EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
We are able to speak and comprehend language with ____ skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must ____ systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners ____ be able to comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent ____ eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The product of these conflicting pressures is ____
These patterns can be mastered ____ extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if you’ve grown up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.
Mastering stress patterns is ____ harder for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to speak and comprehend language with great ____ despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be ____ rather than arbitrary.
____ the demands 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.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and ____ 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 ____ 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 second language, ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ this through a combination of social learning, complex culture, and technologies.
We don’t have to speciate to gain the claws of an allosaurus; ____ can share information to design a warhead or a power station.
In other words, ____ change our tools rather than our bodies.
Fire and spears did the trick for hundreds of ____ of years, until we devised the domestication of our food sources.
The next big shift came in the mechanisation ____ processes that gave us the Industrial Revolution.
This enabled us to draw ancient deposits ____ organic energy out of the Earth and burn them.
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions across the globe are facing multiple crises: of funding, trust, representation, accountability and ____
In many of the countries that make up capitalism’s core, the newspaper and magazine industry is in serious ____ as large digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.
Much of the debate about the sustainability of the news industry circulates around debates ____ to this ‘broken business model’.
Local news in particular is increasingly under ____
In the UK, ____ majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer served by a local daily newspaper.
To retain high levels of profitability, media corporations have closed or merged titles and cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the ____ they serve and no longer being able to provide content of relevance to them.
In ____ a profit-driven response means media become ever more unsustainable.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that ____ ecosystems have had to adapt — or in many cases die out.
Ancient woodland exists only in small pieces in ____ now.
____ of these remnants are enclosed in nature reserves and national parks.
They need specific protection. New habitats have been created with ____ own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the creation of road and ____ corridors have given us the garden habitats that many species thrive in.
Motorway roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found along ____ coast.
____ provide abundant road-kill for scavengers.
____ may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats that can add more if properly managed.
The natural environment we may seek ____ 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 parents, the mass media, ____ advertisers.
____ 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 life better.
Other agents of programming ____ trying 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 ____ 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 your mind runs on automatic pilot, you end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those ____ rather than behaving in ways that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that ____ periodically examine the code that has been programmed into your mind.