EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어
3강 글의 주제
기출 평범한 것을 통한 특이한 것의 이해
It is much more ____ to be surprised by unusual phenomena like eclipses than ordinary phenomena like falling bodies or the succession of night into day and day into night.
Many cultures invented gods to explain these eclipses that shocked, frightened, or surprised them; but very few imagined a god of falling bodies — to which they were so accustomed that they did ____ even notice them.
But the reason for eclipses is ultimately the same as that of the succession of night and day: the movement of celestial bodies, which itself is based on the Newtonian law of attraction and how it explains why things fall when we ____ them go.
For the physicist, understanding the ordinary, the habitual, and the frequent thus allows us to ____ for the frightening and the singular.
As such, it was thus necessary to ____ “Why do things fall?” and to have Newton’s response to understand a broad range of much more bizarre phenomena occurring at every level of the universe.
1 소비의 디지털화
Social media, mobile Internet, smartphones, ____ codes, tablets, mobile apps, virtual fashion and digital shopping windows replace and merge with previous consumption spheres.
Consumer activities such as purchasing, comparing and examining ____ are increasingly handled through the Internet and mobile digital devices; consumers organize and spread service and product information on social media sites, blogs and forums; and money is spent increasingly on digital items.
Furthermore, product searches, ____ making and the relationships with physical stores are becoming more intimately dependent on smartphones, tablets and other digital devices.
Growing numbers of available recommendation systems and online review platforms have also assumed a ____ role in consumption practices.
In their use ____ co-production of such recommendation systems for books, movies, restaurants, wines, music, electronics, musical instruments and clothes, consumers are relying increasingly on algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Taken together, these examples are manifestations of the contemporary ongoing digitalization of ____ that results in the development of new cultures of consumption.
2 미국의 재정착 정책과 부족의 정치 조직 형태
When a ____ army fails to dominate a weaker enemy, the causes invariably include the unfamiliar terrain and geographical decentralization of the enemy.
But that is not the primary characteristic ____ determines the outcome.
____ U.S. policy of resettlement on reservation land can be analyzed for each of the tribes to determine how organizational style affects military success.
History ____ simplifies down to singular causes, such as political centralization, but some trends are more evident than others.
The more sedentary tribes, who relied on ____ and were geographically more centralized around fertile locations, were more quickly conquered than the nomadic plains tribes who were widely dispersed.
What distinguished the tribes who were more successful against the ____ military?
Political decentralization. Those ____ strong chieftains were more quickly settled on reservations.
The last groups ____ submit to U.S. military were the most politically decentralized, the Comanche and the Apache.
3 조직 정체성의 지나친 내면화
One of the reasons it is so hard to ____ careers — or why we change, only to end up in the same boat — is that we can so fully internalize our institutional identities, relying on them to convey our worth and accomplishments to the outside world.
Even when we can honestly admit that the external trappings of success — titles, perks, and other markers of status — don’t matter much, we ____ hide from the need for change by telling ourselves how much the company needs us.
Like Dan, who postponed vacations and overrode ____ obligations when the organization needed him, most working adults organize at least some portion of their working lives according to the principle that self-sacrifice is OK when it’s for the good of the institution.
Since basic assumptions tend to exist in interlocking clusters, what may often appear to be a work-life balance problem, or an inability to free ourselves from unrewarding or overly political working relationships, is in fact ____ inability to separate our commitment to an organization from being the organization.
4 AI 시스템 통제의 어려움
To make AI systems more human-value aligned, including more respect for privacy, governments are seeking to regulate AI inputs ____ processes.
At the input level, ____ efforts include strengthening notice and consent regimes and requiring strong data handling safeguards; at the process level, they include rights to explanations and other forms of accountability such as validation studies, bug reports, and so on.
But given how useful the outputs of AI systems can be, any desire for control over input or process can quickly lose any sense of priority or urgency for all but the most zealous of ____ advocates.
The attraction of AI outputs that are strikingly useful, ____ efficient, accurate, and reliable — contributing to their increasing capture of human time, attention, and trust — often renders attempts to exert control over the inputs or the processes of AI moot.
____ we can introduce human alignment into emergent and evolvable intelligence is a much-debated issue.
This has led cautionary experts to argue ____ while we are achieving technical progress, AI may move beyond these initial constraints imposed on it to achieve its own best goals.
5 지구 내부의 미생물
Osburn and her colleagues have shown that, contrary to long-held assumptions, ____ interior is not lifeless.
In fact, the majority of the ____ microbes — perhaps more than 90 percent — may live deep underground.
These intraterrestrial microbes tend to be quite different ____ their counterparts on the surface.
They are ancient and slow, reproducing infrequently and possibly living ____ millions of years.
They often acquire energy in unusual ways, breathing rock ____ of oxygen.
And they seem capable of weathering geological ____ that would wipe out most creatures.
Like the many tiny organisms in the ocean and ____ the unique microbes within Earth’s crust do not simply inhabit their surroundings — they transform them.
Subsurface microbes carve vast caverns, concentrate minerals and precious metals, and regulate ____ global cycling of carbon and nutrients.
Microbes may ____ have helped construct the continents, literally laying the groundwork for all other terrestrial life.