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최빈출 최신 문제 모음 [TCSE 9/18 (TCSE 2813~2852)]

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TCSE 2813
It is misleading to (i)__________ the scientific literature by focusing on (ii)__________ research as the newspaper’s science reporters have sometimes done. Forced retractions of scientific publications are, in fact, relatively rare.
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aggrandizefraudulent
impugnground-breaking
paraphrasecollaborative
정답:impugn, fraudulent
TCSE 2814
Groundwater responds slowly to droughts and floods and, as a result, is much more __________ to such climate variability than are water supplies drawn from rivers or ponds.
  • conducive
  • vital
  • resilient
  • indebted
  • susceptible
정답:resilient
TCSE 2815
Having characterized her opponents as extreme and one-sided, the pundit conspicuously failed to (i)__________ the middle ground to which she laid claim; how speedily the pretense of moderation is (ii)__________!
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occupyprovoked
demarcateabused
surveyshed
정답:occupy, shed
TCSE 2816
Any dissent within the company is necessarily __________ because of the overwhelming preponderance of the company president’s supporters, who quickly quash all opposition to her policies.
  • consequential
  • untrammeled
  • exigent
  • ephemeral
  • constructive
정답:ephemeral
TCSE 2817
Most of human language is (i)__________, with meaning (ii)__________ context and interpretation. But the meaning of mathematical statements (iii)__________ culture and history: if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.
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figurativedependent ontranscends
malleabledeviating fromretraces
redundantvarying despitepermeates
정답:malleable, dependent on, transcends
TCSE 2818
The writer had little interest in realism; many of his stories take place in a world either fancifully sketched out or purposefully __________.
  • mythical
  • plausible
  • mundane
  • enigmatic
  • banal
  • ambiguous
정답:mythical, enigmatic
TCSE 2819
Galileo Galilei’s __________ the technical details of the telescopes he built was predictable: like any self-respecting inventor, he wanted to keep his art a secret.
  • meticulousness regarding
  • pride in
  • confusion regarding
  • proficiency with
  • reticence about
정답:reticence about
TCSE 2820
The __________ markings on some prehistoric bone and antler fragments could be accidents or the result of doodling, but may also represent a form of communication such as tally marks or even early calendars.
  • purposeful
  • enigmatic
  • random
  • inscrutable
  • conspicuous
  • deliberate
정답:enigmatic, inscrutable
TCSE 2821
The philosopher proposed that prehistoric humans were by nature autonomous and combative, establishing community life only when the cost of strife became __________.
  • insupportable
  • incalculable
  • undeniable
  • untenable
  • inexplicable
  • unpredictable
정답:insupportable, untenable
TCSE 2822
Several environmental organizations have found themselves in the __________ position of endorsing a legislature that they have long criticized as being too quick to approve development projects.
  • uncharacteristic
  • unsurprising
  • unenviable
  • untenable
  • predictable
  • novel
정답:uncharacteristic, novel
TCSE 2823
The scientific study of laughter faces a frustrating paradox: ideal experiments take place in rigidly controlled environments with all but the most salient variables eliminated, but such sterile settings are often __________ laughter.
  • inimical to
  • devoid of
  • subverted by
  • adverse to
  • replete with
  • rife with
정답:inimical to, adverse to
TCSE 2824
Much of the recent literature on the emergence of the United States postal system has (i)__________ ways in which the mails divided the democracy, documenting how women and African Americans were particularly marginalized. Henkins writes (ii)__________ much of this recent historiography, highlighting commonalities across lines of region, race, and gender.
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emphasizedagainst the grain of
obscuredin order to endorse
disregardedwith due regard for
정답:emphasized, against the grain of
TCSE 2825
If telecommuting ever did reduce traffic congestion noticeably, the excess capacity on the highways would almost certainly be quickly (i)__________ by changes in current travel patterns. For example, more people might decide to drive alone instead of using public transportation. Historically, transportation and communications have been (ii)__________ to each other-both of them increasing concurrently-rather than (iii)__________ for each other.
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absorbedbarriersbackups
augmentedspursincentives
obscuredfoilssubstitutes
정답:absorbed, spurs, substitutes
TCSE 2826
Poets in the United States usually speak with more (i)__________ for authentic experience than for the imagination. They cultivate strategies to make themselves sound (ii)__________, as if poems were eyewitness accounts and not (iii)__________.
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reverencevisionaryaccurate reportage
disrespectmatter-of-factartistic creations
ineloquenceuninvolvedvivid memories
정답:reverence, matter-of-fact, artistic creations
TCSE 2827
Humans can have (i)__________ tastes: crab brains and squeezable cheese are delicacies to many people, even as others find them repulsive. The preference for sweet and abhorrence of bitter is (ii)__________, however.
