2026수특 영어독해연습 6강 변형문제 (7~12번)

Conflict is at the very heart of people-work, ____ for professionals such as social workers, police and probation officers, who are often required to balance individual rights and freedoms against risks and harm to others.

The very act of undertaking a risk assessment on an individual or family carries with it the likelihood of decisions being taken with which some of the people involved may violently ____.

To ____ a child ‘at risk’ from a family to a place of safety, or to insist that someone in mental distress go into hospital for treatment, is to be involved in conflict.

Within a multi-disciplinary hospital team, there could also be conflicting approaches to how to work most effectively with, or treat, a particular individual or ____.

Most people-workers and healthcare workers can also give examples of times when they have had to deal with ____, distressed or disappointed people whose response has often provoked high levels of conflict.

To ____ appropriate communication skills for dealing with conflict is, therefore, essential.

Drinking bypasses ____ of our natural food control system.

Just think how easy it is to drink a large glass of apple juice, ____ you wouldn’t sit down and eat eight apples in one sitting — after the second one, the control system would step in and say you have had enough.

The whole apple contains fibre, which slows the release of the apple’s ____ and, in doing so, balances the effect of eating it on our energy.

Without the fibre in the juice, the sugar sends us on a rollercoaster of ____ cycles, starting with a boost and ending in a crash.

The crash may be just at the point when you are asked to stand up and present your ideas or you need to kick off that tricky task on your ____ list.

It’s just not worth it. Sugary caffeine drinks have a similar, if not more profound, effect, yet large coffee shop chains take great delight in selling us expensive, iced or cream-topped drinks that are equivalent to an extra meal, but will simply not register as one — starting a blood ____ crash cycle all over again.

____ are a lot of ways for an ad to go wrong.

But its odds for success are increased by starting out with a smart, focused ____.

With such focus, the ad is able to deliver ____ singular message on the many levels in which advertising communicates.

It bores down to make ____ point rather than making a big mess of itself.

The chance for the reader to “____ it” increases tremendously.

The flip side is that an ____ strategy leads to ads that must deliver many different points all at the same time.

This is ____ effective. Here’s an analogy: Try throwing a dozen balls at someone all at once.

It’s impossible to catch a single one. In fact, the impulse is to give up, shield your face, and try not to get ____. Absolute chaos.

But ____ a single ball directly at the target and chances are, he or she will make the catch.

That’s the difference between an ineffective ad with a fuzzy ____ and an effective ad with a focused strategy.

We are all able to think of words ____ have changed their meanings, or acquired additional meanings, in our own lifetimes, such as the changes in the use of words like chip, grass, joint and hardware.

This demonstrates how words are mere labels for ____ of meanings.

If these constructs have a different make-up from ____ person to another, the transitivity of communication between them is not going to be complete or accurate.

For those who are learning English as an additional language, apprehension of English forms and structures, and their meanings may pose difficulties, or even may be tinged with ____ of meaning from the characteristics owned by the native tongue.

Gradually, with full fluency and the commerce of using the ____, commonality of understanding will be generally achieved.

However, it is important for those ____ children at early stages of the acquisition of English in our schools to attend to building the understanding of meanings behind the labels of the words and phrases being taught.

Many of us are prone to wanting instant gratification: constantly buying new clothes to be ‘trendy’, wanting the ____ thing to ‘keep up’ or seeking immediate results or pleasure.

Even though choosing something now may feel good in the moment, ____ a longer-term view and developing self-discipline can result in bigger and better rewards in the future.

Delayed gratification is our ability to resist these temptations of instant ____, allowing us to stay focused on our long-term goals.

It involves budgeting and spending mindfully, as well as developing discipline and ____ to avoid impulse spending and decision making.

Think ____ instant vs delayed gratification when you are developing your own financial goals.

Consider whether your goals are focused on ____ gains or designed to look forward to a bigger picture.

Uncertainty about what tool or procedure to ____, and the risk that results are not what they appear to be, are problems common to all the scientific disciplines.

The development of new tools allows scientists to answer questions they could not answer in the past, and the answers to those questions will lead to ____ questions, and so on.

Therefore, new technologies and ____ are crucial to the progress of science.

At the same time, other scientists unfamiliar with a new tool may ____ skepticism and call for others to replicate the experiments.

Because this skepticism often comes to us in the form of sound bites, and because uncertainty about experimental tools is an aspect of science that is not familiar to most people, even people with a bachelor’s degree in science, the skepticism may seem like ____.

Waffling is ____ when you are trying to make decisions on the basis of the scientific information that comes your way.

____, if a new technique is the source of the uncertainty, time and future experiments will confirm or disconfirm its usefulness and clear up uncertainty.