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Essay 4-2 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Do I see Myself As Others Do? Other students I interviewed talked about the importance of wearing certain brands of clothing. These clothes display a brand name somewhere, whether it's plastered in three-inch type across the front or appears on a tiny logo on the sleeve. A middle-school student said, "Sometimes I just want to wear a pair of sweatpants and a ..

Essay 4-1 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Do I see Myself As Others Do? Two weeks ago I was watching a local news story about the lottery. The film footage showed ⓐa young woman standing behind the store counter selling lottery tickets. She had short blond hair, big sparkling eyes, and a huge smile. I recognized her as the woman who worked in the corner drugstore down the street. The next day I walk..

Essay 3-2 The origin of Quarantine Within a century, cities extended the isolation period from 30 to 40 days, and the term changed from trentino to quarantino—the root of the English word quarantine that we use today. No one knows for certain why the isolation period was extended to 40 days, but scholars have a few hunches. There’s a lot of cultural meaning packed into the number 40—plenty of Bi..

Essay 3-1 The origin of Quarantine Quarantine has been on all of our minds lately. But the word goes all the way back to the time of the Black Death. In 1793, yellow fever hit Philadelphia, and sailors were quarantined in a hospital outside the city. When typhus landed in New York City in 1892, at least 70 people were quarantined on a nearby island. When an outbreak of SARS moved through Canada ..

[15-16] 다음 글을 읽고, 물음에 답하시오. If you were afraid of standing on balconies, you would start on some lower floors and slowly work your way up to higher ones. It would be easy to face a fear of standing on high balconies in a way that’s totally controlled. Socializing is (a) trickier. People aren’t like inanimate features of a building that you just have to be around to get used to. You have to inter..

14. 글의 흐름으로 보아, 주어진 문장이 들어가기에 가장 적절한 곳은? It has been observed that at each level of transfer, a large proportion, 80–90 percent, of the potential energy is lost as heat. Food chain means the transfer of food energy from the source in plants through a series of organisms with the repeated process of eating and being eaten. ( ① ) In a grassland, grass is eaten by rabbits while rabbits in turn are ..

13. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은? People spend much of their time interacting with media, but that does not mean that people have the critical skills to analyze and understand it. (A) Research from New York University found that people over 65 shared seven times as much misinformation as their younger counterparts. All of this raises a question: What’s the solution to the misinformation proble..

12. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은? Starting from birth, babies are immediately attracted to faces. Scientists were able to show this by having babies look at two simple images, one that looks more like a face than the other. (A) These changes help the organisms to survive, making them alert to enemies. By being able to recognize faces from afar or in the dark, humans were able to know someone w..

11. 다음 글에서 전체 흐름과 관계 없는 문장은? Health and the spread of disease are very closely linked to how we live and how our cities operate. The good news is that cities are incredibly resilient. Many cities have experienced epidemics in the past and have not only survived, but advanced. ① The nineteenth and early­twentieth centuries saw destructive outbreaks of cholera, typhoid, and influenza in European c..

Essay 2-2 Mongoose on the Loose In Puerto Rico there are from 800,000 to one million of them. That is about one mongoose for every four humans. In St. Croix, there are 100,000 mongooses, about twice as many as the human population. “It’s impossible to eliminate the mongooses population, short of nuclear war.” says Horst. “You can’t poison them, because cats, dogs, and chickens get poisoned, too...