EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어 1강
1강 필자의 주장 글의 요지
기출 인간의 문화적 도구인 도덕성
Even though there is good reason to consider a dog a sentient being capable of making choices and plans — so that we might suppose ____ could have conceived of acting otherwise’ — we’re unlikely to think it is wicked and immoral for attacking a child.
Moral responsibility is not some universal concept like entropy or temperature ____ something that applies equally, and can be measured similarly, everywhere in the cosmos.
It is a notion developed specifically for human ____ no more or less than languages are.
While sentience and volition are aspects of mind and agency, morals are cultural tools developed ____ influence social behaviour: to cultivate the desirable and discourage the harmful.
____ are learnt, not given at birth. It’s possible, indeed likely, that we are born with a predisposition to cooperate with others — but only within human society do we come to understand this as moral behaviour.
1 영화의 장르 관습
Conventions are frequently used stylistic techniques or narrative devices typical of (but ____ necessarily unique to) particular genre traditions.
Movies make use ____ many conventions.
Bits of dialogue, musical figures, physical action, and patterns of mise-en-scène are all aspects of movies that, repeated from film to film, ____ established as conventions.
In a ____ musical, for example, narrative progression usually halts for the production numbers as characters break into song and dance accompanied by music that seems suddenly to materialize from nowhere.
Where we might find such moments out of place in, say, a gangster film or a horror ____ we allow for this artifice in film musicals.
According to Bordwell, Staiger, ____ Thompson, each genre creates its own rules, and the spectator judges any given element in the light of its appropriateness to genre conventions.
In other words, conventions function as an implied agreement between ____ and consumers to expect certain techniques and devices in certain contexts.
Consumers, thus, are crucial to the development of genres ____ time.
2 자기 연민의 필요성
Can ____ tenderly look at the landscape of your life and lovingly explore its pits and grooves, its highs and lows, without releasing the harsh, hateful, and truly mean voice that lives inside your head?
You know that voice all too well. It’s the tape that plays over and ____ that you barely notice but that rules your universe.
You are ____ this, too that, not enough this, not enough that.
Can you quiet that voice and find the sweet, loving part of you that has been there for all of your friends, ____ the light in the midst of their most devastating failures and worst mistakes?
Can ____ just this once be that for yourself?
The process of reinventing yourself and revisioning your life requires not only courage but a deep sense of compassion we don’t ordinarily shine on ____
It’s brave to look at what you’ve created in every area of your life, and the compassion keeps you from wanting to ____ the painful parts.
It’s the reckoning that ____ the dream.
And it’s a necessary part of ____ process that can’t be shortchanged.
3 성공과 행복에 관한 그릇된 인식
If success and happiness were more aligned with what you do than who you are being, then it follows that the more work you do and the faster you do it, the more ‘success’ you will achieve and the faster you will accomplish ____
But ____ simply isn’t what happens.
Burnout, stress, anxiety, and mental health issues are worse in Western society ____ previous decades, not better.
Despite advances in technology, despite how hard we work, despite the increasing number of hours and overtime we are doing, there is ample research to show that our collective ____ of wellbeing is diminishing, not increasing.
The world is not a happy ____ despite all our efforts to the contrary.
To follow society’s mantra of “Do more to be more!”, then, is no different from following the words of false prophets: you risk submitting yourself to the power of others and enslaving ____ to their whims and desires.
Your life ____ no longer your own.
4 자신의 생각과 다른 관점의 수용
Just because you have ____ plan doesn’t mean that you can always stick to it.
Nevertheless, you still ____ to have one! You’ll be talking with real people who don’t necessarily have the same perspective as you.
They will have their own agendas, questions that are off-the-wall to you (but fascinating to them), ____ confusions, and various personal concerns.
They will have their ____ funds of knowledge.
____ it’s important that you listen for all of these things and respond to them in a genuine way.
____ don’t want your activity to be a performance where the public’s contributions are treated like some random humming that ought to be ignored;
these contributions are critical to the conversation too, and you will need to let your conversational partners ____ steer it.
So no matter what your plan was when you started, you will need ____ be flexible and open to different directions once you’re actually interacting with people.
5 타인의 감정 파악에 도움을 줄 수 있는 소설 읽기
Fiction not only satiates theory of ____ but also instructs it.
People who ____ more fiction exhibit enhanced social reasoning, from identifying others’ emotions, to adopting their perspective, to empathizing with their situation.
Some of the most compelling evidence ____ this relationship comes from a test called “Reading the Mind in the Eyes.”
Determining what people are thinking just by looking ____ their eyes can be highly challenging.
____ not too difficult to tell whether they are happy or sad, but could you tell if they were suspicious or indecisive? Accusing or irritated?
Such differences are detectable, but not ____ is skilled at detecting them.
People who read a lot of fiction turn out to be ____ skilled.
They can distinguish romantic signals ____ gratitude or caution from boredom just from the eyes.
Contemplating ____ in fiction appears to improve the detection of these emotions in real life, even though we never see anyone’s eyes when reading.