2026수특 영어독해연습 6강 변형문제 (7~12번)

Conflict is at the very heart of people-work, especially for ____ 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 ____ some of the people involved may violently disagree.

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

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

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

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

____ bypasses lots of our natural food control system.

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

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

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

The crash may be ____ 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 to-do 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 ____ us expensive, iced or cream-topped drinks that are equivalent to an extra meal, but will simply not register as one — starting a blood sugar crash cycle all over again.

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

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

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

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

The chance for the reader to “get it” increases ____

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

This is not effective. Here’s an analogy: ____ 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, ____ try not to get hurt. Absolute chaos.

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

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

We are all able to think of words which have changed their meanings, or ____ 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 ____ for constructs of meanings.

If these constructs have a different make-up from one person to another, the transitivity of communication ____ 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 aspects of meaning from the characteristics owned by the ____ tongue.

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

However, it is important for those teaching children at early stages of the acquisition of English in our schools to attend to building the understanding of meanings behind the ____ 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 latest thing to ‘keep up’ or seeking immediate results ____ pleasure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because this skepticism often comes to us in the form of sound bites, and because uncertainty about experimental ____ 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.

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

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