English question in Korea's national college entrance exam.. can you solve it?

[taeyoungwoo]

FYI: This was a question in "Suneung" (Korean national college entrance exam) for high school seniors (age 18) who are not expected to have received any formal English education outside of the in-school curriculum that Korean public schools have.

[tokenadult]

I correctly inferred the actual phrase from the original source:

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/science-and-non-s...

[espeed]

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