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1. Her car’s engine had started making noises and kept losing power that morning, and she had heard that replacing an engine could be very expensive. (2023년 시행 6월 모평 19번)
2. Belief that the wine is more expensive turns on the neurons in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with pleasure feelings. (2018년 시행 9월 모평 22번)
3. But reprocessing has proved expensive and can exacerbate the problem of disposal rather than assisting it. (2018년 시행 9월 모평 24번)
4. Experts’ tastes did move in the proper direction: they favored finer, more expensive wines. (2018년 시행 9월 모평 22번)
5. It is common to find that people prefer the taste of looser rolled black teas over more expensive or more highly graded black teas that have been tightly rolled. (2017년 시행 9월 모평 35번)