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[41～42] 다음 글을 읽고, 물음에 답하시오.

Many people assume that reading more books automatically makes a reader stronger, yet the evidence suggests that the way a text is read matters as much as how many pages are turned. When readers pause to ask why a character acts as she does, or how one event leads to another, they build a mental model of the passage rather than a list of isolated facts. This model allows them to predict what comes next, to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words from context, and to recognize the writer's purpose even when it is never stated directly.

Researchers have observed that students who practice this kind of attentive reading from an early age tend to process long and complex passages with greater speed and accuracy later on. The reason is not that they read faster word by word. Rather, they know where meaning is likely to be found: in the topic sentence that frames a paragraph, in the contrast signaled by a single conjunction, in the example that quietly overturns an earlier claim. Readers without this sense of structure often treat every sentence as equally important, and so they tire quickly and lose the thread of the argument.

In other words, fluency in reading is less a matter of speed than of organization. A reader who understands how ideas are arranged can move through a dense argument without being overwhelmed, because each new sentence finds a place in a framework that already exists. Such a framework cannot be memorized the night before an examination; it is built slowly, one book at a time, through years of reading texts that are long enough to require it. The (a) habit of asking questions while reading therefore becomes a (b) resource that no shortcut can replace.

41. 윗글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은?

1. ① Why Speed Reading Fails in Exams
2. ② Reading Structure: The Hidden Key to Fluency
3. ③ How to Memorize Long Passages Quickly
4. ④ The Limits of Reading Many Books
5. ⑤ Questions That Slow Readers Down

42. 밑줄 친 (a)～(e) 중에서 문맥상 낱말의 쓰임이 적절하지 않은 것은? [3점]