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 ____ off, others will follow, not waiting around to 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 ____ patterns of antipredatory scanning 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 ____ nearest neighbor, not only were less coordinated when scanning, but also were more 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 ____ because they didn’t know what their flockmates were doing.
Emotional contagion would have been impossible for individual grosbeaks in ____ linear array except with their nearest neighbors.
1 개인주의
In the United States, individualism is one of our strongest cultural values, and it continues to rise both here and in other ____
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 million books, ____ 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 began to appear ____ more frequently, reflecting our shifting values.
The word get quadrupled in use during the course of two ____ years.
Another study looked at television shows made for tweens and calculated how often they celebrated specific ____
In 1967, personal fame ranked fifteenth out of sixteen of the top values. ____ 2007, it ranked first out of sixteen.
2 불확실성과 타자화
While we experience some uncertainty ____ most interactions, when our level of uncertainty reaches a tipping point, it turns into anxiety.
The more uncertain about the ____ person we feel, the more discomfort we are in.
Anxiety has a negative ____ on a person’s willingness to interact with someone from a different culture.
And as their anxiety level increases, people become more apt ____ 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 therefore relegated ____ out-group status.
It might also be caused by an existing bias ____ in-groups.
Have ____ 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 ____ to an inferior culture, and 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, ____ a paper called A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
This launched the information age by unlocking the mathematics of information and showing how it ____ be transmitted digitally.
At the time, messages could ____ be transmitted using a continuous, analog signal.
The main drawback to this ____ that waves become weaker the further they travel, and increasing background interference creeps in.
Eventually, ____ “white noise” overwhelms the original message.
Shannon’s solution was to divide information into the smallest possible chunks, or ____ (binary digits).
The message is converted into a code made of 0s and 1s — every 0 is a low ____ and every 1 is a high voltage.
In creating this code, ____ drew on binary mathematics, the idea that figures can be represented by just 0s and 1s, which had been developed by Gottfried Leibniz.
Although Shannon was not the first to send information digitally, he fine-tuned ____ technique.
For him, it was not simply about solving technical problems of ____ information efficiently.
By showing that information could be expressed ____ binary digits, he launched the theory of information.
4 모유 수유와 우유 알레르기의 연관성
The choice of whether or ____ to breastfeed exclusively is a completely 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: ____ on its own, does not contain beta-lactoglobulin proteins like those present in cow’s milk.
When a mother consumes ____ products, though, this food allergen is passed to her child via her breastmilk.
As a result of this phenomenon, ____ can trigger cow’s milk protein allergies in certain babies.
This information ____ not meant to minimize the benefits of breastfeeding.
On the contrary, understanding this possibility can point parents and doctors toward a cow’s milk allergy diagnosis if an exclusively breastfed ____ is experiencing digestive or skin issues.
5 사실적 믿음에 기반하는 상상력
Cognitive governance means that factual beliefs ____ how imagining unfolds.
When Kevin imagines lightning hitting a tree, he next imagines the tree bursting into ____
But that imaginative transition — from ____ 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 ____ one imagining to the next.
If he didn’t have these factual beliefs about lightning and trees, his imaginings ____ unfold in that fashion.
____ factual beliefs govern inferential transitions among imaginings (as well as other secondary cognitive attitudes).
Otherwise put, the information ____ in a person’s factual beliefs guides how that person’s imaginings unfold; it does the same for other cognitive attitudes.
Importantly, imaginings ____ do the same for factual beliefs, and this lack of symmetry is a defining contrast.