2026 수능완성 영어 2강 변형

Around the turn of the twentieth century, anthropologists trained in the natural sciences began to reimagine what a science of humanity should look like and how social scientists ought to go ____ studying cultural groups.

____ of those anthropologists insisted that one should at least spend significant time actually observing and talking to the people studied.

____ ethnographers such as Franz Boas and Alfred Cort Haddon typically traveled to the remote locations where the people in question lived and spent a few weeks to a few months there.

They sought out a local Western host who was familiar with the people and the area (such as a ____ official, missionary, or businessman) and found accommodations through them.

____ they did at times venture into the community without a guide, they generally did not spend significant time with the local people.

Thus, their observations were ____ conducted from their verandas.

Our distant ancestors would be puzzled by the ____ exercise has become commercialized, industrialized, and, above all, medicalized.

Although we sometimes exercise for ____ millions of people today pay to exercise to manage their weight, prevent disease, and delay aging and death.

Exercise is big business. Walking, jogging, and many other ____ of exercise are inherently free, but giant multinational companies persuade us to spend lots of money to work out in special clothes, with special equipment, and in special places like fitness clubs.

We also pay money to watch other people exercise, and a handful of us even pay for the privilege of suffering through marathons, ultramarathons, ____ and other extreme or potentially dangerous sporting events. For a few thousand dollars, you, too, can run 150 miles across the Sahara Desert.

But more than anything else, exercise has become a ____ of anxiety and confusion because while everyone knows that exercise is good for their health, the majority of us struggle to exercise enough, safely, or enjoyably. We are exercised about exercise.

People most often speak ____ the city or the suburban town they live in but rarely about the region.

Yet the best way to ____ urban growth is to appreciate that it is regional in scale.

We might say that we are from Arlington Heights, but we work, shop, attend schools, go to churches, synagogues, or mosques, and pursue recreation in an increasing variety of ____ all within an expanding metropolitan area.

Urban texts in the past have addressed this issue, but ____ do not take it to heart as the central organizing principle of the discussion.

In Eric Bogosian’s brilliant film Suburbia, actress ____ Posey portrays an L.A. record promoter on tour who grew up in the affluent Southern California suburbs.

When asked by a group of small-town teenagers where she is ____ she replies, “I come from an area.”

We understand that the words city and suburb fail to connect with the more contemporary reality ____ daily life.

Throughout your life, you’re going to cross paths with a lot of ____ eager to goad you into conflict or confrontation.

There will be times when, despite your best efforts, you may find yourself ____ baited into an argument, pulled into a game, or sucked into an agenda.

And since we can’t always avoid these hot zones, ____ need to have strategies in place to handle them.

How can we manage those specific situations: the daily annoyances and problems that ____ at work, school, or with our family and friends?

Despite Newton’s theory, not every action needs a reaction. Just because ____ is demanding your attention doesn’t mean you have to give it, especially if that engagement seems emotionally charged.

When you decide not ____ dignify an irrational communication with a response, it’s about preserving your personal dignity and mental clarity.

Just because someone throws the ball ____ mean you have to catch it.

The ____ green fire in the eyes of a dying old wolf reflected something known only to her and the mountain.

The hunter, Aldo Leopold, sensed that his ____ understanding, fewer wolves meant more deer, did not have the wisdom of the wolf and the mountain.

In the wolf’s eyes, Leopold saw the need to think differently — that human actions and values should acknowledge the interdependence of ____ the environment and humans.

Good behaviour, he realised, was that which sustained ____ integrity, stability and beauty of the land.

Leopold was ____ to manage the forest, principally for recreational deer hunters, so he set about killing the deer’s predators, the wolf and the mountain lion.

However, the deer population, no longer ____ in check by predators (including human hunters), exploded, resulting in severe damage to the forest and the land.

As his interests grew to include conservation and ecology, Leopold concluded that the forest feared the deer more ____ the wolf.

As ‘only the mountain has lived long ____ to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf’ we should ‘think like a mountain.’

Dealing with chronic ____ that is maladaptive can push us to our limits.

When this happens, our brain and body turn on ____ ‘safe mode’ of living, or ‘low-power mode’.

Just like when the battery on your phone is running low, low-power mode saves energy for the most basic functions ____ lengthens battery life.

When you’re in this mode of living, your brain reverts to mental heuristics, those shortcuts you’re so badly trying to avoid, meaning you ____ old habits you’re trying to shake.

Decision-making is impaired and your brain will take the route more ____

Why would ____ run down a dirt path if you can just drive on the motorway when you’re exhausted?

When we’re living like this, the brain cannot prioritize making habitual and ____ changes.

The hardware that ____ your brain is working hard to operate and it cannot make any software updates without crashing.