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 to assess whether the threat is ____.
They ____ been infected by emotional contagion.
In a long-term research project that Marc did with some of his students on patterns of antipredatory scanning by western evening grosbeaks, they found that birds in a ____ 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 more nervous, changing their ____ 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 ____ fearful because they didn’t know what their flockmates were doing.
Emotional contagion would have ____ impossible for individual grosbeaks in the linear array except with their nearest neighbors.
1 개인주의
In the ____ States, individualism is one of our strongest cultural values, and it continues to rise both here and in other countries.
There are clever ways to ____ this, like looking at the products that a culture creates.
Psychologist Patricia Greenfield conducted a study of more than one and a half ____ books, starting with those published in 1800 and going all the way up to 2000.
She found that, over time, individualistic words like me, self, and unique ____ to appear far more frequently, reflecting our shifting values.
The word get ____ in use during the course of two hundred years.
Another study looked at ____ shows made for tweens and calculated how often they celebrated specific values.
In 1967, personal fame ranked fifteenth ____ of sixteen of the top values. In 2007, it ranked first out of sixteen.
2 불확실성과 타자화
While we experience some uncertainty in most ____, when our level of uncertainty reaches a tipping point, it turns into anxiety.
The more uncertain about the other person we feel, the more ____ we are in.
Anxiety has a negative impact on a person’s willingness to interact with someone ____ 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 ____ to avoid “the other” — anyone who is perceived not to belong to one’s group and is therefore relegated to out-group status.
It might also be caused by an existing bias ____ in-groups.
____ you heard someone say, “Ugh! Those 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, and that their own culture is ____ than the other’s culture.
3 정보 통신에서의 디지털 기술 탄생
In 1948, Claude Shannon, an American mathematician and electronics engineer, published a paper called A Mathematical Theory of ____.
This launched the information age by unlocking the mathematics of information and showing how it ____ be transmitted digitally.
At the time, messages could only be transmitted ____ a continuous, analog signal.
The main drawback to this was that waves become weaker the further they travel, and increasing background interference ____ in.
Eventually, this “white noise” ____ the original message.
Shannon’s solution was to divide information ____ the smallest possible chunks, or “bits” (binary digits).
The message is converted into a code made of 0s and 1s — ____ 0 is a low voltage and every 1 is a high voltage.
In creating this code, Shannon drew on binary mathematics, the idea that figures can be represented by ____ 0s and 1s, which had been developed by Gottfried Leibniz.
Although ____ was not the first to send information digitally, he fine-tuned the technique.
For ____, it was not 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 completely personal decision for every mother and the ____ 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 ____ their children, they should nevertheless be aware of one thing: breastmilk, on its own, does not contain beta-lactoglobulin proteins like those present in cow’s milk.
When a mother consumes dairy products, though, this food ____ is passed to her child via her breastmilk.
As a result of this ____, breastmilk can trigger cow’s milk protein allergies in certain babies.
This information is not meant to ____ the benefits of breastfeeding.
On the ____, understanding 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
Cognitive governance means that factual beliefs guide ____ imagining unfolds.
When Kevin imagines lightning hitting a tree, he next imagines the tree bursting ____ flame.
But that ____ transition — from imagining the lightning strike to imagining the flames — doesn’t come from nowhere.
Kevin’s ____ beliefs (that lightning is extremely hot and that trees are wood and hence flammable) guide his imagination from one imagining to the next.
If he ____ have these factual beliefs about lightning and trees, his imaginings wouldn’t unfold in that fashion.
Thus, factual beliefs govern inferential transitions among imaginings (as well as other secondary ____ attitudes).
Otherwise put, the information stored in a person’s factual beliefs guides how that person’s imaginings unfold; it does the ____ for other cognitive attitudes.
Importantly, imaginings don’t do the same for factual beliefs, and this lack of symmetry is a ____ contrast.