Korean CSAT English case studies
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대학수학능력시험 영어영역(수능 영어영역)은 한국교육과정평가원(KICE)이 주관하는 대학수학능력시험의 영어 과목으로, 국내 대학 진학을 준비하는 수험생과 영어 능력을 공인된 방식으로 점검하려는 학습자를 위한 시험입니다. KICE는 수능의 안정적 시행을 위한 연구와 수능 성적 자료 분석을 통한 체계적인 교육정책 수립을 지원하는 기관으로 소개되어 있으며, 수능 관련 기출문제는 KICE 자료마당의 기출문제 메뉴를 통해 대학수학능력시험ㆍ모의평가 게시판으로 연결됩니다. The Korean CSAT English case studies are 5 cases and about 2,107 words.
1The Corrected Number in a Repair-Shop Call
On a Tuesday timed practice set, a student working on listening item 11 hears a call to a washing-machine repair shop. Her notes read: 'noise every 30 minutes - then 13 - then 3?' The transcript she makes afterward contains: W: 'It used to thump about every thirty minutes, but now it is more like thirteen.' M: 'Thirteen?
463 words, about 2 min2The Soft Refusal Behind 'I Wish I Could'
During a timed section, a student misses listening item 14, 'What does the woman mean?' The script: M: 'A few of us are grabbing dinner after the seminar on Friday. Want to come?' W: 'I wish I could - the quarterly report is due Saturday morning, and I have not started.' The student's answer sheet shows she chose 'She will join them after finishing her report.' The key says 'She cannot attend the dinner.' Reviewing her log, she explains that 'I wish I could' sounded like agreement and that she assumed the report would be finished before Friday.
423 words, about 2 min3Blank Inference with a 'Not X; Y' Contrast
Reading item 31 presents a five-sentence passage about empty spaces on early modern maps. The blank ends the second sentence: 'The blank interior of Africa was not a confession of ignorance; it was .' The student narrows the choices to (2) 'a deliberate statement about what could not yet be certified' and (4) 'proof that mapmakers had no access to local knowledge.' He picks (4) because a blank feels like missing information.
404 words, about 2 min4Sentence Insertion and the Pronoun 'This'
Item 38 asks where the sentence 'This is precisely why some stores deliberately stock fewer varieties than they could.' belongs in a passage about choice overload. The passage reads: (1) A field experiment set up a tasting table with 24 jams, then with 6.
424 words, about 2 min5Attitude Item with a Qualified Endorsement
Item 42 asks for the author's attitude toward assisted migration, the practice of moving endangered trees north as the climate warms. The passage describes the practice neutrally for four sentences, then concludes: 'Moving species is a gamble, and the histories of invasive introductions urge restraint.
393 words, about 2 min