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유형독해 모의고사 1

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Dear Mr.Mitchell,

Your letter describing your unpleasant work environment sounds as if you are experiencing a lot of frustration. I certainly understand your disappointment in not receiving a salary increase for the past three years, especially since your performance evaluations indicate that your work is better than satisfactory. You asked for advice about accepting a better-paying position at a rival company, but expressed reluctance about leaving a place where you have many friends. I can understand your dilemma. However, if the rival company is a local firm, you could consider changing jobs and still stay in touch with your friends. I think you need to take a long-range view and do what will give you the greatest professional advantage. I am always glad to hear from you, so please keep in touch and let me know what you decide.

Thanks and regards, Kimberley Wright

 

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We find that part of the philosophical failure of many universities lies in the ever-increasing trend to train students to become narrow specialists, whereas the real need is for broad generalists. With students worrying more and more about jobs, specialization has increased greatly. But, whereas students increasingly feel that greater specialization will be advantageous to get a job, they are wrong in the long run. Industry and the professions tell us every day that they need students with a broader general background. The highly specialized student will often get his or her first job easily. But over the next five or ten years he or she will be unable to make progress as those with the ability to synthesize and bring wider experience are continually promoted.

 

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Some people think of skeptics as cynical, negative people with closed minds. Nothing could be further from the truth. Skepticism is really nothing more than a fancy name for trying to think clearly and thoroughly before making a decision about believing, buying, or joining something. It's about sorting out reality from lies and misperceptions. What's bad or negative about that? Embracing a skeptical attitude means approaching the world with open eyes, a switched-on brain, a willingness to ask the necessary questions, and the sense of humility that comes with knowing how easy it is for us to be fooled by things we see, hear, and think about. Being a skeptic means being honest and mature enough to seek answers that are based on evidence and logic rather than hopes and dreams. It also means being wise enough to accept that sometimes no satisfying answers are available.

 

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Mary Ann Shadd was the first African-American newspaper editor in North America. She was a tireless advocate for universal education for women, black liberation, and women's rights. Born in Delaware, Shadd moved to Windsor in Canada West (now Ontario) to teach in 1851. She soon published her newspaper Provintial Freeman, which was dedicated to women's political rights and circulated throughout Canada and in major northern cities across the United States. During the American Civil War, she went back to the United States as a recruiter of African-American soldiers for the Union Army. After the war, she moved to Washington, D.C., to teach and to study law, becoming, at age sixty, the second African-American woman in the United States to earn a law degree.

 

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People's lifestyles are based on individual choices, influenced by personal characteristics, circumstances, interests, and social interactions. In some ways, how people spend their leisure time has changed significantly over the years. For example, rapid advances in technology have affected many aspects of people's lives, providing greater access to information and increased choice in leisure and entertainment. However, traditional leisure and entertainment activities, such as watching television, reading, listening to music, attending arts events, gambling and going on holiday remain popular. Many individuals also continue to participate in sports, spend time with family and friends, and help other people in their communities.

 

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When I dropped out of business school to create my first startup, most people I knew thought I was going to regret it all my life. When I quit my struggling tech startup to start making videos online, everyone around me saw it as a waste of my time. When I quit the marketing agency and I pledged to pursue using social media for good, everyone thought I was losing a huge source of income and a guaranteed future. However, it turns out that at first looked like a failure took me a bit closer to my real self. Each one of them woke me up from an illusion. At this point, I can see a clear pattern of rejection every time I try to get closer to my real self, so the feeling of "looking like a failure" has become more of a fuel than a burden.

 

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People who are _______________ are more likely to gain weight and have trouble keeping it off. That's the conclusion by researchers from the US National Institute on Aging. They looked at personality traits of 2,000 people to identify ones that would affect whether a person's weight went up or remained stable with aging. While a certain amount of weight gain is common in aging, the researchers found that acting momentarily or enjoying taking risks was the strongest predictor of becoming overweight or even obese. "We are the first to examine whether personality is associated with fluctuations in weight over time," said a researcher. "Previous research has found that those showing behavior in which they do things suddenly without considering their effects are prone to binge eating and alcohol consumption. These behavioral patterns may contribute to weight gain over time. Interestingly, our pattern of associations fits nicely with the characteristics of these traits."

 

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By the 1960s, people were becoming aware of the effects of pollution on the environment. Rachel Carson's 1962 bestselling book Silent Spring created awareness of the dangerous effects of pesticides on countrysides. ①Later in the decade, a 1969 fire on Cleveland's Cuyahoga River shed light on the problem of chemical waste disposal. ②Until that time, protecting the planet's natural resources was not part of the national political agenda, and the number of activists devoted to large-scale issues such as industrial pollution was minimal. ④Factories pumped pollutants into the air, lakes and rivers with few legal consequences, and big, gas-guzzling cars were considered a sign of success. ⑤Only a small portion of the population was even familiar with the idea of recycling and even fewer practiced it themselves.

 

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Studies of asthma patients reveal that when it comes to taking the oral steroids that are often essential for controlling asthma, many patients do not follow the doctor's directions for taking the medication.

A) Eventually they end up back at the doctor's office or in the emergency room. Simple communication could help resolve this problem of noncompliance and keep patients more stable and able to control the disease.

B) As a result, the patients ignore the doctor's orders. Although they typically fill the prescription, they take their dosage irregularly and often stop the medication completely after a few weeks or months.

C) This is often due to the fact that these patients do not have the opportunity to discuss fully with their physician the reasons why they need medication, what is an appropriate dosage, and when and how to take the medication.

 

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Nearly all scientists are constrained by the conventional thinking of the historical period in which they live. Only occasionally do exceptional thinkers challenge the fundamental assumptions of their times and bring about a paradigm shift. Although most of us will never revolutionize the fields in which we work, more of us could avoid the pitfalls of causation confusion by embracing greater uncertainty about our basic assumptions. The aim of research in any field of human knowledge should not be to abandon the search for causation in favor of practical treatments. The aim should be to deepen our search for causes without falling prey to misunderstanding about the causes of complex events. Success comes partly by remembering that complex problems typically exist within complex chains of causation.