EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어
3강 글의 주제
기출 평범한 것을 통한 특이한 것의 이해
It is much more natural to be surprised by unusual phenomena like eclipses than ordinary phenomena like falling bodies ____ 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 not even ____ them.
But the reason for eclipses is ultimately the same ____ 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 let them go.
For the physicist, understanding the ordinary, the habitual, and the frequent thus allows us to account for the frightening and ____ singular.
As such, it was thus necessary to ask “Why do ____ 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, QR codes, tablets, mobile apps, virtual fashion and digital ____ windows replace and merge with previous consumption spheres.
Consumer activities such as purchasing, comparing and ____ goods 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, decision making ____ the relationships with physical stores are becoming more intimately dependent on smartphones, tablets and other digital devices.
Growing numbers of available recommendation systems and ____ review platforms have also assumed a prominent role in consumption practices.
In their use and co-production of such recommendation systems for books, ____ 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 consumption that results in the development of new cultures of ____
2 미국의 재정착 정책과 부족의 정치 조직 형태
When a superior army fails to dominate a weaker enemy, the causes ____ include the unfamiliar terrain and geographical decentralization of the enemy.
But that is not ____ primary characteristic that determines the outcome.
The U.S. policy of ____ on reservation land can be analyzed for each of the tribes to determine how organizational style affects military success.
History never simplifies down to singular causes, such as political ____ but some trends are more evident than others.
The more sedentary ____ who relied on agriculture 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 U.S. ____
Political decentralization. Those with strong chieftains were more ____ settled on reservations.
____ last groups to 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 change careers — or why we change, only to end up in the same ____ — 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 can hide from the need for change by telling ____ how much the company needs us.
Like Dan, who postponed vacations and overrode family obligations when the organization needed him, most working ____ 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 ____ appear to be a work-life balance problem, or an inability to free ourselves from unrewarding or overly political working relationships, is in fact our inability to separate our commitment to an organization from being the organization.
4 AI 시스템 통제의 어려움
To ____ AI systems more human-value aligned, including more respect for privacy, governments are seeking to regulate AI inputs and processes.
____ the input level, these 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 ____ for control over input or process can quickly lose any sense of priority or urgency for all but the most zealous of privacy advocates.
The attraction of AI outputs that are strikingly useful, precise, efficient, accurate, ____ 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.
Whether we ____ introduce human alignment into emergent and evolvable intelligence is a much-debated issue.
This has led cautionary experts to argue that, while we are achieving technical ____ AI may move beyond these initial constraints imposed on it to achieve its own best goals.
5 지구 내부의 미생물
Osburn ____ her colleagues have shown that, contrary to long-held assumptions, Earth’s interior is not lifeless.
In fact, the majority of ____ planet’s microbes — perhaps more than 90 percent — may live deep underground.
These intraterrestrial ____ tend to be quite different from their counterparts on the surface.
They are ancient and ____ reproducing infrequently and possibly living for millions of years.
They often acquire energy in ____ ways, breathing rock instead of oxygen.
And they seem ____ of weathering geological disasters that would wipe out most creatures.
Like the many ____ organisms in the ocean and atmosphere, 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 the global cycling ____ carbon and nutrients.
Microbes ____ even have helped construct the continents, literally laying the groundwork for all other terrestrial life.