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Level 9 Workbook โ€” Unit 05: Advanced Metaphors & Historical Allusions


Part A: High-Level Idiom Matching

Match each idiom with its deep situational definition:

Idiom Definition
1. ๊ด„๋ชฉ์ƒ๋Œ€ (ๅˆฎ็›ฎ็›ธๅฐ) (A) Short-sighted temporary fix that worsens the problem later
2. ์ฃผ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ํŽธ (่ตฐ้ฆฌๅŠ ้žญ) (B) Looking at someone with new eyes due to immense progress
3. ์–ธ ๋ฐœ์— ์˜ค์คŒ ๋ˆ„๊ธฐ (C) Spurring someone who is already doing great to do even better
4. ์˜จ๊ณ ์ง€์‹  (ๆบซๆ•…็Ÿฅๆ–ฐ) (D) Deriving new wisdom through reviewing old heritage

Answers: - 1 $\rightarrow$ [ ] - 2 $\rightarrow$ [ ] - 3 $\rightarrow$ [ ] - 4 $\rightarrow$ [ ]


Part B: Contextual Cloze

Fill in the appropriate idiom:

  1. ์ง€๋‚œ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ณณ์—์„œ ํ”ผ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญํ•œ ๋์—, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ (_____)ํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Œ€ํ‘œ ์„ ์ˆ˜๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
  2. ๋ถ€์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ๋ฉ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋Œ€์ถœ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ด์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฐš๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ (_____) ์‹ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์ด๋‹ค.
  3. ์„ ๋ฐฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›๋“ค์˜ ์ถ•์ ๋œ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ (_____)์˜ ํ‘œ๋ณธ์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

(Check your answers in workbook/answer_keys/level_9_answers.md)