2026수특 영독연 2강 변형문제 (1~6번)

We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its ____ — indeed, because of it.

Communication requires ____ knowledge, and so languages must be systematic rather than arbitrary.

However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because ____ produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.

Many shortcuts ____ promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.

The product of these conflicting pressures ____ quasiregularity.

These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve ____ up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.

Mastering stress patterns ____ much harder for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”

We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of ____

Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic ____ than arbitrary.

However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because ____ 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 overlap with the ____ words.

The product of ____ conflicting pressures is quasiregularity.

____ patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.

Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a ____ language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”

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 organisms that take energy from those ____ 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 ____ 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 words, we change our tools rather than ____ bodies.

Fire and spears did the trick for hundreds of thousands of years, until we devised the domestication of our food ____

____ next 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 Earth and burn ____

Media institutions across the globe are facing multiple crises: ____ funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.

In many of ____ 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 revenue.

Much of the debate about the sustainability of the news industry circulates around ____ relating to this ‘broken business model’.

Local news in particular is increasingly under ____

In the UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer served by a local daily ____

____ 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 able to provide content of relevance to them.

In short, a profit-driven response means media ____ ever more unsustainable.

The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have had to adapt — or in many ____ die out.

Ancient ____ exists only in small pieces in Britain now.

Many of these ____ are enclosed in nature reserves and national parks.

They need specific protection. New habitats ____ been created with their own ecosystems.

____ urbanization of the landscape and the creation of road and railway corridors have given us the garden habitats that many species thrive in.

Motorway roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving ____ otherwise found along the coast.

Roads provide abundant road-kill ____ scavengers.

These may be poor ____ for what 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 ____ in part created.

For most of us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, our parents, the mass media, and ____

Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your best interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and help ____ overcome your troublesome weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and make your life better.

Other agents of programming are trying to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very ____ from your own goals.

When this occurs, ____ programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems 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 ____ mind 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 ____ code that has been programmed into your mind.