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Listening for the last quiet places

At six o'clock on a Tuesday morning, the botanist Imre Valk stands at the edge of a drained reservoir and does nothing at all. For eleven minutes he listens. A distant tractor, a wren, the faint tick of cooling stones: that, he says, is as good as it gets.

Valk has spent the best part of a decade mapping what he calls acoustic refuges, places where no human-made sound intrudes for a quarter of an hour at a stretch. When he began, he expected to find them in the remoter reaches of the country. Instead he found that they were vanishing everywhere, shrinking like ice at the edge of a warming sea. Of the three hundred sites he surveyed, fewer than forty still qualify.

The causes are unglamorous: ring roads, delivery drones, the ceaseless hum of ventilation plants. But Valk is more interested in the consequences, which are subtler than mere irritation. Studies he cites suggest that sustained noise nudges up stress hormones even in people who claim to have grown accustomed to it. Habituation, he argues, is not the same as immunity; we simply stop reporting a cost that we continue to pay.

Not everyone is persuaded. Critics point out that cities have always been noisy, and that the clatter of a nineteenth-century street would make a modern commuter wince. Valk concedes the point with a shrug. "Noise is not new," he says. "What is new is that there is no longer anywhere to retreat to."

That, perhaps, is the heart of the matter. Silence has become a scarce resource and, like most scarce resources, it is beginning to be sold. Hotels advertise rooms free of electronic hum; some retreats charge a small fortune for the privilege of being told to say nothing. It is a curious irony that something once available to anyone with a field and a free afternoon should now come with a price tag.

Valk has little patience for such enterprises. His own modest campaign aims to have a handful of the surviving refuges protected, much as ancient woodland is. Whether it succeeds is hard to say. As the light strengthens over the reservoir, a car door slams somewhere beyond the trees, and his eleven minutes are over. He writes the time in his notebook and, with the air of a man making a modest entry in a ledger, closes it.

어조, 이미지, 효과

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Which opening is best suited to a magazine feature?
- a) This article discusses the problem of noise in cities.
- b) Noise is a problem for many people nowadays.
- c) At six o'clock on a Tuesday morning, a botanist stands at the edge of a reservoir and does nothing at all.
"Shrinking like ice at the edge of a warming sea" is an example of which device?
- a) metaphor
- b) personification
- c) litotes
- d) simile
"Habituation is not the same as immunity." What does the writer imply?
- a) People who stop noticing noise are still affected by it.
- b) Noise protects people from stress.
- c) People never get used to noise.
- d) Noise has no effect on health.
"Valk concedes the point with a shrug." What does the shrug suggest?
- a) He is angry with his critics.
- b) He accepts the point without feeling threatened by it.
- c) He has no interest in his own research.
- d) He is unable to answer the criticism.
Silence has become a ___ resource.
- a) sparse
- b) scarce
- c) meagre
- d) slender
Which ending is most effective for a feature article?
- a) In conclusion, noise is a serious problem.
- b) Therefore, more research is needed.
- c) He writes the time in his notebook and closes it, like a man making an entry in a ledger.
Which phrase attributes a claim most cautiously?
- a) Everyone knows that
- b) Studies he cites suggest that
- c) It has been proved beyond doubt that
- d) There can be no question that

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Valk has spent the best part ___ a decade mapping acoustic refuges.
Valk has little patience ___ such enterprises.
Of the three hundred sites he surveyed, fewer ___ forty still qualify.
It is a curious irony that something once available ___ anyone with a free afternoon should now cost money.
Critics point ___ that cities have always been noisy.
He wants a few refuges protected, much ___ ancient woodland is.
The refuges were vanishing everywhere, ___ like ice at the edge of a warming sea. (shrink)

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내 글 확인

도입부가 주제를 진술하는 것이 아니라 구체적인 장면입니다.
인용을 이끄는 동사와 함께 짧고 자연스러운 인용문을 포함했습니다.
잘 고른 직유나 은유를 최소 하나 사용했고 지나치게 설명하지 않았습니다.
회의적이거나 반대되는 견해를 공정하게 인정했습니다.
문장 길이를 다양하게 했고 in conclusion 같은 요약 표현을 피했습니다.
도입부와 호응하는 이미지나 몸짓으로 끝맺었습니다.

