EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어
실전 모의고사 1회
18 도서관 무료 나눔 행사에 도서 기증
Dear Ms. Thompson, I trust this note finds ____ in good spirits.
For the past 20 years, my husband ____ I have enjoyed our weekends at Meadowbrook Public Library, where the joy of reading together has become a treasured part of our lives.
As my husband approaches retirement, we’ve decided to return to our roots in ____ Falls.
While packing for this new chapter, we’ve discovered an extensive collection or books we’ve accumulated over the ____
We would be delighted if these beloved volumes could find a new home through your ____ upcoming free book giveaway event.
It would be ____ fitting way to share the joy we’ve experienced at Meadowbrook with others in the community.
Please let us know the ____ way to coordinate this donation.
We’re deeply grateful for the wonderful experiences we’ve had at ____ library.
19 고공 줄타기 도전
Once she strapped on the safety gear, Faith climbed up and stood at the edge of the ____
Oh man, if I don’t do this right I ____ kill myself.
She ____ gripped by a nearly overwhelming fear.
Her ____ shook as she tried to walk across the narrow line — and fell.
Now she was dangling below ____ line.
It took enormous strength to climb the rope to ____ back up.
Trying a few more times, she fell again and ____ each time climbing back up to try once more to walk across the line.
The voice ____ fear kept crushing her confidence.
She told herself, ____ not cut out for this.
Gradually, though, Faith’s fear ____ into resolution.
After multiple falls wearing the ____ she knew she was safe.
Still, attached to her leash and hanging below each line, she knew she was going ____ keep trying.
She told herself that it was important to fall in order to reinforce ____ fact that she was safe.
20 학생의 학습 동기를 키우는 방법
When you start where your students are, you don’t think in terms ____ “should.”
If you want to motivate students ____ learn, first find out what currency they are spending (or what currency they value), and pay them in that currency.
From there, you can teach ____ how to find the reward in other things.
For many of our students, ____ motivation has to be developed.
It comes only after they have experienced the pleasure of doing well and know ____ rewards of success.
At the beginning, many of our students haven’t ____ consistent academic success and are not convinced that it will bring any pleasure.
In fact, academic success ____ been a source of pain for them because it has been heretofore an unachievable goal.
This is why ____ is so important to start with what motivates them and then, as they experience more success, help them transfer or become motivated by that success.
21 정보 생태계의 오염 방지
If truth is what we must ____ then we have both opportunities and responsibilities.
We have ____ to discover facts, which by virtue of being true are likely to be useful, certainly more useful than falsehoods.
And we have responsibilities not to pollute the infosphere with falsehood and ____ air.
This requires ____ form of cognitive and linguistic literacy: an awareness of how language works on the mind and in social interaction.
And it requires ____ discipline.
When we unthinkingly boost the signal of ____ misinformation, even just by “liking” a post we haven’t fact-checked, the effect is like burning fossil fuels in our cars.
As individuals, when we produce emissions, we feel that our singular contribution to ____ problem does not make a difference in the larger context.
But of course it would make a difference if only we ____ collectively.
In the same way, says ____ scholar Ilya Somin, “Widespread public ignorance is a type of pollution that infects the political system.”
22 목표 달성에 대한 과도한 압박이 초래하는 조직 위기
Ambitious business development goals impose high pressure on all employees to demonstrate personal ____ and improvement.
Companies often create a climate in which goals must ____ achieved at all costs.
Managers will not tolerate subordinates bringing ____ bad news, demanding to see only successful results.
In some organizations, ____ state of total fear of the management develops: it becomes almost impossible to admit any professional mistake without risking sanctions or punishment, including dismissal.
Some employees cannot function well under ____ pressure and, to preserve the impression of success, they falsify their achievements and embellish reality.
Hearing nothing but good news from their cowed employees, executives are under the illusion that ____ is going well.
When a crisis finally comes, it turns out that the ____ situation was being concealed to fit in with the impossible standards promoted in an organization and the demand to achieve success at any price.
23 산술 연산의 어려움이 가진 보편성
AMBITION, DISTRACTION, ____ and DERISION.
These are the playful names Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics professor better known to ____ as Lewis Carroll, gave to the four arithmetical operations.
