EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강
7 구전 문화의 정보 전달의 정확성
We tend to underestimate ____ effectiveness of oral cultures.
We’re all familiar with the children’s game in which a message is whispered from one ____ to another until it goes around a room.
The message invariably gets distorted — sometimes with hilarious results — when the original message and the ____ message are compared.
But this is misleading. When it is important, oral cultures can accurately ____ information across long distances and through generations.
For example, American author Alex ____ was able to discover an oral record of his ancestors in Africa, and his search is described in the 1976 book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Similarly, the Odyssey and Iliad were originally heroic oral histories of Greek culture that were only written down many centuries after they were ____
8 이로운 적응인 감정
Emotions meet the ____ of being advantageous adaptations.
Take, for example, two ____ squaring off in a fight over food.
As they prepare to lock horns, literally or figuratively, their intense feelings prompt a ____ of bodily reactions.
____ an animal’s back arches and its hair stands on end, it appears larger and stronger.
When it bares its teeth, frowns its brows, ____ fierce noises, or displays its horns, it signals to the other animal that fighting such a strong adversary may not be worth it.
These signals — displays of aggression — directly improve the chances that the other animal will withdraw, thus preventing violence and avoiding ____ injury or death.
Sending these signals benefits the species, as ____ the ability to interpret these messages. It’s a win-win.
9 이탈리아의 문화적 정체성과 생활 방식의 변화
With the construction and furnishing of interior space from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Italians created a world in which they could develop a different style of life and in which a new culture came to ____ defined.
This is why so much was spent on objects, why so many new kinds of objects came into existence, why the arts flourished ____ in the domestic world as they had earlier in the ecclesiastical world.
Consumption was a ____ force to construct a cultural identity.
In inventing all kinds of new furnishings ranging from pottery to paintings, in elaborating their forms, in refining their production, and in organizing them into new spatial arrangements within their homes, Italians discovered new values and pleasures for themselves, reordered their lives with new standards of comportment, communicated something about themselves to others — in short, generated ____ and in the process created identities for themselves.
In this cultural development there was a dynamic for change that resulted from the interaction between people and physical ____
10 개척 정착민에게 지급된 자영 농지의 분배 방식
The distribution of US farm homesteads granted to pioneer settlers is a classic ____ of artificial boundaries not matching natural boundaries.
Properties were allocated based on surveys with regular north-south and east-west boundaries, regardless of the lay ____ the land.
This meant ____ of homesteads were unrelated to boundaries of watersheds. Some homesteads were high and dry.
Others were lower and wetter, but subject ____ flooding.
Downstream landowners could not control erosion and runoff ____ upstream properties.
Thus, an uphill landowner’s effects on the environment could harm another ____ downhill, but the lower landowner had no options.
These nineteenth-century decisions have consequences to this ____
For example, one of the most challenging problems for ____ College’s Sneed grassland restoration is erosive flash-flood runoff from poorly managed upstream properties.
11 출판 편향의 오류
Publication bias means that the size of an effect could be overstated for ____ behavioral phenomena reported in the peer-reviewed literature.
For example, suppose you read a few studies showing that a new behavioral therapy for depression significantly ____ symptoms of depression in patients.
If a researcher ____ the effectiveness of this same behavioral therapy and finds no effect, it is likely that no peer-reviewed journal will accept the manuscript, so you will never find it or read about it.
It is therefore possible that the effectiveness of ____ therapy is overstated because studies failing to show an effect are not included in the published peer-reviewed literature.
Researchers stated that ____ progress is made by trusting the bulk of current knowledge,” and the publication bias compromises this trust.
Keep in mind that while positive results reported in the peer-reviewed literature ____ certainly be trusted, also take caution in knowing that many negative results may not be included in your search.
12 경제에서의 긍정적인 피드백 함정
Relying on economic growth to overcome economic problems ____ a positive feedback pitfall.
Governments encourage increased economic production as a means of lifting the poor out of poverty and satisfying the demands of the rich, but the appeal of the resulting new products creates new ____ that get satisfied with new income generated from yet more production.
In other words, people work to earn money to ____ wants (and of course needs), but their effort results in production of goods, including new innovations, that, when marketed, increase others’ desires.
Those others then work to ____ their new wants, producing yet more goods marketed to others, and so on in a positive feedback that grinds away at the planet’s stock of resources and generates more waste and new types of wastes whose consequences we only partially understand.
Reflecting on this circumstance, the ____ gorilla Ishmael in Daniel Quinn’s novel of the same name describes modern humans as prisoners of a mother culture, employed in a prison industry — consuming the world.