9급 지방직 영어 2014년 기출문제

Electric cars also are a key part of China's efforts to curb its unquenchable appetite for imported oil and gas, which communist leaders see as a strategic weakness.

John had just started working for the company, and he was not dry behind the ears yet. We should have given him a break.

If you are someone who is __________, you tend to keep your feelings hidden and do not like to show other people what you really think.

How did you __________ selling cosmetics online?

Goods for which the marginal costs are close to zero are inherently public goods and should be made publicly available. Bridges and roads are good examples. Once society has incurred the capital costs of constructing a bridge or road, maximum benefit from the initial investment is gained only if use is not restricted by charging. 따라서 사람들은 무료로 그러한 시설들을 이용할 수 있어야 한다.

You'll never get a fair distribution of goods, or a satisfactory organization of human life, until you abolish private property altogether. So long as it exists, the vast majority of the human race, or the morally superior part of it, will inevitably go on laboring under the burden of poverty, hardship, and worry.

(A) Private property assumes that there's nothing wrong with your being rich, when your neighbors all around you are poor. (B) When everyone's entitled to get as much for himself as he can, all available property is bound to fall into the hands of a small minority. (C) This means that everyone else is poor. (D) And wealth will tend to vary in inverse proportion to merit, since the rich will be totally useless greedy characters, while the poor will be simple, honest people whose daily work is profitable to the community.

Experienced travel agents of yesterday are being rapidly replaced by new ones who have less firsthand knowledge of destinations. What this new breed faces are clients who do not know much about geography but have leisure time and money at their disposal. The solution is to equip these less knowledgeable travel agents with computer and video technology to help them match clients with right destinations.

(A) The client then views video programs on those destinations that seem most appealing, and finalizes his or her vacation plan. This way, travel agencies use modern technology to compensate for the inexperience of many agents on their payroll.

(B) Responses collected are fed into a computer program to produce a list of suggested destinations and itinerary options matched to the client's preferences.

(C) The key is to ask a client about his or her preferred vacation in mind. Included might be specific requests the representatives of which are "I don't like to pack and unpack repeatedly," or "I don't like to quickly move around and see many things."

His hiring concluded an exhaustive process that collected input from all segments of the university.

The selection as Heoha University's tenth president of Carlos Jimenez, the current chancellor at the University of Licafornia since 2008, was announced at the board of trustees meeting on March 15. (A) He will begin his term on July 1. (B) Faculty, students, and alumni were invited to nominate candidates. An advisory subcommittee also gathered input through 40 public forums held around the country. (C) The nominations were first narrowed to 100 names, then to 20 who received interviews, and then to five finalists. Board member Jeffrey Pinorius, who headed the search committee, said that Jimenez emerged as the clear choice. (D) "The presidential search committee was responsible for finding a leader with a clear vision and proven leadership skills required for running a highly complex organization," he added.

(A) Adventure travel is a hot trend in today's tourism industry. (B) Ordinary people are no longer content to spend two weeks away from their office lying on a sunny beach in Hawaii. (C) More and more often, they are choosing to spend their vacations rafting down wild rivers, hiking through steamy rain forests, climbing high mountains, or traversing slippery glaciers. (D) People of all ages are choosing educational study tours for their vacations.

The benefits of exercise extend far beyond physical health improvement. Many people work out as much for mental and spiritual well-being as for staying fit. Can being physically active make you happy? Can it help you deal with life stress? Can it lead to a more spiritual and religious life? For many, the answer is yes. Exercise, such as walking, increases blood flow to the brain. A study of people over 60 found that walking 45 minutes a day at 6 km/h enhanced the participants' thinking skills. They started at 15 minutes of walking and gradually increased exercise time and speed. The result was that the participants were found mentally sharper with this walking program.

폭풍우 전에는 대체로 고요한 시기가 먼저 온다.

A quiet spell usually _____________________ a storm.

A tenth of the automobiles in this district alone _______ stolen last year.

A: How did you find your day at school today, Ben?

B: I can't complain. Actually, I gave a presentation on drug abuse in my psychology class, and the professor __________________________.

A: What exact words did he use?

B: He said my presentation was head and shoulders above the others.

A: Way to go!

A: Excuse me. I'm looking for Nambu Bus Terminal.

B: Ah, it's right over there.

A: Where? _____________________________

B: Okay. Just walk down the street, and then turn right at the first intersection. The terminal's on your left. You can't miss it.

Last month felt like the longest in my life with all the calamities that took us by surprise. There was only one light at the end of the tunnel, and that light was you. I cannot begin to tell you how much your thoughtfulness has meant to me. I'm sure I was too tired to be thinking clearly, but each time you appeared to whisk my children off for an hour so that I could rest, or to bring a dinner with a pitcher of iced tea, all I knew was that something incredibly wonderful had just happened. Now that we are back to normal, I know that something incredibly wonderful was you. There are no adequate words to express thanks with, but gratefulness will always be in my heart.

Unlike in the House of Representatives, representation in the Senate is equal for every state: each state has two senators. Senators serve six-year terms. The purpose of the guaranteed term is to insulate senators from public opinion and allow them to act independently. In regard to the selection, public servants in the Senate used to be _______________ by the legislatures of the states they represented. It was the Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, that gave Americans the power to elect their own senators directly.

There are ninety-two naturally occurring elements on Earth, plus a further twenty or so that have been created in labs. Not a few of our earthly chemicals are surprisingly little known. Astatine, for instance, is practically unstudied. It has a name and a place on the periodic table, next to Marie Curie's polonium, but almost nothing else. The problem is __________. There just is not much astatine out there. The most elusive element of all, however, appears to be francium, which is so scarce that it is thought that our entire planet may contain, at any given moment, fewer than twenty francium atoms. Altogether only about thirty of the naturally occurring elements are widespread on Earth.

The best way to develop ideas is through (A) with your fellow managers. This brings us back to the importance of teamwork and interpersonal skills. One of the biggest problems today is that most managers have too much information. The key to success is not information. It's (B) . And those I look for to fill top management spots are eager beavers, the guys who try to do more than they're expected to.

Why do we reach for a candy bar at the end of a heavy meal? We certainly are not hungry. Why do we like salt and other seasoning in our food? Soldiers who have been temporarily deprived of salt report that at its maximum intensity the craving for salt is more insistent than the desire for food itself. Cows and other livestock which are not receiving enough lime eat the bones of other animals to relieve the craving. These conditions are not thoroughly understood at present but it seems certain that somewhere in the body there are receptors which respond to the chemical conditions in the blood brought about by the absence of certain substances necessary for the body. When these receptors perceive such conditions, we have _______________________________