다음 글의 내용과 가장 거리가 먼 것은?Maps of the world… | [국회직 9급 영어] 18년 1회차 기출문제 상세 페이지
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다음 글의 내용과 가장 거리가 먼 것은?Maps of the world in older times used to fill in the blanks of exploration with an array of fantastic creatures, dragons, sea monsters, fierce winged beasts. It appears that the human mind cannot bear very much blankness―where we do not know, we invent, and what we invent reflects our fear of what we do not know. Fairies are born of that fear. The blank spaces on the village map, too, need to be filled; faced with woods and mountains, seas and streams that could never be fully charted, human beings saw blanks, blanks they hastened to fill with a variety of beings all given different names, yet all recognizable as fairies. Our fairies have become utterly benign only nowadays, when electric light and motorways and mobile phones have banished the terror of the lonely countryside. Used as we are to benign fairies, it is very hard for us to understand the fairies of the past.
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Human beings do not like to see things void and unfilled.
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Fairies reflect the human fear over the indecipherable things in nature.
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There is not much historical change in our perception of the fairies.
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The margins of maps are often decorated with fantastic creatures.
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The idea of benevolent fairies is very modern.
해설
지문과 가장 거리가 먼 것은 “There is not much historical change in our perception of the fairies.”(요정에 대한 인식에 역사적 변화가 별로 없다)이다.
지문은 요정이 “utterly benign only nowadays”(오늘날에야 완전히 온순해졌다)이고, 그래서 “it is very hard for us to understand the fairies of the past”(과거의 요정을 이해하기 어렵다)라고 한다. 즉 인식이 크게 달라졌다는 내용이다.
- “Human beings do not like to see things void and unfilled.”: “the human mind cannot bear very much blankness”(인간의 마음은 공백을 견디지 못한다)와 일치한다.
- “Fairies reflect the human fear over the indecipherable things in nature.”: “Fairies are born of that fear”(요정은 그 두려움에서 태어났다)와 일치한다.
- “The margins of maps are often decorated with fantastic creatures.”: 옛 지도가 빈 곳을 “fantastic creatures”(환상의 생물)로 채웠다는 내용과 일치한다.
- “The idea of benevolent fairies is very modern.”: 요정이 온순해진 것이 “only nowadays”라는 내용과 일치한다.
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