EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어
10강 글의 순서 파악
기출 조류의 정렬과 감정 전염의 상관관계
Watch the birds in your backyard. If one bird startles and flies off, others will follow, not waiting around ____ assess whether the threat is real.
____ have been infected by emotional contagion.
In a long-term research project that Marc did with some of his students on patterns of antipredatory ____ by western evening grosbeaks, they found that birds in a circle showed more coordination in scanning than did birds who were feeding in a line.
The birds in a line, who could only see their nearest neighbor, not only were less coordinated when scanning, but also were ____ nervous, changing their body and head positions significantly more than grosbeaks in a circle, where it was possible for each grosbeak to see every other grosbeak.
Marc wondered whether the birds in line were more fearful because they didn’t know ____ their flockmates were doing.
Emotional contagion would have been impossible for individual grosbeaks in the ____ array except with their nearest neighbors.
1 개인주의
In the United States, individualism is one of our ____ cultural values, and it continues to rise both here and in other countries.
There are clever ways to measure this, like looking at the products ____ a culture creates.
Psychologist Patricia Greenfield conducted a study of more than one and a half million books, starting with those published in ____ and going all the way up to 2000.
She found ____ over time, individualistic words like me, self, and unique began to appear far more frequently, reflecting our shifting values.
The word ____ quadrupled in use during the course of two hundred years.
Another study looked ____ television shows made for tweens and calculated how often they celebrated specific values.
In 1967, personal fame ranked fifteenth out of sixteen of the top ____ In 2007, it ranked first out of sixteen.
2 불확실성과 타자화
While we experience some uncertainty in most interactions, when our level of ____ reaches a tipping point, it turns into anxiety.
The more uncertain about the other person we ____ the more discomfort we are in.
Anxiety has a negative impact on a person’s willingness to interact with ____ from a different culture.
And as their anxiety level increases, people ____ more apt to engage in othering, making others feel they don’t belong.
Othering could be driven by experiencing more fear of and the desire to avoid “the other” — anyone who is perceived not to belong to one’s group and is ____ relegated to out-group status.
It might also ____ caused by an existing bias favoring in-groups.
Have you heard someone say, “Ugh! ____ first-years (or seniors) are so annoying!”
Many try to allay their negative feelings toward members of a perceived out-group by weaving a fictional paradigm that the other person belongs to an inferior culture, ____ that their own culture is better than the other’s culture.
3 정보 통신에서의 디지털 기술 탄생
In 1948, Claude Shannon, an American mathematician and electronics engineer, published a paper ____ A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
This launched the information ____ by unlocking the mathematics of information and showing how it could be transmitted digitally.
At ____ time, messages could only be transmitted using a continuous, analog signal.
The main drawback to this was that waves become weaker the further they ____ and increasing background interference creeps in.
Eventually, this ____ noise” overwhelms the original message.
Shannon’s solution was to divide information into the smallest possible chunks, or “bits” ____ digits).
The message is converted into a code made of 0s and 1s — every 0 is a low voltage and every 1 is a ____ voltage.
In creating this code, Shannon drew on binary ____ the idea that figures can be represented by just 0s and 1s, which had been developed by Gottfried Leibniz.
Although Shannon was not the ____ to send information digitally, he fine-tuned the technique.
For him, it was ____ simply about solving technical problems of transmitting information efficiently.
By ____ that information could be expressed as binary digits, he launched the theory of information.
4 모유 수유와 우유 알레르기의 연관성
The choice of whether or not to breastfeed exclusively is a ____ personal decision for every mother and the role it plays in preventing the development of future allergies is still up for debate, but breastfeeding does appear to be beneficial for the development of the baby’s gut microbiome.
If mothers decide to breastfeed their children, they should nevertheless be aware of one thing: breastmilk, on its own, does not contain beta-lactoglobulin proteins like those present in ____ milk.
When a mother consumes dairy products, though, this food allergen is passed ____ her child via her breastmilk.
As a result of this phenomenon, breastmilk ____ trigger cow’s milk protein allergies in certain babies.
____ information is not meant to minimize the benefits of breastfeeding.
On the contrary, ____ this possibility can point parents and doctors toward a cow’s milk allergy diagnosis if an exclusively breastfed baby is experiencing digestive or skin issues.
5 사실적 믿음에 기반하는 상상력
____ governance means that factual beliefs guide how imagining unfolds.
When Kevin imagines lightning hitting a tree, he next imagines the tree bursting ____ flame.
But that imaginative transition ____ from imagining the lightning strike to imagining the flames — doesn’t come from nowhere.
Kevin’s factual beliefs (that lightning is extremely hot and that trees are wood and hence flammable) guide his imagination from one ____ to the next.
If he didn’t have these ____ beliefs about lightning and trees, his imaginings wouldn’t unfold in that fashion.
Thus, factual beliefs govern inferential ____ among imaginings (as well as other secondary cognitive attitudes).
Otherwise put, the information stored in a person’s factual beliefs guides how that ____ imaginings unfold; it does the same for other cognitive attitudes.
Importantly, imaginings don’t do ____ same for factual beliefs, and this lack of symmetry is a defining contrast.