[편입영어] GRE Text Completion / Sentence Completion

1. The academic education offered to university students is essential and must not be -------, but that does not mean university should ------- the extracurricular, yet still important, aspects of university life.

(A) impeded. .promote

(B) debated. .victimize

(C) protected. .broaden

(D) maximized. .continue

(E) compromised. .neglect

=> To answer the first blank, you must detect the words, "essential & and".  If the academic education is essential, it must not be impede(A) or compromised(E). 

=> To answer the second blank, you must detect the words, "yet still important". If extracurricular aspects are important, they should not be neglect. Check out "that does not mean".

# Voca

-- compromise : expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute

ex> “The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy”

2. The acts of vandalism that these pranks had actually ------- were insignificant compared with those they had ------- but had not attempted.

(A) hidden. .renounced

(B) advocated. .meditated

(C) inflicted. .dismissed

(D) committed. .effected

(E) perpetrated. .contemplated

=> You must check the words, "compared with", which means the acts of vandalism and those are opposite. So those was not attempted by pranks, the acts of vandalism might be attempted. Therefore, I think "committed(d)" and "perpertrated"(e) is proper. To solve the second blank, you should check "but had not attempted". From this expression, you can draw the word meaning "thought". So I think "contemplated(e)" is proper.

# Voca

-- vandalism : willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others

ex>  Instead of doing its job, he concluded, Congress under the leadership of his party today “is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily.”

3. Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by conscious objectivity, science often operates through error, happy accidents, ------- and persistence in spite of mistakes.

(A) facts

(B) controls

(C) hunches

(D) deductions

(E) calculations

=> This is very easy. "Contrary to" means literally "opposite". The clue word of blank is "conscious objectivity". So the word opposite to conscious objectivity is "hunches".

# Voca

-- hunch : an impression that something might be the case

ex> Working off witness testimony and hunches, investigators whittled down the potential pool of suspects over the years.

4. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of ------- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists created ------- image of a land of infinite promise.

(A) lurid. .a mundane

(B) incredible. .an underplayed

(C) dispiriting. .an identical

(D) intriguing. .a luxuriant

(E) unremitting. .a compelling

=> Leave the message for explaination.

5. While scientists dismiss as fanciful the idea of sudden changes in a genetic code (spontaneous mutation), it is possible that nature, like some master musician, ------- on occasion, departing from the expected or predictable.

(A) repeats

(B) improvises

(C) ornaments

(D) corrects

(E) harmonizes'

=> "dismiss the idea as fanciful" means this idea is not feasible. In this idea, the key word is "spontaneous" which means "impromptu". In short, scientists think the idea of "spontaneous mutation" is not feasible. But because there is the word "while", other scientists think the idea of "spontaneous mutation" is feasible. So I think (b) is proper.

6. While many Russian composers of the nineteenth century contributed to an emerging national style, other composers did not ------- idiomatic Russian musical elements, ------- instead the traditional musical vocabulary of Western European Romanticism.

(A) utilize. .rejecting

(B) incorporate. .preferring

(C) exclude. .avoiding

(D) repudiate. .expanding

(E) esteem. .disdaining

=> This is very hard to my students in South Korea. To answer the first blank, at first you must know relation between emerging and idiomatic. They are opposite. And many Russian composers are at odds with other composers, and so other composers may like idiomatic(old) Russian musical elements. Therefore, I think (c)exclude and (d)repudiate is proper.

=> To answer the second blank, Russian musical elements are different from musical vocabulary of Western European Romanticism. Because other composers like Russian Music, they don't like music of Western European Romanticism.

# Voca

-- refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid 

ex> Mr. Trump needed to repudiate the deal before it became an impossible hindrance for his North Korea negotiators, starting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.