2019년 3월 23일 영어 PTE-A RA 연습 PTE Study 5~14

출처: https://ptestudy.com/speaking/read-aloud/

 

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In the fast-changing world of modern healthcare, the job of a doctor is more and more like the job of a chief executive. The people who run hospitals and physicians' practices don’t just need to know medicine. They must also be able to balance budgets, motivate a large and diverse staff and make difficult marketing and legal decisions.

※ executive 미국·영국 [ɪɡˈzekjətɪv] 이그 젝큐티브 : [명사] (기업이나 조직의) 경영[운영] 간부[이사/중역]

※ budget (←budgets) 미국·영국 [ˈbʌdʒɪt] 버짓 : [명사] 예산, (지출 예상) 비용

※ motivate 미국식 [ˈmoʊ-] 모우이vㅔ이트 영국식 [ˈməʊtɪveɪt] : [동사] (흔히 수동태로) (행동 등의) 이유[원인]가 되다

※ diverse 미국식 [-ˈvɜːrs] 다이vㅓㄹ스 영국식 [daɪˈvɜːs] : [형용사] 다양한

 

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One of the unidentifiable objects in this study lies just outside Centaurus A (NGC 5128), an elliptical galaxy located about 12 million light-years from Earth. The other is in a globular cluster of stars found just outside NGC 4636, another elliptical galaxy located 47 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.

※ unidentifiable 미국식 [ˌʌnaɪˈdentɪfaɪəbl] 언 아이던티fㅏ이어블 : [형용사] 정체를 알 수 없는, 신원을 확인할 수 없는

※ globular 미국식 [ˈɡlɑːb-] 글라- 뷸러 영국식 [ˈɡlɒbjələ(r)] : [형용사] 공 모양의, 구(상)형의

 

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Welfare has a special political meaning to the United States because it refers to how the poor receives financial aid. In comparison, welfare services are regarded as a universal right in other regions like Europe, where it is believed that all citizens should be able to obtain a minimal level of social support and well-being.

※ comparison 미국·영국 [kəmˈpærɪsn] 컴 패리슨 : [명사] ~ (with sb/sth) (~와) 비교함

 

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Although introvert and extrovert personality types differ from one another on various grounds, the major difference between the two is their source of rejuvenation. While for extroverts, this may mean interaction or excursions with friends and family, the same may mean reading a book or listening to music for introverts.

 

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Moods may also have an effect on how information is processed, by influencing the extent to which judges rely on pre-existing, internal information, or focus on new, external information. Positive moods promote more holistic and top-down processing style, while negative moods recruit more stimulus-driven and bottom-up processing.

 

10

The problem begins with the alphabet itself. Building a spelling system for English using letters that come from Latin – despite the two languages not sharing exactly the same set of sounds – is like building a playroom using an IKEA office set.

 

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Modern buildings have to achieve certain performance requirements, at least to satisfy those of building codes, to provide a safe, healthy, and comfortable environment. However, these conditioned environments demand resources in energy and materials, which are both limited in supply, to build and operate.

 

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Three professors from Hamburg University's medical faculty travelled last month to Ingeborg's sitting room in East Berlin to test her on the work she carried out in pre-war Germany.

 

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This finding is understandable in certain cases in spite of its high significance; that is because energy efficiency of building operation just represents a single aspect of sustainability.

 

14

The numbers on US student debt, after all, are truly staggering. The average 2015 US university graduate who took out loans to help pay for tuition enters the workforce with $35,000 in student debt.

※ staggering 미국식 [ˈstæɡərɪŋ] 스태거링 : [형용사] (너무 엄청나서) 충격적인, 믿기 어려운

※ tuition 미국식 [tu-] 투-위션 영국식 [tjuˈɪʃn] : [명사] ~ (in sth) (격식) 수업, 교습(특히 개인·소규모 집단을 대상으로 한 것)