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Daily Practice 2022. 3. 22. 14:40

다음 글을 읽고, 물음에 답하시오.

(A) When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day the fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena, a structure which well deserved its name.

(B) When all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king, surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on one side of the arena, (a)he gave a signal, a door beneath him opened, and the accused subject stepped out into the amphitheater. Directly opposite him, on the other side of the inclosed space, were two doors, exactly alike and side by side. He could open either door he pleased. If (b)he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt.

*amphitheater 원형 경기장

 

(C) This was the king's semi-barbaric method of administering justice. Its perfect fairness is obvious. The criminal could not know out of which door would come the lady; (c)he opened either he pleased, without having the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured or married. On some occasions the tiger came out of one door, and on some out of the other. 

 

(D) But, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady (d)he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence. It mattered not that (e)he might already possess a wife and family, or that his affections might be engaged upon an object of his own selection; the king allowed no such subordinate arrangements to interfere with his great scheme of retribution and reward. 

 

01. 주어진 글 (A)에 이어질 내용을 순서에 맞게 배열한 것으로 가장 적절한 것은?

① (B) - (C) - (D)    ② (B) - (D) - (C)    ③ (C) - (B) - (D)

④ (C) - (D) - (B)    ⑤ (D) - (C) - (B)

 

02. 밑줄 친 (a)~(e) 중에서 가리키는 대상이 나머지 넷과 다른 것은?

① (a)    ② (b)    ③ (c)    ④ (d)    ⑤ (e)

 

03. 윗글의 관한 내용으로 적절하지 않은 것은?

① 피고인은 왕의 경기장에서 운명이 결정되었다.

② 왕이 왕좌에서 신호를 보내면 피고인은 원형 경기장으로 들어갔다.

③ 피고인은 어느 문에서 미녀가 나올지 알 수 없었다.

④ 문에서 호랑이가 나오면 피고인은 죄에 대한 벌로 찢겨죽었다.

⑤ 문에서 미녀가 나왔을 때, 피고인이 총각이라면 미녀와 즉시 결혼을 하게되었다.

 

정답 : 01. ② / 02. ① / 03. ⑤

원문 : The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton (1882)

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