2026 수능완성 영어 2강 변형

Around the turn of the ____ 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 about studying cultural groups.

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

Early ethnographers such as Franz Boas and Alfred Cort Haddon typically traveled to the remote locations where the people in ____ 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 colonial official, missionary, or businessman) and ____ accommodations through them.

Although they did at times venture into the community without a guide, they generally did ____ spend significant time with the local people.

Thus, their observations were primarily conducted ____ their verandas.

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

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

Exercise is big business. Walking, jogging, and many other forms 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 ____ 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, triathlons, and other extreme or potentially dangerous sporting events. For a few thousand dollars, you, ____, can run 150 miles across the Sahara Desert.

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

People ____ often speak about 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 locations, all within an ____ metropolitan area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just because someone throws the ball doesn’t mean you have to ____ it.

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

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

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

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

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

However, the deer population, no longer held in check by predators (____ 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 ____ feared the deer more than the wolf.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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