GRE Text Completion / Sentence Completion [편입영어-논리완성]

7. The "impostor syndrome" often afflicts those who fear that true self-disclosure will lower them in others' esteem: rightly handled, however, ------- may actually ------- one's standing.

(A) willfulness. .consolidate

(B) imposture. .undermine

(C) affectation. .jeopardize

(D) candor. .enhance

(E) mimicry. .efface

-> If you see "however and actually" , you can guess that the sentence prior to colon(:) is myth and the second sentence is true. So true self-disclosure may in fact heighten them in others' esteem. From this logic, I think (d) is proper.

8. While not ------- with the colorfully obvious forms of life that are found in a tropical rain forest, the desert is ------- to a surprisingly large number of species.

(A) brimming. .foreign

(B) endowed. .detrimental

(C) imbued. .hostile

(D) teeming. .host

(E) confronted. .home

-> If you see "While not", you can guess that the first sentence's contents is similar to those of the second sentence. But the first sentence has to have stronger meaning than the second sentence. So I think (d) is proper.

10. Prior to the work of Heckel, illustrations of fish were often beautiful but rarely -------; this fact, combined with the ------- nature of most nineteenth-century taxonomic descriptions, often kept scientists from recognizing differences between species.

(A) impressive. .inaccurate

(B) realistic. .detailed

(C) traditional. .progressive

(D) precise. .inexact

(E) distinctive. .sophisticated

-> this fact means "beautiful but rarely ______" .

-> Because of this fact, scientists could not recognize differences between species. So illustrations of fish may be "incorrect". So I think (d) is proper. "rarely precise" is "incorrect".

11. While some argue that imposing tolls on highway users circumvents the need to raise public taxes for road maintenance, the phenomenal expense of maintaining a vast network of roads ------- reliance on these general taxes.

(A) avoids

(B) diminishes

(C) necessitates

(D) discourages

(E) ameliorates

-> If you see "some argue", you can guess the second sentence is the argument of others who are in contrast to some arguing the first sentence. Some argue against rasing public taxes, instead insisting imposing tolls. Therefore, others support rasing public taxes. I think (c) is proper.

12. Whereas the Elizabethans struggled with the transition from medieval ------- experience to modern individualism, we confront an electronic technology that seem likely to reverse the trend, rendering individualism obsolete and interdependence mandatory.

(A) literary

(B) intuitive

(C) corporate

(D) heroic

(E) spiritual

-> Check out "shift, transition, transform from A to B". Ok..? If you see these expressions, the relation between A and B is exact opposite. I think the opposite word of individualism is (c).