[청랑 킬러문항] 2027 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #84

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Classical economics rests on a premise most people find easy to accept: more choice means more freedom, and more freedom means a better life. A shop stocking fifty varieties of jam rather than five seems straightforwardly better for the customer, who now has a higher chance of finding exactly what suits them. Research in psychology, however, suggests the opposite tends to happen. When the number of options grows large, the effort required to evaluate them stops feeling like opportunity and starts feeling like obligation. People freeze, defer, or simply walk away. When a choice is finally made, the discarded alternatives do not disappear from mind. Each one represents a version of the outcome that might have been better, and the awareness of those lost possibilities quietly erodes satisfaction with what was actually chosen. Adding to this, a wide field of options raises the standard against which any single choice is measured. What once would have seemed perfectly acceptable now looks like a compromise, because somewhere in the remaining options, something better might have existed. When the chosen item falls short of a standard that was only made possible by the abundance of choices, the person tends to hold themselves responsible. Taken together, these effects suggest that in a world of abundant options, the path to greater contentment is not to search more thoroughly, but to ______________________.

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Vocabulary

premise	전제
straightforwardly	단순하게, 명백히
defer	미루다, 연기하다
discard	버리다, 폐기하다
erode	서서히 약화시키다, 침식하다
compromise	타협, 차선책
abundance	풍부함, 과잉
contentment	만족, 흡족함
obligation	의무, 부담
thoroughly	철저히, 꼼꼼하게

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① demand that the available options be curated and reduced by external authorities
② rely on others' recommendations to avoid the cognitive burden of personal evaluation
③ approach each decision as a chance to identify and correct past errors in judgment
④ set a workable standard and stop once something meets it 
⑤ expand the range of criteria used to assess each available alternative more precisely

 

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