스티브잡스의 연설문이 학교 시험문제로 나온다면 어떤 모습일까?

안녕하세요. 굿맨입니다. 

제목 그대로입니다. 과연 "Stay hungry, stay foolish."로 유명한 Steve Jobs의 Standford 연설문이 학교 시험문제로

된다면 어떤 모습일까요? 궁금하지 않나요? 

보통은 학교 시험문제로 교과서, 모의고사, 부교재 정도가 학교 시험범위로 출제됩니다. 그런데 조금 특이한 학교는

이렇게 유명한 연설문을 포함시키거나 소설책 한권을 통째로(보통 특목고) 시험범위에 추가를 하곤 합니다. 

인천의 P고등학교의 경우 Steve Jobs의 연설문을 시험 범위에 포함을 시켰는데요. 결론부터 말씀드리면 차라리

이렇게 시험문제를 내는 것이 더욱더 아이들 영어 실력에는 도움이 되겠구나 싶었습니다. 현재 고등학교 대부분의

시험 스타일로 출제한다기 보다는요. 

현재 고등학교 시험문제(서술형)는 뭐 제 블로그에 오시는 분들은 대부분 선생님이거나 학생들이기 때문에 다들 잘 아실 거라 생각이 듭니다. 사실 좀 문제가 있는 유형들이 많죠. 물론 한 번 본 지문을 가지고 시험문제에 출제하기 때문에 뭐 그러려 할 수도 있습니다. 하지만 과연 그게 영어 실력 향상에 도움이 될 지는 의문입니다. 

각설하고 Steve Jobs의 연설문 내용으로 시험문제를 출제한 케이스를 보여드리도록 하겠습니다. 

일단 이렇게 지문이 등장합니다. 시험지 한 페이지 전체가 지문이더군요. (국어 영역 보는 줄....) 

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[A] I am honored to be with you today at your (A) commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. This is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

 

[B] The first story is about (B) connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. (C) Except that when I popped (ⓐ) they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call (ⓑ) the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found (ⓒ) that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption (D) papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

 

[C] And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost (ⓓ) expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it (ⓔ). And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop (ⓕ) and trust that it would all work (ⓖ) OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. (E) The minute I dropped (ⓗ) I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping (ⓘ) on the ones that looked interesting.

 

[D] It wasn't all (F) romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food (ⓙ), and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled (ⓚ) by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

 

[E] Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. (A) It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. (B) None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. (C) And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. (D) If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. (E) And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

[F] Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something― your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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그리고 이 지문에 대한 문제가 이제 등장합니다. 어떤 문제인지 한 번 보시죠!! 

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첫 번째 문제입니다. 

다음은 위 글에 사용된 단어들의 영영 사전적 정의이다. 본문의 (A)~(F)가 단어의 맥락을 고려했을 때, 올바른 지술로만 짝지어진 것은? (2)

(A) commencement: a ceremony during which degree or diplomas are given to students who have graduated from a school of college.

 

(B) connect the dots: to make connections between seemingly related events so you can understand what is happening.

 

(C) except (that) :used for introducing a statement that makes what you have just said seem less true or less possible.

 

(D) papers: officially existing but not effective or able to be used in real situations.

 

(E) minute: an official written record of what is discussed or decided at a formal meeting.

 

(F) romantic: something that represents a lot about love and strong feelings of love someone.

 

① A, B ② A, C ③ B, C ④ B, E ⑤ D, F

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두 번째 문제입니다. 

다음은 위 글을 읽은 후, 학생들이 배운 내용에 대한 해설 및 추론 분석한 내용이다. 위 글의 내용을 고려했을 때, (A) ~ (H)중 스티브 잡스의 대한 내용으로 적절하지 않은 진술의 개수는?

(A) He delivered the speech at the commencement of the university where he graduated.

 

(B) His real mom had made college education a requirement of his adoption, his biological parents had saved for years so Jobs could go.

 

(C) While he wasn't officially a student at Reed college, he dropped in his required courses that interested him.

 

(D) Jobs believed audiences won't be able to see your future but as time passes they will understand why certain things happened.

 

(E) After 18 months of college, Jobs decided that it would be best for him to drop out of college.

 

(F) Jobs's birthmother changed her mind after agreeing on adoption.

 

(G) He highly felt that other operating system such as Windows simply copied the Mac's typography.

 

(H) He told the college graduate students think carefully about how to spend the time in their life.

 

① 3개 ② 4개 ③ 5개 ④ 6개 ⑤ 7개

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세 번째 문제입니다.  

위 글의 내용을 고려했을 때, 가장 적절한 진술을 하는 학생을 고르면?

① 서형 :스티브 잡스는 대학생 시절에 부모님의 고생을 덜어 드리기 위해 스스로 학비를 마련해 대학 등록금을 충당 했어.

② 상훈 : 스티브 잡스의 생모는 당시에 이혼을 했었고, 학생의 신분이었기 때문에 아이를 양육하는 것이 부담이 되었을 거야.

③ 유진 : 스티브 잡스는 매일 밤 저녁식사를 하기 위해 Hare Krishan Temple을 걸어서 방문 했어.

④ 민주 : 대학교를 중퇴하고, 스티브 잡스는 우연히 컴퓨터를 활용한 글씨체 개발 수업을 듣게 되었고, 이후 자신의 컴퓨터 화면 구성을 개발하는데 적용 했어.

⑤ 진환 : 난 [F] 문단의 ‘made all the difference'의 영영 사전 의미를 찾아보았어. 바로 ’to make a lot of important effects on a person of situation.'이였어.

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네 번째 문제입니다. 

위 글 [E] 단락을 읽고, 보기에 주어진 문장이 들어갈 위치로 적절한 곳의 번호는?

But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

① A ② B ③ C ④ D ⑤ E

  

다섯번째 문제입니다. 

위 글의 (ⓐ)~(ⓚ)가 가리키는 단어 중, 아래 보기 ★이 설명하는 단어가 아닌 단어의 총 개수는?

<보 기>

the word ★'______' is used with many different expressions and idioms and can have many different meanings as an adjective or as an adverb.

 

For instance, the sentence, “He’s ★'______'.” could mean.

1. He’s a soccer player playing offense, and he has to leave the field.

2. He’s no longer a part of the organization. Someone fired him, told him to leave, of decided not to include him in something.

3. He’s not in office. He’s away from your home of place of work.

4. He tells people the truth abotr himself, instead of keeping it a secret.

 

① 2개 ② 3개 ③ 4개 ④ 5개 ⑤ 6개

 

정답이 궁금하신가요?????????

그럼 댓글 많이 달아주시기 바랍니다. ^^ 

바로 올려드리도록 하겠습니다. ^^ 

그럼 지금까지 굿맨이었습니다. 

(2) (4) (5) (3) (4)