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 languages must be ____ 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.
____ shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The ____ of these conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.
These patterns can be mastered with ____ practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.
____ stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to speak and ____ language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic ____ than arbitrary.
However, the ____ of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.
____ shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap 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 become a fluent ____.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people ____ English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
3 지구의 에너지 사용에 대한 인간의 진화
Life on our planet can be arranged, more or ____, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun or chemical reactions, and organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.
What is unusual about our species is that we’ve been ____ to use more and more energy without having to evolve into a different species.
We’ve achieved this through a combination of social learning, complex ____, and technologies.
We don’t have to ____ to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we can share information to design a warhead or a power station.
In other words, we change our ____ 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 next ____ shift came in the mechanisation of processes that gave us the Industrial Revolution.
This ____ us to draw ancient deposits of organic energy out of the Earth and burn them.
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media ____ across the globe are facing multiple crises: of funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.
In many of the countries 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 ____.
Much of the debate about the ____ of the news industry circulates around debates relating to this ‘broken business model’.
Local ____ in particular is increasingly under threat.
In the UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer served by a local daily ____.
To retain high 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 ____ to provide content of relevance to them.
In short, a profit-driven response ____ media become ever more unsustainable.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have had to adapt — or in many cases ____ out.
Ancient woodland exists only in small ____ in Britain now.
Many of these remnants are enclosed in nature ____ and national parks.
They ____ specific protection. New habitats have been created with their own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the creation of road and railway corridors have given us the garden habitats that many ____ thrive in.
____ roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found along the coast.
Roads provide ____ road-kill for scavengers.
These may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats that can add more if properly ____.
The natural ____ we may seek to conserve is the natural environment we have in part created.
6 마음을 프로그램하는 주체들
For most of us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, our ____, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your ____ 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 life better.
Other agents of programming are ____ to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very different from your own goals.
When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve ____ you don’t have and make worse the problems you do have.
When you allow others to dominate the programming of your mind, then when your mind runs on automatic pilot, you end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ____ that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that you periodically examine the code that has been programmed ____ your mind.