[고3] 2025년 3월 모의고사 36번 - 지문 구성, 그림 설명, 원문 비교

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What would a language be like if it didn't make any simplifications or generalizations? It would be a language in which every word was a proper noun. Because you don't want to gloss over the differences between snakes that are slightly different in some respect, every snake must have its own name. Furthermore, every event must have its own verb, because not every occasion of thinking or dancing or talking is identical. There might be some superintelligent race of beings that could know such a language, but they would have to know virtually everything in the world to learn all these names. Human language has taken a different route ─ many fewer names, with a loss of precision, but a basic vocabulary that is readily acquired. However, this fact is not simply a compromise with our limited cognitive capacity. By using the same word for different objects, we're communicating information about those things. Calling two different-looking things "spider" communicates that they probably have eight legs, weave nests, eat insects, and other noticeable details, which we would not know if we gave them all their own separate names.

 

 

구분	내용 설명	원문
문제 제기	만약 언어가 단순화나 일반화를 하지 않는다면 어떤 모습일지 질문을 던짐	What would a language be like if it didn't make any simplifications or generalizations? It would be a language in which every word was a proper noun.
예시	단순화를 하지 않으면 모든 뱀과 사건에 각각 고유한 이름과 동사가 필요함을 설명함	Because you don't want to gloss over the differences between snakes that are slightly different in some respect, every snake must have its own name. Furthermore, every event must have its own verb, because not every occasion of thinking or dancing or talking is identical.
반론	그런 언어는 슈퍼지능이 있어야 배울 수 있고, 인간 언어는 다른 길을 선택했음을 말함	There might be some superintelligent race of beings that could know such a language, but they would have to know virtually everything in the world to learn all these names. Human language has taken a different route ─ many fewer names, with a loss of precision, but a basic vocabulary that is readily acquired.
주장	단어 수를 줄이는 것은 단지 한계 때문이 아니라, 오히려 정보를 전달하는 방법임을 강조함	However, this fact is not simply a compromise with our limited cognitive capacity. By using the same word for different objects, we're communicating information about those things.
예시	‘spider’라는 단어가 다양한 외형의 거미에 공통된 정보를 전달한다는 예를 제시함	Calling two different-looking things "spider" communicates that they probably have eight legs, weave nests, eat insects, and other noticeable details, which we would not know if we gave them all their own separate names.

 

 

 

 

 

	문제 지문	원문 지문
1	What would a language be like if it didn't make any simplifications or generalizations?	What would a language be like if it didn’t make any simplifications or generalizations?
2	It would be a language in which every word was a proper noun.	It would be a language in which every word was a proper noun.
3	Because you don't want to gloss over the differences between snakes that are slightly different in some respect, every snake must have its own name.	Because you don’t want to gloss over the differences between snakes that are slightly different in some respect, every snake must have its own name.
4	Furthermore, every event must have its own verb, because not every occasion of thinking or dancing or talking is identical.	Furthermore, every event must have its own verb, because not every occasion of thinking or dancing or talking is identical.
5	There might be some superintelligent race of beings that could know such a language, but they would have to know virtually everything in the world to learn all these names.	There might be some superintelligent race of beings that could know such a language, but they would have to know virtually everything in the world to learn all these names.
6	Human language has taken a different route ─ many fewer names, with a loss of precision, but a basic vocabulary that is readily acquired.	Human language has taken a different route—many fewer names, with a loss of precision, but a basic vocabulary that is readily acquired.
7	However, this fact is not simply a compromise with our limited cognitive capacity.	However, this fact is not simply a compromise with our limited cognitive capacity.
8	By using the same word for different objects, we're communicating information about those things.	By using the same word for different objects, we’re communicating information about those things.
9	Calling two different-looking things "spider" communicates that they probably have eight legs, weave nests, eat insects, and other noticeable details, which we would not know if we gave them all their own separate names.	Calling two different-looking things “spider” communicates that they probably have eight legs, weave nests, eat insects, and other salient details, which we would not know if we gave them all their own separate names.

 

* 원문 참고 어휘

 

• salient 뚜렷한, 두드러진 (= noticeable)

 

 

 

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