형용사 독해 문제 - B - CLASS

1. "Hello, Silly Bill!" said Johnnie Watson, halting beside William Sylvanus Baxter. "What's the news?"

  ①The nickname "Silly Bill" was not to his taste, especially in public, where he preferred to be addressed simpy and manfully as "Baxter." Any direct ｅxpression of resentment, howerer, was difficult, ②since it was plain that Johnnie Watson intended no offensewhatever and but spoke out of custom.

  "Don't know any." William replied coldly.

  "Dull times. isn't it?" said Watson, ⓐa little depressed by his friend's manner. "I heard May Parcher was coming back to town yesterday, though."

  "Well, let her!" returned Milliam, still severe.

  "They said she was going to bring a girl to visit her." Jonnie began ⓑin a confidential tone. "They said she was an excellent beauty and -"

  Well, what if she is?" the discouraging Baxter interrupted. "Makes little diffenrence to me, I guess!"

  ⓒ"Oh no, it doesn't. You don't take any interest in girls! Oh no!"

  "No, I do not!"was the emphatic and heartless retort. ⓒ"I never saw one in my life I'd care whether she lived or died!"

  "Honest?" asked Johnnie. "Honest, is that so?"

  "Yes, 'honest'!" William repled, sharply. "They could all die, I wouldn't notice!"

  Johnnie profoundedly impressed. "Why, I didn't know you felt that way about them, Silly Bill."

  "Well, I do feel that way about them!" said William, outraged by the repetition of the offensive nickname.

문제 1. 밑줄 친 ①,②를 우리말로 번역하라.

문제 2. ⓐ~ⓓ의 뜻은 다음의 어느 것인가? ㉠~㉢에서 옳은 것을 하나씩 고르라.

       ⓐ 친구의 태도에 다소 (㉠ 실망해서 ㉡ 질려서 ㉢ 화가 나서)

       ⓑ ㉠ 빈정대는 태도로 ㉡ 무간한 사이의 어조로 ㉢ 무시하는 듯한 태도로

       ⓒ ㉠ 아니, 그런 일이 있겠는가. ㉡ 그렇고 말고, 그건 안 될 말이지. ㉢ 그렇겠지, 네게는 아무렇지도 않을 테지

       ⓓ ㉠ 나는 살고 있는지, 죽었는지 마음에 걸릴 만한 사람은 만난 일이 없어.

           ㉡ 나는 지금까지 살고 있건 죽었건, 좋아하는 사람을 만난 일이 없다.

           ㉢ 나는 만난 일이 없으니까, 그 사람이 살아 있는지 죽었는지 모르겠다.

2. When someone shouts at you, "Look (   ㉠   )!" and you jump just in time to avoid (   ㉡   ) hit by an automobile, you owe your escape (   ㉢   ) injury to the fundamental cooperative act by which most of the higher animals survive, namely, communication by (   ㉣   ) of noises. You did not see the car coming; nevertheless, someone did, and he made certain noises to communicate his alarm to you. In (   ㉤   ) words, although your nervous system did not record the danger, you were unharmed because another nervous system did. You had the ①advantage of someone else's nervous system in addition to your own.

  Indeed, most of the time when we are listening to the noises peope make, ②we are drawing upon the experiences of others in order to make up for what ourselves have missed. Obviously the more an individual can make use of the nervous system of others to supplement his own, the easire it is for him to survive. And, of course, the more individuals there are in a group cooperating by making helpful noises at each other, the better it is for all. Birds and animals congregate with their own kind and make noises when they find food or become alarmed. In fact, gregariousness as an aid t osurvival and self-defense is forced upon animals as well as upon men by the necessity of uniting nervous system even more than by the necessity of uniting physical strength. Societies, both animal and human, might almost be regarded as huge cooperative nervous system.

                                                                       - hayakawa

문제 1. ㉠~㉤의 빈자리에 적당한 낱말을 넣어라.

문제 2. 밑줄 친 ①의 advantage는 이 경우에 다음의 ⓐ~ⓓ중 어떤 뜻으로 쓰였는가?

       ⓐ superiority   ⓑ benefit    ⓒ good use    ⓓ more favorable position

문제 3. 밑줄 친 ②를 우리 말로 번역하여라.

문제 4. 밑줄 친 ③의 뜻을 paraphrase한다면 ⓐ~ⓔ의 (      )에 들어갈 말들은?

           Animals as well as men are forced to live in large groups, which helps them to (   ⓐ   ) and (   ⓑ   ) themselves, not (   ⓒ   )

           (   ⓓ   ) because it is necessary to unite physical strength (   ⓔ   ) because i is necessary to nite nervous system.