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 be systematic rather than ____.
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 ____ words.
The product of these ____ pressures is 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, who often exhibit “stress ____.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to ____ and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, because of it.
Communication requires shared knowledge, and so languages ____ be systematic rather than arbitrary.
However, the demands of comprehending and producing ____ 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, ____ 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.
Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second language, who often exhibit “stress ____.”
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 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 ____ learning, complex culture, and technologies.
We don’t have to speciate to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we can share information to design a warhead or a power ____.
In ____ words, 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 next big shift came in the mechanisation of processes that ____ us the Industrial Revolution.
This enabled us to draw ancient deposits of organic energy ____ of the Earth and burn them.
4 전 세계 미디어 기관이 직면한 어려움
Media institutions across the globe are facing ____ 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 ____ digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.
Much of the debate about the sustainability of the news industry circulates around debates relating to this ‘broken ____ model’.
Local news in particular is increasingly under ____.
In the UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer ____ by a local daily newspaper.
To ____ 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 become ever ____ 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 ____ pieces in Britain now.
Many of these remnants are ____ in nature reserves and national parks.
They ____ specific protection. New habitats have been created with their own ecosystems.
The urbanization of the ____ 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 ____ for scavengers.
These ____ be poor substitutes for what they replace, but they are habitats that can add more if properly managed.
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 ____, our parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your best ____ 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 use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very different ____ your own goals.
When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems you don’t have and ____ worse the problems you do have.
When you allow others to dominate the programming of your mind, then ____ 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 ____ periodically examine the code that has been programmed into your mind.