SSAT 리딩 - 태도/어조(Tone/Attitude) - SAT·SSAT 기출 문제 핵심 노트

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SSAT 리딩 문제 중 태도/어조(Tone/Attitude) 유형만 엄선했습니다.
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수업에서는 ‘어휘 신호 → 문장 톤 → 결론 태도’로 이어지는 하이레벨 루틴을 전수합니다.

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Passage 1 — Community Air Monitors
Citizen groups have begun installing low-cost air sensors on balconies and school fences. The data are messy—devices drift out of calibration, and readings vary block to block—but the picture they paint is invaluable. Residents finally have something more than hunches when they speak to city officials about diesel traffic near playgrounds. We shouldn’t mistake these monitors for laboratory instruments, yet with careful cross-checking and open sharing, they can push policy in the right direction.

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1) The author’s tone toward community air sensors is best described as

A. cautiously optimistic
B. dismissive
C. alarmist
D. sarcastic
E. indifferent

Passage 2 — Free Museums at Night?
Proponents of free evening hours insist that ticket walls alone keep working families out of museums. It’s a tidy story, but not the whole one. Staffing after dark costs money; so do buses to neighborhoods where families actually live. If we care about access, we should budget for child care, multilingual guides, and transit partnerships—not simply cut prices and congratulate ourselves. Free nights help some visitors, yes, but they are no substitute for thinking seriously about how people get to the door in the first place.

2) The author’s attitude toward “free evening hours” is best characterized as

A. unreservedly enthusiastic
B. apathetic and detached
C. skeptical but evenhanded
D. scornful and mocking
E. sentimental and nostalgic

Passage 3 — Daylighting the River
For decades the creek was buried under parking lots and concrete. Now, block by block, volunteers and city crews are peeling it back into daylight. Schools bring students to test water quality; elders swap stories about when trout still flashed in the shallows. There are spreadsheets and permits, certainly, but most days it feels like a neighborhood learning to breathe again.