2026수특 영어독해연습 6강 변형문제 (7~12번)

Conflict is at the very heart of people-work, especially for professionals such as social workers, police and ____ 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 into hospital for treatment, is ____ be involved in conflict.

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

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

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

Drinking bypasses lots of our natural ____ 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 ____ in and say you have had enough.

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

Without ____ fibre in the juice, the sugar sends us on a rollercoaster of energy 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 to-do ____

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 ____ 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.

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

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

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

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

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

The flip side is that an unfocused strategy leads to ads that must deliver ____ 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 a single ____ 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 strategy and an effective ad with a focused ____

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

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

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

Gradually, with full fluency and the ____ 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 ____ to building the understanding of meanings behind the labels of the words and phrases being taught.

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

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

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

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

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

____ whether your goals 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 ____ they appear to be, are problems common to 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 and procedures are crucial ____ the progress of science.

At the same time, other scientists unfamiliar ____ 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 ____ 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.

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

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