There is something deeply paradoxical about the professional status of sports journalism, especially in the medium of print. In discharging their usual responsibilities of desc/2ion and commentary, reporters’ accounts of sports events are eagerly consulted by sports fans, while in their broader journalistic role of covering sport in its many forms, sports journalists are among the most visible of all contemporary writers. The ruminations of the elite class of ‘celebrity’ sports journalists are much sought after by the major newspapers, their lucrative contracts being the envy of colleagues in other ‘disciplines’ of journalism. Yet sports journalists do not have a standing in their profession that corresponds to the size of their readerships or of their pay packets, with the old saying (now reaching the status of cliché) that sport is the ‘toy department of the news media’ still readily to hand as a dismissal of the worth of what sports journalists do. This reluctance to take sports journalism seriously produces the paradoxical outcome that sports newspaper writers are much read but little ( 빈칸 ).

* discharge: 이행하다 ** rumination: 생각*** lucrative: 돈을 많이 버는

1. paid 2. admired 3. censored 4. challenged 5. discussed

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먼저 빈칸 주변을 봅니다.

This reluctance (to take sports journalism seriously) produces the paradoxical outcome that sports newspaper writers are much read but little ( 빈칸 ) .

스포츠 저널리즘을 진지하게 받아들이기를 꺼리는 것을 paradoxical outcome(역설적인 결과)를 낳는다.

스포츠 기자들이 쓴 글이 많이 읽힌다. 그러나 little(빈칸)

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1. paradoxical로 보아 that절에는 상반된 내용이 나오겠지? (point. 글 논리 예측하며 읽기)

2. that절에는 서로 상반된 내용이 나와야 합니다. 쭉 보니 sports newspaper writers are much read(긍정적 내용)이 나옵니다. 상반된 내용이 이어지기 위해서는 부정적 내용이 나와야하는데요. little(부정어) 있으니 빈칸에는 긍정적 내용이 나와야합니다.

긍정 + 부정으로 상반된 내용이 나와야하니까요. 그런데 여기에 little이 껴있으니 좀 헷갈리네요 ㅠㅠ

3. 결론적으로 빈칸에는 sports journalism에 관한 이야기와 지시어 This와 관련해서 근거를 찾아야합니다.

Yet sports journalists do not have a standing in their profession that corresponds to the size of their readerships or of their pay packets, with the old saying (now reaching the status of cliché) that sport is the ‘toy department of the news media’ still readily to hand as a dismissal of the worth of what sports journalists do.

직전 문장의 not, dismissal => 빈칸 문장의 little로 부정어의 맥락이 이어집니다.(같은 의미)

not과 dismissal 뒤의 내용이 빈칸에 들어가야겠죠?

standing / worth => 그래서 빈칸에는 standing, worth와 관련된 내용이 들어가야합니다.

그럼 선지를 살펴보겠습니다.

1. paid : 아예 관련없음

2. admired을 빈칸에 넣어보면 little admired 거의 존중받지 못한다. 이니 2번이 정답입니다.

3-5 censored / challenged / discussed : 전부 답의 기준으로 설정한 standing / worth와 연관없음.

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