2019년 3월 4일 영어 PTE-A RA 연습 1~10

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Blue

While blue is one of the most popular colors, it is one of the least appetizing. Blue food is rare in nature. Food researchers say that when humans searched for food, they learned to avoid toxic or spoiled objects, which were often blue, black or purple. When food dyed blue is served to study subjects, they lose appetite.

※ appetizing 미국식 [ˈæpɪtaɪzɪŋ] 애피타이징: [형용사] 음식 등이 구미를 동하게 하는

※ appetite 미국·영국 [ˈæpɪtaɪt] 애피타잇-ㅌ: [명사] 식욕

 

Carbon Dioxide Emission

When countries assess their annual carbon dioxide emissions, they count up their cars and power stations, but bush fires are not included – presumably because they are deemed to be events beyond human control. In Australia, Victoria alone sees several hundred thousand hectares burn each year; in both 2004 and more recently, the figure has been over 1 million hectares.

※ dioxide 미국식 [-ˈɑːks-] 다이옥사이드 영국식 [daɪˈɒksaɪd]: [명사] (화학) 이산화물

※ presumably 미국식 [-ˈzuː-] 프리- 즤- 머블리 영국식 [prɪˈzjuːməbli]: [부사] 아마, 짐작건대

※ hectare 미국식 [-ter] 헥터-ㄹ 영국식 [ˈhektɑː(r)]: [명사] ha 헥타르(땅 면적의 단위. 1만평방미터 또는 약 2.5에이커)

 

Tesla

Tesla came over from Graz and went to work for Thomas Edison. Nonetheless Edison offered him a job, promising Tesla fifty thousand dollars if Tesla could redesign Edison’s breakdown- prone DC generator designs. The new generator designs were a vast improvement over Edison’s originals. Upon completing the job Tesla went to Edison to collect the $50,000 promised for the task. 'Tesla,’ Edison replied, ‘you don’t understand our American humor.’ And Tesla was never paid.

※ nonetheless 미국식 [ˌnʌnðəˈles] 난더레스 : [부사] (격식) 그렇기는 하지만, 그렇더라도

 

Productive Capacity

The core of the problem was the immense disparity between the country's productive capacity and the ability of people to consume. Great innovations in productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond the purchasing capacity of U.S. farmers and wage earners.

※ capacity 미국·영국 [kəˈpæsəti] 케- 패시리: [명사] 용량; 수용력

※ earner 미국식 [ˈɜːrn-] 어너-ㄹ 영국식 [ˈɜːnə(r)]: [명사] (직장을 다녀) 돈을 버는 사람, 소득자

 

Father

Ever since I remembered, father woke up at five thirty every morning, made us all breakfast and read newspaper. After that he would go to work. He worked as a writer. It was a long time before I realize he did this for a living.

 

Himalayas

Although it hails from a remote region of the western Himalayas. This plant now looks entirely at home on the banks of English rivers, and colonized river banks and damp woodlands. In the Himalayas the plant is held in check by various pests, but take these away and it grows and reproduces unhindered. Now it is spreading across Europe, New Zealand, Canada and the US.

※ region 미국·영국 [ˈriːdʒən] 리전 : [명사] (보통 정확한 경계나 국경과 상관없는) 지방, 지역

※ unhindered 미국식 [-dərd] 언- 힌덜드- 영국식 [ʌnˈhɪndəd] : [형용사] 아무 방해[제약]를 받지 않는

 

Pluto

Pluto lost its official status as a planet yesterday, when the International Astronomical Union downsized the solar system from nine to eight planets. Although there had been passionate debate at the IAU General Assembly Meeting in Prague about the definition of a planet – and whether Pluto met the specifications – the audience greeted the decision to exclude it with applause.

※ astronomical 미국식 [-ˈnɑːm-] 애스트로노미컬 영국식 [ˌæstrəˈnɒmɪkl] : [형용사] 천문학의

※ Prague 미국·영국 [prɑ́:ɡ] 프라-그 : [명사] 프라하 ((체코의 수도))

※ applause 미국식 [əˈplɔːz] 어플라-즈 : [명사] 박수 (갈채)

 

Fiscal Year

At the beginning of each fiscal year funds are allocated to each State account in accordance with the University’s financial plan. Funds are allocated to each account by object of expenditure. Account managers are responsible for ensuring that adequate funds are available in the appropriate object before initiating transactions to use the funds.

※ ensure 미국식 [ɪnˈʃʊr] 인슈-어ㄹ 영국식 [ɪnˈʃʊə(r);-ˈʃɔː(r)]: [동사] 반드시 …하게[이게] 하다, 보장하다

※ adequate 미국식 [ˈædɪkwət] 애디크웟트: [형용사] ~ (for sth) | ~ (to do sth) (특정한 목적이나 필요에) 충분한[적절한]

 

Lincoln

Lincoln’s apparently radical change of mind about his war power to emancipate slaves was caused by the escalating scope of the war, which convinced him that any measure to weaken the Confederacy and strengthen the Union war effort was justifiable as a military necessity.

※ apparently 미국식 [əˈpærəntli] 어패런ㅅ 리 : [부사] 듣자[보아] 하니

※ weaken 미국·영국 [ˈwiːkən] 위- 큰 : [동사] (능력·세력 등을) 약화시키다; 약화되다

※ confederacy 미국·영국 [kənˈfedərəsi] 컨 패더러시 : [명사] (국가·정당 등의) 연합[연맹]

※ strengthen 미국식 [ˈstreŋθn] 스트렝쓴 : [동사] 강화되다, 강력해지다; 강화하다, 더 튼튼하게 하다

※ justifiable 미국식 [ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪəbl;ˌdʒʌstɪˈfaɪəbl] 저스티 fㅏ이어블 : [형용사] 정당한[타당한] (이유가 있는)

※ necessity 미국·영국 [nəˈsesəti] 네 쎄서리 : [명사] 필요(성)

 

Shakespeare

A young man from a small provincial town -- a man without independent wealth, without powerful family connections and without a university education -- moves to London in the late 1580's and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How was this achievement of magnitude made? How does Shakespeare become Shakespeare?