EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
We are able to ____ and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so ____ must be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and ____ language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially ____ with the source words.
The product of ____ conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and become a ____ reader.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second language, who often ____ “stress deafness.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to ____ and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication ____ shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from ____ patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially ____ with the source words.
The ____ of these conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and ____ a fluent reader.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second ____, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
3 지구의 에너지 사용에 대한 인간의 진화
Life on our planet can be arranged, more or less, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun or chemical reactions, and ____ that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.
What is unusual about our species is that we’ve been able to use more and more ____ without having to evolve into a different species.
We’ve ____ this through a combination of social learning, complex culture, and technologies.
We don’t have to speciate to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we can share information to ____ a warhead or a power station.
In other ____, we change our tools rather than our bodies.
Fire and spears ____ the trick for hundreds of thousands of years, until we devised the domestication of our food sources.
The ____ big shift came in the mechanisation of processes that gave us the Industrial Revolution.
This enabled us to draw ancient deposits of organic energy out of the ____ and burn them.
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions ____ the globe are facing multiple crises: of funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.
In many of the ____ that make up capitalism’s core, the newspaper and magazine industry is in serious decline as large digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.
Much of the debate ____ the sustainability of the news industry circulates around debates relating to this ‘broken business model’.
____ news in particular is increasingly under threat.
In the UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer ____ by a local daily newspaper.
To retain ____ levels of profitability, media corporations have closed or merged titles and cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the communities they serve and no longer being able to provide content of relevance to them.
In short, a profit-driven response means media become ____ more unsustainable.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in ____ means that the ecosystems have had to adapt — or in many cases die out.
Ancient woodland exists only in small pieces in Britain ____.
Many of these remnants are enclosed in ____ reserves and national parks.
They need specific protection. New habitats have ____ created with their own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the creation of ____ and railway corridors have given us the garden habitats that many species thrive in.
____ roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found along the coast.
Roads provide abundant ____ for scavengers.
These may be poor substitutes for ____ they replace, but they are habitats that can add more if properly managed.
The natural environment we may seek to conserve is the natural environment we have in ____ created.
6 마음을 프로그램하는 주체들
For ____ of us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, our parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your best interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and help you overcome your troublesome weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and make your ____ better.
Other agents of programming are trying to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very different from your own ____.
When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems you don’t have and make worse the problems you do ____.
When you allow others to dominate the programming of your mind, then when your ____ runs on automatic pilot, you end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that you periodically examine the code that has ____ programmed into your mind.