[신나는 공부]Let's Think! 영어사고력 문제

■ 응모문제 ■

Four soccer teams of different nationality played each other once. The following chart shows the result. If the U.S. defeated Japan by 3:0, what is the result of the match between Japan and China?

Tip

tie → 무승부

score → 점수

■ 도전! 하나 ■

Put a line into the clock (as seen in the example below) to make the sum of all of the numbers on one part of the line should be the same as the sum of the numbers on the other part of the line.

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선으로 숫자들을 양쪽으로 나눴을 때 각 숫자의 합이 같아야 합니다. 일단 그 합이 얼마가 되어야 할지 생각해 보세요.

■ 도전! 둘 ■

A pentomino is a figure made of 5 connected squares. Find a way to entirely cover the following green square with the five different pentomino given below.

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펜토미노는 다섯 개의 정사각형을 이은 모양입니다. 주어진 정사각형의 스물다섯 칸을 다섯 개의 펜토미노로 남김없이 채우는 문제입니다.

■ 도전! 셋 ■

Complete the given equation by adding plus signs in between the numbers from 1 to 9 as in the sample equation below. If you cannot, explain why.

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예에서는 2와 3 사이에 덧셈부호를 넣지 않아 23이라는 숫자를 만들었습니다. 식의 결과가 99가 되려면 어디에 덧셈부호를 넣지 말아야 할지 생각해봅시다.

■ 도전! 넷 ■

The numbers are written downward on the below bee-hive figures. Find out the rule behind from the example on the left hand side, and fill in the blanks in the figure on the right hand side.

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downward → 아래 방향으로

rule behind → 숨겨진 법칙

위에서 아래로 어떤 규칙이 작용하고 있는지 찾는 문제입니다.

■ 도전! 다섯 ■

There was a robbery of a top national secret. The information says that the suspect is wearing a black coat and got on Eurail to Rome. The Interpole went there to catch him, but four possible suspects got off the train with their coats off. They were American, Chinese, Arabic and Russian. The following statements came from the train crew. Guess who the suspect is, and who wore what color of coat, and who bought what.

The four people, wearing different colors of coats, were sitting two by two, facing each other. Two of them sat on the aisle side and the other two was on the window side. They bought beer, milk, coffee and peanuts.

The Chinese sat on the right hand side of the one who bought peanuts.

The one who wore a green coat bought milk.

The one who wore a red coat was sitting on the left hand side of the American.

The one who was sitting on the opposite side of the Russian bought coffee.

The Arabic wore a white coat.

The Chinese looked out the window turning his face to the right.

Tip

suspect → 용의자

possible suspects → 용의자일 가능성이 있는 사람들

네 명의 사람, 네가지 색깔의 옷, 네 가지의 음식을 짝짓는 문제입니다. 두 명은 창가 쪽, 두 명은 통로 쪽에 앉았고, 이 네 사람이 마주보고 있습니다. 이런 경우를 그림으로 나타내보세요.

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