Obviously, Carroll did not hold too many illusions about his pupils’ ____ abilities. And perhaps he was right.
While children easily acquire number ____ learning to calculate can be a challenge.
Children, and even adults, often err in the most elementary ____ calculations.
Who can say that ____ never get 7 × 9 or 8 × 7 wrong?
How many of us can mentally compute 113 – 37 or 10 – 24 in less ____ two seconds?
Calculation errors are so widespread that far from stigmatizing ignorance, they attract ____ when they are admitted publicly (“I’ve always been hopeless at math!”).
Many ____ us can almost identify with Alice’s difficulty as she attempts to calculate while traveling through Wonderland:
“Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is — oh dear! I shall ____ get to twenty at that rate!”
24 고고학의 연구 대상
Because archaeologists study material culture, ____ is easy to over-emphasize the importance of physical objects versus social aspects of culture.
Culture and worldview, however, are far removed from a list of ____ traits.
____ traits can be symptomatic of different kinds of society, but they can never be definitive: only social phenomena can define social formations.
Many archaeologists are wary of studying ____ phenomena because they are not directly observable in the archaeological record.
It is nevertheless possible to study social aspects of culture in the same way ____ natural scientists study unobservables, that is, through their material effects.
____ this is what archaeologists really do.
We do not excavate technology, subsistence, or adaption, for ____
These concepts are no less abstract than worldview, ____ all are derived from theory.
Even though we cannot observe prehistoric worldview directly, it was no less real: it guided technology, subsistence, and adaptive behavior and in many cases caused ____
26 러시아 동시 작가 Korney Chukovsky의 생애
Korney Chukovsky was born in St. ____ to a young peasant woman and her Jewish husband.
Korney Chukovsky began his career as a journalist in Odessa, where he and his mother moved while he was ____ in school.
He served as a foreign correspondent in London from 1903 to ____ having taught himself English.
Upon his return to Russia, he immersed himself in the literary scene, translating Walt Whitman and other Anglophone poets, as ____ as writing lively and penetrating essays on the leading Russian writers of the day, including the poet Aleksandr Blok, who was a personal friend.
Between 1907 and 1913, the young Chukovsky flourished as a writer ____ intellectual.
After the Russian Revolution, ____ remained in the Soviet Union and concentrated on translation and children’s poetry, for which he is now best remembered. In 1962 he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.
29 정보 시각화의 발전
There are several fields of expertise found ____ the intersection of graphic design and science that are about visualizing complex information.
The main ____ of this field is to make information accessible.
There is a direct line from diagramming to ____ visualization and design.
Diagrams ____ as old as advanced human culture.
One could say we draw diagrams with ____ hands when gesturing.
However, diagrams developed to ____ ever more complex issues.
Florence Nightingale was an early user ____ diagrams to communicate statistics.
Her diagrams are an ____ example of how quantitative data is made accessible with visualization to trigger action and change.
In our times, it developed ____ a universe of advanced diagrams described by, for example, Tufte.
With the rise of the computer information, visualization crystallized ____ several streams, one based on graphic design and the other driven by scientific visualization.
Rich quantitative information that before was impossible to interpret was now visualized in a way that made it possible to identify patterns ____ phenomena in the data.
Information visualization is developing its aesthetics and as a ____ and, one might say, an art form.
30 윤리학의 성격
Ethics ____ about our thinking process.
The experience of learning about ethics can be ____ for students who expect to walk out of class armed with clear-cut answers for how to deal with different types of problems.
But in ____ such direct answers are rare in ethics. Instead, ethics is concerned with asking the right questions.
The focus is ____ the quality of the deliberative process and not on the outcome.
This can be discomforting because so much of Western culture is goal ____
We care deeply about good ____ about results, about the bottom line — often with only passing interest in how we achieve those goals or what we do to attain “success.”
But expecting ____ to provide the necessary “correct” answers usually just leads to moralizing — making broad, often unsubstantiated claims about a course of action that some will accept as reflecting their moral beliefs and others won’t.
Most ethical dilemmas don’t present any fully acceptable solutions ____ instead offer several options that are unsatisfactory in some way.
The trick is to figure out which one is most ____ as you see it and which embodies key values.