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self-indulgentexplicable
refinedstrong
idiosyncraticuniversal
정답:idiosyncratic, universal
TCSE 2828
Much as our taste for sugar and fat served us well in a world of scarce nutrition but has become __________ in a world of plenty, where we satisfy it to the point of obesity, our memories can work against us in our contemporary information age.
  • symptomatic
  • atrophied
  • maladaptive
  • nugatory
  • heritable
정답:maladaptive
TCSE 2829
There is a clear trend away from automobile ownership and solo driving among young people. One view holds that these young people will (i)__________ as they age, but Willson argues that the trend is (ii)__________ one. As a result, car-free lifestyles will become more (iii)__________.
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support mass transita durableonerous
reject the automobile entirelya noticeableexpedient
increase vehicle ownershipan illusorycommon
정답:increase vehicle ownership, a durable, common
TCSE 2830
Political debates supposedly exist to inform viewers, who watch them with open minds to learn about the candidates and decide how to vote. Of course, given the (i)__________ that routinely permeates most debates, it is hard to (ii)__________ that they fulfill their purpose.
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heated discussiondeny
ideological divisionmaintain
notorious disingenuousnesscomplain
정답:notorious disingenuousness, maintain
TCSE 2831
Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)__________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander’s architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)__________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii)__________ photographic artifact.
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impersonalare largely inessentialintriguing
offhandresist interpretationimprecise
evocativenormally interferecontrived
정답:impersonal, normally interfere, contrived
TCSE 2832
One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of __________: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.
  • hubris
  • propriety
  • bias
  • prescience
  • indolence
정답:hubris
TCSE 2833
For millennia, remembering was hard and costly, and people had to choose deliberately what should be remembered, allowing most things to be forgotten. The digital age has brought about an (i)__________ of the balance of remembering and forgetting. Committing information to digital memory has become (ii)__________.
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attenuationthe default
inversiona burden
extensionan excuse
정답:inversion, the default
TCSE 2834
While the subtropical ocean gyres are (i)__________ accumulation zones of floating plastic debris, the possibility of plastic accumulation at polar latitudes has been (ii)__________ because of the (iii)__________ of nearby pollution sources.
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adjacent tooverlookedheterogeneity
recognized asexaggerateddearth
affected bysuggestedemergence
정답:recognized as, overlooked, dearth
TCSE 2835
Computers triumphed at chess not by (i)__________ human thought, but by playing like machines. The analogy with flight is (ii)__________: as long as people tried to fly by imitating birds, they were doomed to failure; once they (iii)__________ the paradigm of the familiar, however, they were soon flying much faster than birds
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disregardingdeceptivediscovered
validatingunnecessaryescaped
apinginstructiveunderstood
정답:aping, instructive, escaped
TCSE 2836
The simplicity of Ann Hamilton’ s sculpture, a single drop of water snaking its way down a vast white wall, __________ the elaborate technical apparatus hidden beneath its surface.
  • minimized
  • undermined
  • belied
  • contradicted
  • conjured
  • evoked
정답:belied, contradicted
TCSE 2837
By avoiding hyperbole in her definitive account of one of the most influential but controversial banks of the modern era, Hurst shows herself to be a __________ author.
  • judicious
  • brilliant
  • compelling
  • sensible
  • sympathetic
  • solicitous
정답:judicious, sensible
TCSE 2838
The Holy People in Navajo sacred narratives do not act as moral __________: when they teach, it is as often by what they do wrong as by what they do right.
  • agents
  • arbiters
  • defenders
  • paragons
  • ethicists
  • exemplars
정답:paragons, exemplars
TCSE 2839
Monumental changes taking place in the structures of world business match some equally __________ changes taking place in the relations of international companies to the governments with which they deal.
  • ill-advised
  • magnanimous
  • portentous
  • discreet
  • overblown
정답:portentous
TCSE 2840
Viewing people as “social atoms” that obey rather simple rules (which are not unlike the laws of physics), one may discover certain (i)__________. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii)__________ movements, one person begins to follow another-in an effort to avoid collisions-and streams of movement emerge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii)__________.
