EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
1 언어의 준규칙성
We are ____ to speak and comprehend 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 demands ____ 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 ____ “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with the source words.
The product of these conflicting pressures is ____
These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if ____ 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.”
2 훌륭한 광고의 본질
We are able to speak and comprehend ____ with great skill despite its quasiregularity — 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 speakers produce forms that deviate from standard patterns and listeners must be able ____ comprehend them.
Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which partially overlap with ____ source words.
The product of ____ 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 ____ 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, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun or chemical reactions, ____ organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.
What is unusual about our species ____ that we’ve been able to use more and more energy without having to evolve into a different species.
We’ve achieved this through a combination ____ social 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 ____ station.
In other ____ we change our tools rather than our bodies.
Fire and spears did the trick ____ hundreds of thousands of years, until we devised the domestication of our food sources.
The ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ magazine industry is in serious decline as large digital intermediaries take over the majority 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 majority of the ____ (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 able to provide content of relevance ____ them.
In short, a profit-driven response means media ____ ever more unsustainable.
5 인간이 개입한 자연환경
The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have had to ____ — or in many cases 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 ____ have been created with their own ecosystems.
The ____ 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 plants otherwise found ____ the coast.
Roads provide abundant road-kill for ____
These may be poor substitutes for what they replace, but ____ are habitats that can add more if properly managed.
The natural environment we ____ 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, ____ parents, the mass media, and advertisers.
Some of these agents of ____ 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 are trying to use you as a tool to achieve ____ 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 problems you don’t have and make worse the problems you ____ 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 ways that would make ____ happier.
Therefore, it is important that you periodically examine the code that has been programmed ____ your mind.