안녕하세요 선생님, 150제 문제풀면서 질문드립니다.

 

7번은 질문 자체에 대한 설명을 부탁드려도 될까요?

Hard Section 7.

That today's students of American culture tend to ----- classical music is understandable. In our own time, America's musical high culture has degenerated into a formulaic entertainment divorced from the contemporary moment. Thus, to miss out on what our orchestras are up to is not to ___ much. In the late Gilded Age, however, musidc was widely esteemed as the queen of the arts. Classical music was in its American heyday, ___ the culture at large.

(i)            (ii)                (iii)

promote      sacrifice         antagonistic toward

reinterpret    appreciate       generally rejected by

ignore        malign            centrally embedded in

 

8번은 2번과, 3번 빈칸은 이해가 되었지만 첫번째 빈칸의 정답이 이해가 되지 않았습니다. 설명을 부탁드려도 될까요?

Hard Section 8.

The serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularly credited with having rendered obsolete a once-dominet view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art. Yet this alteration of attitudes may be somewhat _____. Although it is not academically respectable to analyze popular culture, the fact that many intellectuals feel compelled to rationalize their own ------ action movies or mass-market fiction reveals, perhaps unwittingly, their continued ___  the old hierarchy of high and low culture.

(i)                   (ii)                (iii)

counterproductive  penchant for     aversion to

underappreciated   distaste for       investment in

overstated          indifference to    misunderstanding of