[영어대체] Short Reading #9 (GE11)

Great cities are strange phenomena.

It is wrong to compare them with beehives, for in a beehive the wish of the individual has been unquestioningly sacrificed to the good of the community.

Had we ascended from the bee perhaps the greatest happiness we could achieve would be an unspectacular death in the service of London.

But in London, as in all modern cities, it is the (individual) that counts.

Our eight millions split themselves up into ones and twos: little men and little women dreaming their private dreams, pursuing their own ambitions, crying over their own failures, and rejoicing at their own successes.


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만약 우리가 벌이라면 우리가 달성할 수 있는 가장 큰 행복은 런던을 위해 죽는 것이다.

2. individual


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In our own economic system _ gives a universal measure of values, a convenient medium of exchange through which we can buy or sell almost anything, and also a standard by which payments at one time can be expressed as commitments for the future.

In a wider sense it allow for economic process.

In a primitive society without money, we might expect all this to be absent, yet the economic process goes on.

There is a recognition of services, and payment is made for them; there are means of absorbing people into the productive process, and values are expressed in quantitative terms, measured by traditional standards.

1. money

2. 위 글에서 우리는 현대와 원시사회의 가치측정의 차이를 어떻게 구별할수 있을지 간략하게 말해보시오.
지폐의 유무


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Research has shown that it is nearly impossible to develop fatigue by studying, even by studying hard.

We get tired readily enough but this happens because we feel boredom with the subject, not because we are mentally or physically fatigued.

You may push away a textbook saying, "I am fatigued! I can't read another word", and then casually pick up a magazine and read, without any sign of fatigue, for some time.

위글은 사람들이 혼동하는 두 개념을 다루고 있다. 무엇인지 찾아 적으시오.
fatigue 와 boredom