EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
We are able to speak and comprehend ____ with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic ____ than arbitrary.
However, 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 ____ them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source ____.
The product of these conflicting pressures is ____.
These patterns ____ 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 ____ 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 comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — ____, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic rather ____ arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require ____ 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,” ____ partially overlap with the source words.
The product of these conflicting ____ is quasiregularity.
These ____ 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 ____ 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 less, ____ 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 ____ our species is that we’ve been able 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 ____ to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we can share information to design a warhead or a power station.
In ____ words, we change our tools rather than our bodies.
Fire and spears did the ____ for hundreds of thousands of years, until we devised the domestication of our food sources.
The next big shift ____ 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 ____.
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions across the globe are facing multiple ____: 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 ____ of advertising revenue.
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 ____ 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 communities they serve and no longer being ____ to provide content of relevance to them.
In short, a profit-driven response means media become ever more ____.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have had to adapt — or in many ____ die out.
Ancient woodland exists only in ____ pieces in Britain now.
Many of these ____ are enclosed in nature reserves and national parks.
They need ____ protection. New habitats have been created with their own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the landscape and the ____ 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 plants otherwise found along the ____.
____ provide abundant road-kill for scavengers.
These may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats that can add ____ if properly managed.
The natural environment we may seek to ____ is the natural environment we have in part created.
6 마음을 프로그램하는 주체들
For most of us, our minds ____ been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, our parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming ____ 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 are trying to ____ you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very different from your own goals.
When this occurs, the programming makes you ____ 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 ____ 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 ways that would make you happier.
Therefore, it is important that you periodically examine the code that has been ____ into your mind.