정답

어조, 이미지, 효과

c) At six o'clock on a Tuesday morning, a botanist stands at the edge of a reservoir and does nothing at all.뜻밖의 세부 사항이 있는 구체적인 장면이 독자를 끌어들입니다. 나머지 도입부는 주제를 단순히 알리거나 진술할 뿐입니다.
d) similelike라는 단어는 직접 비교를 만들므로 직유입니다. 은유라면 the refuges were ice라고 말했을 것입니다.
a) People who stop noticing noise are still affected by it.요점은 어떤 것에 익숙해진다고 해서 그 해로움이 없어지지는 않는다는 것입니다.
b) He accepts the point without feeling threatened by it.여기서 shrug는 느긋한 수긍을 보여 줍니다. 그 말은 사실이지만 그의 주장에 타격을 주지는 않습니다.
b) scarceScarce resource는 희귀해진 것을 나타내는 고정된 연어입니다. Sparse는 드문드문 퍼져 있는 것을 나타내고, meagre와 slender는 누군가가 가진 적은 양(meagre resources)을 나타내며, 구하기 어려워진 것을 나타내지 않습니다.
c) He writes the time in his notebook and closes it, like a man making an entry in a ledger.특집 기사는 흔히 이미지나 몸짓으로 끝납니다. 나머지 결말은 요약하거나 기계적으로 결론을 진술합니다.
b) Studies he cites suggest thatSuggest는 주장을 적절한 수준으로 유지하고 출처를 밝힙니다. 나머지 표현들은 확실성을 과장합니다.

문장 완성하기

ofThe best part of는 “대부분”이라는 뜻입니다.
for / withPatience for와 patience with는 둘 다 맞습니다.
thanFewer than은 숫자와 함께 쓰는 비교 표현입니다.
toAvailable to someone이 일반적인 구조입니다.
outTo point out은 사실에 주의를 환기한다는 뜻입니다.
asMuch as는 “~와 같은 방식으로”라는 뜻입니다.
shrinking분사 shrinking은 피난처들이 어떻게 사라지고 있었는지를 설명합니다.

모범 답안

On the second floor of a building with no lift, above a shop that sells only buttons, Dalia Reyes bends over a torn map of the Aldermoor hills and begins, very gently, to mend it.

Reyes is one of perhaps a dozen people in the country who repair paper maps by hand. She learned the trade from a retired surveyor, who paid her in tea and sharp criticism. Her tools are few: a bone folder, a jar of wheat paste, tissue so thin that it clings to the air. "You are not fixing the map," she says. "You are persuading it to forget it was ever damaged."

The work is slow. A single fold, worn through after decades in a coat pocket, may take an afternoon. Customers are mostly walkers and the families of the recently deceased, who arrive carrying an atlas annotated in a hand that nobody else will recognise. Reyes treats such pencil notes as sacred, working around them as a gardener works around a seedling.

The difficulty, of course, is that nobody needs her any more. A phone can show the same hills, in real time, and with a blue dot to say where you are standing. Reyes does not disagree. "A screen tells you where you are," she admits. "A map tells you where you might go, and who went there before you." It is a fine line, and one that few of her customers could articulate, but they feel it in the hands.

Her business survives, narrowly, thanks to a small number of loyal clients and a waiting list that she suspects is mostly sentimental. She has taken on one apprentice, a nervous student who, for the first month, was not allowed to touch the paste.

By late afternoon the Aldermoor map lies flat and almost whole, a faint seam running across its highest ridge. Reyes holds it to the window, and the light passes through the hills like a thought.