9급 지방직 영어 2009년 기출문제

The latest move to stave off a recession saw another reduction in the interest rates last night－the second cut in only eight days. The Central Bank also indicated that further cuts could be enforced.

The Acme Construction Company is having problems. They have been working on a new office building for the last seven months, and everything seems to be going wrong. Earlier, they stopped work on a smaller structure that they had been building so they could take on this job. Now both projects are in jeopardy.

Officials at the National Institute of Health say that Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS) is spreading and all children under five are at stake.

Richard Wagner had the emotional stability of a ( ) child.

Our failure to provide full security to the American people has shaken the nation devastated by this terrible carnage and has stunned the whole world. It is high time that we               our foreign policy in the Middle East.

A Brazilian woman who has lived in the United States for many years was explaining why it was difficult for her parents and sister to come to visit her in the United States.

(가) "What happens if Congress disagrees with the President?" her American friend asked. "Oh", she replied, "the President can just tell the Congress to take a vacation, and then he can go on and pass new laws or do whatever he wants."

(나) When they return, they can get their money back, but no interest is paid on it. This was the decision of the Minister of Finance and the President, she said, and the Congress was not even consulted.

(다) Because the government wishes to discourage people from traveling abroad and spending their money in other countries, the Minister of Finance decided to require Brazilian tourists to deposit $1,200 in a special account before leaving the country.

Mary is six years old. She loves her grandmother a lot. Whenever she comes to visit her, she meets her at the port. One day she was taken to the port to see her grandmother off. When she got on the ship, Mary began to cry. She said to her mother, "Why does Grandmother live in the ocean and not on the ground like everybody else?"

Emily is a writer and is always writing things down. Even when she can't find paper, she scrambles to find envelopes, napkins, anything she can use to write down her thoughts. She does this because she is both realistic and disciplined enough to know humans run across too many ideas to remember all of them or even most of them. Good ideas come floating into our heads and will easily float out. Writers acknowledge they carry around a notebook so that the best of those ideas can make it to paper. You don't have to be a writer, however, to have good ideas floating through you. Keep a notebook and pen          and you will be able to hold onto those floating thoughts.

Rosa Lopez was a maid working quietly and anonymously until she became a key witness in the O. J. Simpson trial. Suddenly, she was the focus of intense scrutiny. Lopez          cameras and reporters everywhere she went. Her every move was analyzed. She eventually returned to her native country to escape the pressure, only to find that the media followed her there.

At one moment the word 'diplomacy' is employed as a synonym for 'foreign policy', as when we say 'British diplomacy in the Near East has been lacking in vigour'. At another moment it signifies 'negotiation', as when we say 'the problem is one which might well be solved by diplomacy'. More specifically, the word denotes the processes and machinery by which such negotiation is carried out. A fourth meaning is that of a branch of the Foreign Service, as when one says 'my nephew is working for diplomacy'.

A helicopter piloted by a woman lifted a ( ) from a rooftop of La Sante Prison in Paris on Monday and flew him out. The escaped one was identified as Michel Vaujour, 34, who was found guilty of armed robbery last year. He was serving an 18-year sentence and this was his fourth escape from prison. According to police, the helicopter flew into the prison at about 10:45 A.M. and hovered over a prison building. Two people were aboard the aircraft. They dropped a line to Vaujour and then flew away.

In one of the most widespread man-made disasters the region has known, smoke from the fires has blanketed a broad swath of Southeast Asia this month.

Flights have been canceled around the region, the busy shipping lanes of the Strait of Malacca have been disrupted by low visibility, and millions of people are coughing and wheezing. It is impossible to say how many people have been made sick by the smoke.

The fires are mostly intentionally set. Hundreds of Indonesian and Malaysian companies - mostly large agricultural concerns, and some with high-placed Government connections - are using fire as a cheap and illegal means of land-clearing.

A survey reveals that most adults consider themselves "well informed about the affairs of the nation and the world." Yet a regularly taken Roper poll that asks, "From where do you obtain most of your information about the world?" has found the percentage of people who reply, "Television" has been increasing steadily over the past decade. The latest questionnaire found that well over 60 percent of the respondents chose television over other media as their major source of information. These two facts are difficult to ________ since even a casual study of television news reveals it is only a headline service and not a source of information enabling one to shape a world view.

Many women have prolonged difficulties achieving good sleep. As mothers, students, caretakers, and professionals, many of us lead hectic lives, filled with both obvious and subtle stressors that are on our minds as we attempt to settle into sleep. The sheer numbers of over-the-counter and prescription sleep aids give you an idea of how widespread insomnia is today. But the problem with these sleep aids is that even though they induce drowsiness, they do not promote real sleep － deep, lasting, and refreshing. And some of these agents, if taken over the course of months may lead to dependency or stop working altogether. Don't be surprised if your physician is not inclined to prescribe them.

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A : I got my paycheck today, and I didn't get the raise I expected to get.

B : There is probably a good reason.

C : You should          right away and talk to the boss about it.

A : I don't know. He might still be mad about the finance report last week.