SAT 리딩 기출 유형 2 – Words in Context

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SAT 리딩 기출 유형 Words in Context 문제 세트입니다.
상위권 대비용 어휘 문맥 추론 훈련 자료로, 단어의 의미가 문장에서 어떻게 달라지는지 집중하세요.
문맥 단서 확인 → 선택지 의미 비교 → 가장 논리적이고 정밀한 단어 선택 순서로 연습해 보세요.
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SAT 리딩 기출 유형 — Words in Context (상위권 · Long Passages)

When policymakers ask scientists for a single number to represent future sea-level rise, they are often frustrated to receive a range. But the range reflects not reluctance, only intellectual honesty: small differences in glacier melt rates and ocean heat uptake cascade into divergent forecasts. The research consortium has therefore urged agencies to communicate uncertainty without undermining urgency—explaining, for example, that the most likely outcome sits within a band whose outer limits are less probable but consequential. In public briefings, team leads now carefully ______ their claims, pairing medians with confidence intervals and explicitly distinguishing “plausible” from “probable.” The result is a message that resists sensationalism without lapsing into complacency.

1) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?




The exhibition promises to let the objects “speak for themselves,” yet the wall text seldom allows such speaking. Each label, dense with directives about what viewers ought to think, corrals interpretation toward a single sanctioned reading of history. Where ambiguity could invite curiosity, paragraphs instead explain, summarize, and preempt dissent. The tone is not merely informative but insistently instructional; the language assumes novices who must be guided step by step. In short, the prose adopts a decidedly ______ tenor that risks flattening the artworks’ multivocality.

2) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?




The city’s donation platform initially attracted few participants: residents reported that creating an account, verifying identity, and navigating multiple screens felt like friction, not philanthropy. In response, designers consolidated steps, prefilled fields with secure records, and added clear progress indicators. None of these changes altered residents’ generosity per se; rather, they sought to ______ the nuisance costs that had masked generous intentions. Once the procedural thicket thinned, small gifts multiplied, even as average gift size held steady.

3) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?






For weeks the junior researcher rehearsed how to present an alternative interpretation of the data—a reading that complicated the principal investigator’s favored model. She worried that her suggestion would be dismissed as naïveté, yet the anomaly persisted across runs. When a lull opened in the agenda, she decided to ______ the possibility that the outliers were not errors but signals of a boundary condition the model ignored. The room fell quiet, and then, to her surprise, the PI asked her to walk the team through the derivation.

4) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?




The task force was convened to draft a transit plan for a metropolis whose commuters cross municipal boundaries as casually as streets. Yet the draft inexplicably centers only on the jurisdiction that commissioned it, as if buses and trains respect the edges printed on a map. By treating neighboring districts as afterthoughts, the plan confuses administrative neatness with commuter reality. Critics have called this perspective ______: its narrowness would strand riders whose daily lives are metropolitan, not municipal.

5) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?




Supplies were ample at the outset, but the captain insisted on nightly feasts to rally morale, and the casks dwindled faster than the charts allowed. When storms delayed landfall by a week, the crew rationed hardtack while the captain bargained for fresh fruit at triple the usual price. His defenders praised his generosity; the quartermaster, tallying deficits, called the habits ______, noting that cheer bought on credit would cost them dearly mid-ocean.

6) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?




After the board voted to pause deployment until the safety audit concluded, the CEO informed managers that “timelines remain unchanged” and urged teams to proceed. Within hours the chair issued a memo reaffirming the vote and warning that any directive to the contrary was unauthorized. The memo did not chastise by name; instead, it explicitly ______ the go-ahead, restoring the pause while the audit team finalized its report.

7) Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?






SAT Words in Context 정답 확인

SAT 리딩 기출 — Words in Context 문제 푸는 방법



1. 단어의 기본 뜻보다 문맥을 우선하세요

  • 사전적 정의보다, 지문 안에서의 의미가 중요합니다.
  • 예: “critical”은 ‘비판적인’이 아니라 ‘결정적인’ 의미로 쓰일 수 있습니다.

2. 앞뒤 문장에서 힌트를 찾으세요

  • 지문의 한 문장만 보지 말고, 앞뒤 문맥에서 그 단어의 역할을 확인하세요.
  • 예: “The scientist made a critical discovery.” → 여기서 critical = 중요한.

3. 보기 중 가장 단순하고 직관적인 선택지를 고르세요

  • Words in Context 문제는 흔히 “과하게 전문적이거나 생소한 단어”를 정답으로 쓰지 않습니다.
  • 일반적으로 쓰이는, 평이한 의미를 고르는 경우가 많습니다.

4. 대체 문장 넣기 전략

  • 정답이라고 생각하는 단어를 실제 문장에 넣어보고, 자연스럽게 문맥에 맞는지 확인하세요.

5. ‘어조’와 ‘작가 의도’ 확인

  • 단어가 부정적·긍정적 톤을 갖는지, 글 전체 분위기와 맞는지 꼭 확인하세요.

📌 SAT 리딩 기출 Words in Context 핵심 전략

  • 사전보다 문맥: 지문에서 단어가 어떤 의미로 쓰였는지가 우선입니다.
  • 앞뒤 힌트 활용: 같은 단락의 다른 문장이 정답을 결정하는 단서가 됩니다.
  • 간단한 의미 선호: 지나치게 복잡한 보기는 대부분 오답.
  • 대체 문장 체크: 보기 단어를 실제 문장에 넣었을 때 매끄럽다면 정답일 가능성이 높습니다.
  • 어조 일치: 단어가 글 전체 분위기와 맞는지 반드시 확인하세요.

SAT 리딩 기출 상위권 전략 — Words in Context 정밀 독해

  • 다의어 구분: SAT는 흔히 여러 뜻을 가진 단어(critical, novel, sanction)를 활용합니다. 과학·문학·사회 맥락에서 의미가 달라지므로 지문 주제를 먼저 파악하세요.
  • 전환어/접속사 단서: however, although, rather 등은 단어 의미가 반대·대비되는 방향임을 시사합니다.
  • 오답 소거법: (i) 일반적 쓰임과 거리가 먼 전문적 정의, (ii) 긍정/부정 어조 불일치, (iii) 지문 외 새로운 정보, (iv) 단어의 ‘주제와 무관’한 의미는 제거하세요.
  • 상위권 풀이법: 단어를 paraphrase(다른 말로 풀기)해 보고, 가장 짧고 명확한 정의와 일치하는 선택지를 찾으세요.



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