과천외고 영어 오답 점검: former·latter의 두 대상을 끝까지 고정하기 실전문제

The display contained a silver compass and a wooden sundial. The former had belonged to a sailor; the latter had been made for a school garden. Neither instrument was currently in use.

Visitors could choose a guided walk or an independent audio tour. The former started at noon and followed a fixed route; the latter could begin at any time but did not include the upper gallery. A visitor chose the latter because she arrived after noon. She still needed a separate ticket to enter the upper gallery.

The curator compared repairing the original frame with replacing it. The latter would require a new mounting system. She then compared the repairer's estimate with the supplier's estimate. The latter was lower, but it excluded installation. She postponed a decision until installation costs could be checked.

Two plans were discussed: keeping the present archive room and moving the collection to a larger room. The former required fewer shelves, while the latter offered more space but needed new lighting. The director next compared the cost of installing that lighting with the cost of repairing the present room's windows. The former was initially higher. A grant later covered half the lighting cost, making the remaining lighting expense lower than the window-repair expense. This reversal did not change which plan 'the latter' referred to in the original comparison. No estimate of the cost of physically moving the collection was available.