interior melting, impacts, and fragmentation.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> 18. Which one of the following words would fill in the parenthesis best? ① simple ② tangible ③ spectacular ④ scientific   【정답】② tangible 만져서 할 수 있는, 실체가 있는 [보카바이블 표제어 4214]   19. Which one of the following words from the passage refers to a different thing from the rest? ① meteorites ② tiny pieces of the solar system ③ space rocks ④ microscopic grains   【정답】④     [Question 31-35] Read the following text and answer the questions that follow each. <TABLE class=바탕글 id=table12 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="100%" bgColor=purple border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=white>  American culture thrives on contradictions. It (  A  ) individualism yet is (a) rife with the conformity so essential to consumerism. It preaches self-reliance and personal accountability (especially for poor people) while enriching pop psychologists who provide excuses for sins of the middle class. It nurtures feminism and encourages face-lifts. So we shouldn't be entirely surprised by the (  B  ) convergence of reality TV shows with a growing concern about privacy, although the intensity of these opposing trends is particularly dramatic. (b) Democratic and Republican pollsters attest to a "groundswell" of concern about privacy, which politicians rush to address. George W. Bush declares himself a "privacy rights person." Congress considers hundreds of privacy protection bills. (c) Still, people cede their privacy voluntarily every day for the promise for security.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> 31. Identify the word that best fills in (A). ① excavates ② exalts ③ exaggerates ④ extemporizes   【정답】② exalt (신분, 지위 따위를) 높이다, 찬양하다 [F2532] ① excavate 발굴하다 [H17] ③ exaggerate 과장하다 [표제어 2035] ④ extemporize 임시변통을 하다 [D2742]     32. Identify the word that best fills in (B). ① parallel ② paradigmatic ③ practical ④ paradoxical   【정답】④   33. Find a word or a phrase that can replace (a). ① full of ② contending with ③ delectable ④ liable to    【정답】① rife with 수없이 많은, 가득찬(=full of) [B32] * 동의어 그대로 출제