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apparent contradictionsinflexibleself-defeating
unproductive tendenciesstraightforwardself-aggrandizing
lawlike regularitieschaoticself-perpetuating
정답:lawlike regularities, chaotic, self-perpetuating
TCSE 2841
Lebrecht recounts many entertaining scandals, (i)__________ himself on some points in deference to the laws of libel. His anecdotes seem (ii)__________, but when carefully scrutinized, their accuracy is less than impressive. What rings false is his picture of the impresarios as unerring Machiavellian schemers-villains who never (iii)__________ in their efforts to pile up a fortune and ruin the world of music, However, my experience in the concert and recording world suggests that there is more bumbling than sinister plotting.
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restrainingbanalsympathize
indulgingplausibleblunder
deludingcapriciousdissemble
정답:restraining, plausible, blunder
TCSE 2842
Theses defended by contemporary philosophers under the banner of metaphysics typically __________ the claims of science, that is, they cannot be borne out by experiment as the claims of science are expected to be.
  • derive from
  • originate in
  • contravene
  • challenge
  • transcend
  • go beyond
정답:transcend, go beyond
TCSE 2843
In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, not only was great wealth (i)__________, but even the idea that the accumulation of great riches was the point of a working life seemed (ii)__________
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a responsibilityforeign
an aberrationbanal
a portentpragmatic
정답:an aberration, foreign
TCSE 2844
Unlike those glossy Architectural Digest photographs that are deliberately (i)__________ lest they distract from a focus on the building itself, Friedlander’ s architectural photography is the product of his insistence that he is an individual looking at buildings and scenes as they actually exist. Friedlander reminds us that everyday objects (ii)__________ or, more exactly, that the unimpeded visual scene of a building without cars or power lines or street signs is a highly (iii)__________ photographic artifact.
Blank (i)Blank (ii)Blank (iii)
impersonalare largely inessentialintriguing
offhandresist interpretationimprecise
evocativenormally interferecontrive
정답:impersonal, normally interfere, contrive
TCSE 2845
Slight but __________ variations in the timing of the star’ s light pulses led astronomers to deduce that it was being pulled backward and forward by three planets orbiting around it.
  • subtle
  • regular
  • explicable
  • undetachable
  • inconsequential
정답:regular
TCSE 2846
Although ants and humans have __________ lifestyles, they fight their foes for many of the same economic reasons, including access to dwelling spaces, to territory, and to food.
  • complex
  • divergent
  • atypical
  • conflicting
  • disparate
  • complicated
정답:divergent, disparate
TCSE 2847
The effect of the film’s expansive, darkly mournful opening sequence was magnified by a score that was similarly __________ and unrelenting.
  • iridescent
  • volatile
  • equivocal
  • plangent
  • blithe
정답:plangent
TCSE 2848
As a consequence of his need for (i)__________ and his (ii)__________ self-advertisement, Joseph Duveen’ s career is better known than those of most of his fellow dealers of museum-quality material. The Wildensteins, for instance, were far more successful financially, but they were (iii)__________ beyond measure.
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stabilitymaladroitsecretive
autonomyunavailingdesperate
publicityindefatigableknowledgeable
정답:publicity, indefatigable, secretive
TCSE 2849
The book is a determinedly apolitical writer’s attempt to deal with an explosive subject, and some readers will think it too __________: they will miss the impassioned engagement found in the works of her peers.
  • ambitious
  • candid
  • extreme
  • visceral
  • measured
정답:measured
TCSE 2850
For any art lover who has sat through a high-stakes auction, where artworks often are applauded for their (i)__________, there is something undeniably (ii)__________ about encouraging more people to see (iii)__________ rather than dollar signs, when they look at paintings on museum walls.
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flouting of traditionrefreshingcreativity
facile aestheticismpretentiousambition
record-breaking pricesgratuitousdilettantism
정답:record-breaking prices, refreshing, creativity
TCSE 2851
Although anecdotes about her abound, it is difficult to verify facts about al-Khansa’ —like many early poetic figures, she may well be a composite figure, her corpus __________ the works of many women poets.
  • a harbinger of
  • an amalgamation of
  • a response to
  • a precursor of
  • an imitation of
  • a fusion of
정답:an amalgamation of, a fusion of
TCSE 2852
Native American art is not a (i)__________ enterprise: it reflects differences among artists’ personal, community, and tribal experience. As Native American artists continue to create the art that is valid for them, however, the (ii)__________ in Native American art between traditional and modern styles (primarily promulgated by non-Native American critics) has become outmoded. There is heightened recognition that placing Native American art in these two opposing categories has had a (iii)__________ effect on both artists and viewers.
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fatalisticsupposed distinctiontransient
monolithicindispensable connectiondeleterious
celebratedconsiderable overlappropitious
정답:monolithic, supposed distinction, deleterious