29. 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 어법상 틀린 것은? [3점]
Despite abundant warnings that we shouldn’t measure ourselves against others, most of us still do. We’re not only meaningseeking creatures but social ① ones as well, constantly making interpersonal comparisons to evaluate ourselves, improve our standing, and enhance our selfesteem. But the problem with social comparison is that it often backfires. When comparing ourselves to someone who’s doing better than we are, we often feel ② inadequate for not doing as well. This sometimes leads to what psychologists call malignant envy, the desire for someone ③ to meet with misfortune (“I wish she didn’t have what she has”). Also, comparing ourselves with someone who’s doing worse than we are ④ risk scorn, the feeling that others are something undeserving of our beneficence (“She’s beneath my notice”). Then again, comparing ourselves to others can also lead to benign envy, the longing to reproduce someone else’s accomplishments without wishing them ill (“I wish I had what she has”), ⑤ which has been shown in some circumstances to inspire and motivate us to increase our efforts in spite of a recent failure.
* backfire: 역효과를 내다 ** scorn: 경멸
30. 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 문맥상 낱말의 쓰임이 적절하지 않은 것은? [3점]
What exactly does normal science involve? According to Thomas Kuhn it is primarily a matter of puzzlesolving. However successful a paradigm is, it will always ① encounter certain problems — phenomena which it cannot easily accommodate, or mismatches between the theory’s predictions and the experimental facts. The job of the normal scientist is to try to ② eliminate these minor puzzles while making as few changes as possible to the paradigm. So normal science is a ③ conservative activity — its practitioners are not trying to make any earthshattering discoveries, but rather just to develop and extend the existing paradigm. In Kuhn’s words, ‘normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory, and when successful finds none’. Above all, Kuhn stressed that normal scientists are not trying to test the paradigm. On the contrary, they accept the paradigm ④ unquestioningly, and conduct their research within the limits it sets. If a normal scientist gets an experimental result which ⑤ corresponds with the paradigm, they will usually assume that their experimental technique is faulty, not that the paradigm is wrong.
* practitioner: (어떤 일을) 실행하는 사람
