[편입영어] SAT Prep Sentence Completion

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Gre text completion, sentence completion 은 편입영어에서는 

논리완성 또는 문장완성으로 불리웁니다.

정확한 단서를 바탕으로 답을 논리적으로 추론하는 능력을 키우는 것이 핵심입니다.

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Part I

1. Social scientists have established fairly clear-cut ------ that describe the appropriate behavior of children and adults, but there seems to be ------ about what constitutes appropriate behavior for adolescents.

   (A) functions..rigidity

   (B) estimates..indirectness

   (C) norms..confusion 

   (D) regulations..certainty

   (E) studies..misapprehension

2. As long as nations cannot themselves accumulate enough physical power to dominate all others, they must depend on ------.

   (A) allies 

   (B) resources

   (C) freedom

   (D) education

   (E) self-determination

3. We realized that John was still young and impressionable, but were nevertheless surprised at his ------.

   (A) naivete 

   (B) obstinateness

   (C) decisiveness

   (D) ingeniousness

   (E) resolve

4. Although Mount Saint Helens has been more ------ during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the coterminous United States, its long dormancy before its recent eruption ------ its violent nature.

   (A) awe-inspiring..restrained

   (B) gaseous..confirmed

   (C) explosive..belied 

   (D) familiar..moderated

   (E) volatile..suggested

5. Changes of fashion and public taste are often ------ and resistant to analysis, and yet they are among the most ------ gauges of the state of the public's collective consciousness.

   (A) transparent..useful

   (B) ephemeral..sensitive 

   (C) faddish..underutilized

   (D) arbitrary..problematic

   (E) permanent..reliable

6. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ------ the ------ to abuse them.

   (A) negates..temptation

   (B) controls..resolution

   (C) engenders..propensity 

   (D) tempers..proclivity

   (E) obviates..inclination

7. The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an ------ process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.

   (A) unreliable

   (B) arcane 

   (C) arrogant

   (D) elementary

   (E) intuitive

Part II

1.   Many young children and adults believe supplements will make them faster and stronger. In reality, people who take steroids are jeopardizing their health. Steroid use _________ people at greater risk for heart attacks and strokes, increases aggressiveness, and stunts growth for both genders. It can also lead to a number of sexual side effects in males, including breast development and premature balding, and many of these side effects are _________.

(A) puts ― irreversible 

(B) takes ― significant

(C) makes ― unaccountable

(D) leaves ― untraceable

2.   In my family there was a _________ agreement on the subject of curfews; my parents agreed that I should be home by midnight, and I did not.

(A) unilateral 

(B) multiple

(C) uniform

(D) unanimous

3.   Brought back to the store, the cotton-pickers would step out of the backs of trucks and fold down to the ground. No matter how much they had picked, it wasn’t enough. Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to the store owner, _______ the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown.

(A) not to say

(B) in addition

(C) not to mention 

(D) moreover

4.   The idea of evolution in nature proposed by Charles Darwin had significant effects well beyond the areas of biology. The basic premise of Darwin's idea that organisms must adapt or face extinction is sometimes misconstrued and applied by ________ to other areas in which there is scant evidence for its existence. A notable example of this is Social Darwinism, a dominant social philosophy of the 19th century, in which it is argued that society is like nature, and thus people, like animals, are competing for survival, with those who are genetically superior at surviving and reproducing.

(A) analogy 

(B) metaphor

(C) asymmetry

(D) anachronism

5.   In late-modern society, the psychologically complex and autonomous individual is _______. Individual decisions and reflection give way in more and more spheres of life to corporatist policy making and the repetitive formulae of mass culture.

A. a luminary

B. an exemplar

C. a prototype

D. an anachronism 

6.   In most cases, there is no link whatsoever between the signal and the message in human language. The symbols used are _______. There is no intrinsic connection, for example, between the word elephant and the animal it symbolizes. Nor is the phrase “these bananas are bad” intrinsically connected with food.

(A) unique

(B) logical

(C) arbitrary 

(D) idiosyncratic

7.   While journalists profess their faith in this objective world, they have little confidence in their ability to recognize it. The norms of “objective” reporting thus involves presenting “both sides” of an issue regardless of their veracity. We thus have the poignant irony that a journalist who systematically attempts to verify facts ― to say which set of acts is more accurate ― runs the risk of being accused of abandoning his or her objectivity by favoring one side over another. Interestingly, this objective reporting tends to promote a specific ideology. Lurking within it is a specific philosophical assumption about where truth lies. Since the objective reporting tends to assume that both sides will always be speaking partial truth, it is easy to infer that ① _______.

(A) the whole truth must be within us

(B) the whole truth must be within our reach

(C) the whole truth must lie somewhere out there

(D) the whole truth must lie somewhere in the middle