EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어
10강 글의 순서 파악
기출 조류의 정렬과 감정 전염의 상관관계
Watch the ____ in your backyard. If one bird startles and flies off, others will follow, not waiting around to assess whether the threat is real.
They have been infected by emotional ____.
In a long-term research project that Marc did with some of his ____ on 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, ____ could only see their 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 fearful because they didn’t know what their flockmates were ____.
____ contagion would have been impossible for individual grosbeaks in the linear array except with their nearest neighbors.
1 개인주의
In the United States, individualism is one of our strongest cultural values, and it ____ to rise both here and in other countries.
____ are clever ways to measure 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 ____ to appear far more frequently, reflecting our shifting values.
The word get ____ in use during the course of two hundred years.
Another ____ looked at television shows made for tweens and calculated how often they celebrated specific values.
In 1967, personal fame ____ fifteenth out of sixteen of the top values. In 2007, it ranked first out of sixteen.
2 불확실성과 타자화
While we experience some uncertainty in ____ interactions, when our level of uncertainty reaches a tipping point, it turns into anxiety.
The more ____ about the other person we feel, the more discomfort 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 desire to avoid “the other” — anyone who is ____ not to belong to one’s group and is therefore relegated to out-group status.
It ____ also be caused by an existing bias favoring 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 ____ person belongs 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, published a paper ____ A Mathematical Theory of Communication.
This launched the ____ age by unlocking the mathematics of information and showing how it could be transmitted digitally.
At the time, messages could ____ be transmitted using a continuous, analog signal.
The main drawback to this was that waves become ____ the further they travel, and increasing background interference creeps in.
Eventually, this “white noise” overwhelms the original ____.
____ solution was to divide information into the smallest possible chunks, or “bits” (binary digits).
The message is converted into a code made of 0s and 1s — every 0 is a low voltage and ____ 1 is a high voltage.
In creating this code, Shannon drew on binary mathematics, the idea that figures can be represented by just 0s and 1s, which ____ been developed by Gottfried Leibniz.
Although ____ was not the first to send information digitally, he fine-tuned the technique.
For him, it was not simply ____ solving technical problems of transmitting information efficiently.
By showing that information could be ____ as binary digits, he launched the theory of information.
4 모유 수유와 우유 알레르기의 연관성
The ____ of whether or not 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 ____ 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, ____, this food allergen is passed to her child via her breastmilk.
As a result of this phenomenon, breastmilk can trigger cow’s milk ____ allergies in certain babies.
This information is not meant to minimize the ____ 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
Cognitive governance ____ that factual beliefs guide how imagining unfolds.
When Kevin imagines lightning hitting a tree, he next ____ the tree bursting into flame.
But that imaginative transition — from imagining the lightning ____ 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 ____) 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 ____ among imaginings (as well as other secondary cognitive attitudes).
Otherwise put, the information stored in a person’s factual beliefs guides how that person’s imaginings unfold; it does the same for other cognitive ____.
Importantly, imaginings don’t do the same for factual beliefs, and this lack of symmetry is a ____ contrast.