Question 1
Begin with 서고를. Build a colloquial report in which the speaker personally inspected the archive and recalls seeing it empty: _____
Options: 서고를 직접 살펴보니 비어 있더라., 들어보니, 비었대
Arrange the Korean word-group cards to match the stated evidence path. Items 1 and 3–5 use colloquial endings; items 2 and 6–12 use analytical 하다체. Each item has exactly two unused rivals.
Question 1
Begin with 서고를. Build a colloquial report in which the speaker personally inspected the archive and recalls seeing it empty: _____
Options: 서고를 직접 살펴보니 비어 있더라., 들어보니, 비었대
Question 2
Build a report-style sentence that attributes the heavy-snow forecast only to an official Korea Meteorological Administration document: _____
Options: 내용이었대., 내린다고는, 기상청의 공식 발표는 폭설이 내린다는 내용이었다.
Question 3
Build a colloquial sentence that cites a neighboring department’s staff member and relays an earlier-heard review result with -다더라: _____
Options: 발표됐대., 발표됐더라., 옆 부서 담당자 말로는 심사 결과가 발표됐다더라.
Question 4
Build a colloquial sentence that relays an operations committee member’s explicit declarative statement that next week’s schedule changed: _____
Options: 운영위원에게 들으니 다음 주 일정이 바뀌었대., 바뀌었냬, 바뀌었겠지
Question 5
Begin with 사무실 불이. Build a colloquial sentence that uses the currently dark office as evidence for an immediate inference that the staff have gone home: _____
Options: 퇴근했나며, 퇴근했대, 사무실 불이 꺼진 걸 보니 직원들이 퇴근했나 보다.
Question 6
Begin with 비가 온다는. Build an analytical sentence that separates the inferred rain from the visible wet umbrellas that support it: _____
Options: 우산이었다더라, 우산이겠지., 비가 온다는 추론의 근거는 젖은 우산이었다.
Question 7
Begin with 해명이라는 명칭은. Build an analytical sentence showing that a reporter, not the original speaker, recategorized the statement as an explanation: _____
Options: 자칭이었다., 해명이라는 명칭은 기자의 평가가 개입한 결과였다., 사실이었다.
Question 8
Begin with 대변인은. Build a sentence that places negation inside the reported proposition while keeping the reporting act affirmative: _____
Options: 취소됐다고는, 침묵했다, 대변인은 행사가 취소되지 않았다고 말했다.
Question 9
Begin with 기록에는. Build a sentence stating only that the minutes contain no cancellation announcement, without inferring that continuation was announced: _____
Options: 열렸다고는, 기록에는 대변인이 행사가 취소됐다고 발표한 대목이 없었다., 진행한다며
Question 10
Begin with 보도국은. Build a two-layer source chain in which the newsroom relays a spokesperson’s announcement: _____
Options: 목격했다., 보도국은 대변인이 장관이 사퇴하지 않을 것이라고 발표했다고 전했다., 추론했다.
Question 11
Begin with 감사 보고서에 따르면. Build a sentence that gives a traceable source and leaves the conclusion explicitly unconfirmed: _____
Options: 확인되었다., 감사 보고서에 따르면 해당 결론은 확인되지 않았다., 입증되었다.
Question 12
Begin with 복수의 제보를 종합하면. Build an analytical sentence that presents a recurring schedule problem as known through converging reports, without claiming direct proof: _____
Options: 바뀐다고는, 복수의 제보를 종합하면 일정이 반복해서 바뀌는 것으로 알려졌다., 확정되었다.
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