2025학년도 3월 고3 전국연합학력평가 영어 36번 문제

 36. 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것 을 고르시오

What would a language be like if it didn't make any simplifications or generalizations?

(A) There might be some superintelligent race of beings that could know such a language, but they would have to know virtually everything in the world to learn all these names. Human language has taken a different route many fewer names, with a loss of precision, but a basic vocabulary that is readily acquired. However, this fact is not simply a compromise with our limited cognitive capacity.

(B) By using the same word for different objects, we're communicating information about those things. Calling two different-looking things "spider" communicates that they probably have eight legs, weave nests, eat insects, and other noticeable details, which we would not know if we gave them all their own separate names.

(C) It would be a language in which every word was a proper noun. Because you don't want to gloss over the differences between snakes that are slightly different in some respect, every snake must have its own name. Furthermore, every event must have its own verb, because not every occasion of thinking or dancing or talking is identical.

* gloss over: ~에 대해 얼버무리고 넘어가다

정답: (C)-(A)-(B)

What would a language be like if it didn't make any simplifications or generalizations?

단순화나 일반화를 하지 않는다면 언어는 어떤 모습일까요?

(A) There might be some superintelligent race of beings that could know such a language, but they would have to know virtually everything in the world to learn all these names. Human language has taken a different route many fewer names, with a loss of precision, but a basic vocabulary that is readily acquired. However, this fact is not simply a compromise with our limited cognitive capacity. (A) 그러한 언어를 알 수 있는 초지능적인 종족이 있을지도 모르지만, 그들은 이 모든 이름을 배우려면 세상의 거의 모든 것을 알아야 할 것입니다. 인간 언어는 훨씬 적은 수의 이름, 정확성의 손실, 그리고 쉽게 습득할 수 있는 기본적인 어휘를 사용하는 다른 길을 택했습니다. 그러나 이는 단순히 우리의 제한된 인지 능력과의 타협이 아닙니다.

(B) By using the same word for different objects, we're communicating information about those things. Calling two different-looking things "spider" communicates that they probably have eight legs, weave nests, eat insects, and other noticeable details, which we would not know if we gave them all their own separate names. (B) 서로 다른 사물에 같은 단어를 사용함으로써 우리는 그 사물들에 대한 정보를 전달하고 있습니다. 서로 다른 두 가지 사물을 "거미"라고 부르는 것은 그들이 아마도 여덟 개의 다리를 가지고 있고, 둥지를 틀고, 곤충을 먹고, 그리고 우리가 그것들에게 각각 다른 이름을 붙인다면 알 수 없는 다른 눈에 띄는 세부 사항들을 가지고 있다는 것을 전달합니다.

(C) It would be a language in which every word was a proper noun. Because you don't want to gloss over the differences between snakes that are slightly different in some respect, every snake must have its own name. Furthermore, every event must have its own verb, because not every occasion of thinking or dancing or talking is identical.

(C) 모든 단어가 고유 명사인 언어가 될 것입니다. 어떤 면에서 약간씩 다른 뱀들 사이의 차이점을 얼버무리고 싶지 않기 때문에, 모든 뱀은 고유한 이름을 가져야 합니다. 더욱이 모든 사건에는 고유한 동사가 있어야 합니다. 생각하거나 춤추거나 말하는 모든 상황이 동일하지 않기 때문입니다.