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 ____ to go about studying cultural groups.

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

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

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

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

Thus, their observations were primarily ____ from their verandas.

Our ____ ancestors 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 pay to exercise to ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ marathons, ultramarathons, triathlons, 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 source of anxiety and confusion because while everyone knows that exercise is ____ 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 ____ way to understand 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, ____ within an expanding metropolitan area.

Urban texts in the past ____ 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 ____, actress Parker 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 from, she replies, “I come ____ 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.

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

And since we can’t ____ avoid these hot zones, we 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 ____ theory, not every action needs a reaction. Just because someone is demanding your attention doesn’t mean you have to give it, especially if that engagement seems emotionally charged.

When you ____ not to dignify 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 ____ to catch it.

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

The hunter, Aldo Leopold, sensed that his own understanding, fewer wolves meant ____ 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 ____ 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 about ____ the deer’s predators, the wolf and the mountain lion.

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

As ‘only the ____ has 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 push us to our ____.

____ this happens, our brain and body turn on a ‘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 ____ and lengthens battery life.

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

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

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

When we’re ____ like 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.