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PART 01 일반영어와 문학 만점을 위하여 _ 7

1. 일반영어와 문학에서 어려움을 겪는 이유 ·······························8
2. 올바른 영어 독해 공부 방법 ·····································18

PART 02 속독을 위한 영어 구문 분석 _ 25

1. 모르는 부분의 추론은 다음과 같은 네 가지 원칙을 따르자 ······················26
① 지시어(구)의 대상을 찾는다. ······································27
② 문맥 속에서 상호 관련된 어구에 주목한다. ····························31
③ 설명 또는 비교의 대상을 찾는다. ···································34
④ 논리적으로 접근한다. ·········································38

2. 어려운 부분을 쉽게 파악하는 방법 ···································41
① 같은 말을 반복하지 않고 다른 표현으로 바꿔 서술하는 영어의 특성 ··············42
② 재술 구조 ···············································45

3. 속독의 원칙 (The Rudiments of Speed Reading in English) ··················48
① 속독의 원칙 1 : 주제를 빨리 파악한다. ·······························48
② 속독의 원칙 2 : 문맥의 길잡이가 되는 안내어에 주목한다. ···················51
③ 속독의 원칙 3 : 앞의 내용에 기반하여 뒤에 올 내용을 예측하며 읽으면 읽기 속도를 높일 수 있다. ···········································56

PART 03 장문 독해 지문 _ 59

1. 일반영어 ················································60
01. What Suffering Does ·········································60
02. The bluster imbalance ········································64
03. Three Myths About the Brain ···································68
04. The distorting reality of 'false balance' in the media ······················72
05. Dangerous Divisiveness ·······································76
06. Teaching Is Not a Business ···································80
07. Inequality Is a Drag ········································84
08. Relax, your kids will be fine ···································88
09. Harvard Alums Still Say They Went to College in Boston ···················92
10. The Structures of Growth ······································96
11. Diet Lures and Diet Lies ·····································100
12. The Mental Virtues ········································105
13. Is American democracy headed to extinction? ························109
14. Hello, Stranger ···········································113
15. Introspective or Narcissistic? ··································118
16. The one fight to have before your wedding ··························123

2. 문학 지문 ···············································127
① 소설 ··················································127
01. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser ····························127
02. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ·····························136
03. Call of the Wild by Jack London ··································139
04. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery ························146

② 시 ··················································156
01. Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay ····················156
02. To Science by Edgar Allan Poe ··································157
03. “Under the greenwood tree” by William Shakespeare ·······················158
04. I Should Not Dare To Leave My Friend by Emily Dickinson ··················159

③ 희곡 ··················································160
01. The Crucible by Arthur Miller ····································160
02. Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw ··························163
03. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams ·························165
04. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ····························168

□ 장문 독해 지문 번역 _ 171
1. 일반영어 지문 번역 ·········································172
2. 문학 지문 번역 ············································204