2026수특 영어독해연습 6강 변형문제 (7~12번)

Conflict is at ____ very heart of people-work, especially 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 ____ 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 disagree.

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

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

Most people-workers ____ healthcare workers can also give examples of times when they have had to deal with angry, 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 lots of our natural ____ control system.

Just think ____ 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 you have had enough.

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

Without the fibre in the juice, the sugar sends us on a rollercoaster of energy cycles, starting with ____ 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 ____ 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 selling us expensive, iced or cream-topped drinks that are equivalent to an extra ____ but will simply not register as one — starting a blood sugar crash cycle all over again.

There are a ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ the reader to “get it” increases tremendously.

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

This is not effective. Here’s an analogy: Try throwing a dozen balls at ____ all at once.

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

But throw ____ single ball directly at the target and chances are, 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 acquired additional meanings, in our own lifetimes, such as the changes in the ____ of words like chip, grass, joint and hardware.

____ demonstrates how words are mere labels for constructs 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 aspects of meaning from the characteristics owned ____ the native tongue.

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

____ 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 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 latest thing to ‘keep up’ ____ seeking immediate results or pleasure.

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

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

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

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

Consider whether your goals are focused on short-term ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ new questions, and so on.

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

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

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

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

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