2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For the past four years, volunteering at the ____ Science Museum has been a source of pride since my retirement as a university professor.

However, recent changes in volunteer schedule management are proving increasingly challenging for me and ____ others to sustain our commitment.

____ volunteers were asked to sign up for available slots on the schedule.

This worked very ____ for all of us because it allowed the flexibility to fit our volunteer time with various other demands on our time.

In the last six weeks, though, the new manager of volunteer services has begun assigning us to ____ schedules without consulting us, causing a great deal of upset among the volunteers and resulting in numerous cancellations of shifts.

As unpaid volunteers, we value our autonomy and ____ not be treated like salaried employees whose working hours can be assigned by management.

I hope you can address ____ problem before it becomes too great to solve.

A powerful earthquake struck our home at midnight, jolting ____ awake and nearly throwing me out of my bed.

My instant ____ was to run and get my son, Dustin, who was in the room at the other end of our house.

Everything ____ dark after the power went out.

I ran across the house in total darkness, my hands outstretched, blindly feeling for walls ____ furniture to guide me towards Dustin’s bedroom.

A ____ aftershock knocked me to my knees, but I couldn’t stop.

I had to ____ to my son, no matter what.

Then, the shaking stopped, and everything became ____ as I peered into my son’s bedroom.

By now accustomed to the darkness, I could make out that Dustin’s bookcases had fallen into the center of ____ room, narrowly missing his bed.

Crawling over the ____ I finally reached Dustin.

He was shaking with fear, but was huddling safely ____ the covers.

I hugged Dustin tight and breathed a sigh of ____

In that moment, ____ else mattered but the fact that my son was safe.

Good intuition is the first requirement for ____ meaningful ecological studies.

The best way to develop that ____ is by observing organisms in the field.

Sadly, few ____ us “have the time” to just observe nature.

Graduate committees and tenure ____ are not likely to recommend investing precious time in this way.

However, observations are absolutely essential for you to generate ____ hypotheses that are grounded in reality.

So, carve out ____ time to get to know your organisms.

If you are too busy with classes and other responsibilities, then reserve two days before you start your experiments to observe ____ ecological system with no manipulations (or preconceived notions).

It’s often fun to do ____ with a lab mate or colleague.

The opposite can work well too: consider spending a whole day with no other people or distractions around, just looking at your ____

We are getting better at understanding the influence of humans on ____ global climate system.

As the planet gets warmer, high latitudes will warm faster than ____ tropics.

The Mediterranean will become ____ and the tropics will be wetter.

But this is ____ saying you should carry an umbrella in Spain because it is going to rain in Vietnam.

To plan for and adapt effectively to climate change, we need information about the future climate at much finer scales than general circulation models ____ can provide.

To decide whether to put up a dike, move some houses, switch crops, or buy insurance, we need ____ at scales of less than 100 kilometers.

One approach is to embed a finer-scale model of a particular area of interest ____ a larger-scale GCM.

No region is isolated from the rest of the planet, so the GCM part of the model can keep track of what is going on globally and ____ information with the finer-scale regional climate model.

The bear not only knows where and when to find food, he also knows when to ____ to his den to ride out a challenging time.

Like the bear, we sometimes feel a ____ to retreat from the world, particularly after periods of stress.

When we feel this bear-like urge to carve out restorative time to “hibernate,” we should ____ of it as the sensible impulse of our inner bear.

We might consider withdrawing from some social activities to take stock of our lives, start a creative project, plan a trip, or plant seeds of thought that will hopefully spring up ____ come to fruition in the future.

However, we also need to remember ____ bears come out of their dens once spring arrives.

Spending too much time in isolation can ____ us of connection with and inspiration from the outside world.

It’s best to balance the ____ to retreat for restoration with the opportunity to be revitalized by all that the world has to offer.

Plants are not set pieces ____ our human drama, they are characters with distinct experiences and needs.

Like us, they are ____ of affection, care, and suffering.

While we ____ (and do) dismiss the moral importance of plant experiences, to pretend that they don’t exist is a very dangerous form of disregard.

Our cold, utilitarian approach to ____ climate change has so far been largely ineffectual.

To bring real change, we need to learn to see plants as independent, intrinsically valuable, sentient beings — not mere tools for our own human ____

Our welfare is deeply dependent upon the welfare of ____ and the best way for us to make sense of this is by reminding ourselves that they are persons.

They have just as much of a right to ____ water, healthy soil, and a liveable atmosphere as the rest of us, and this needs to be remembered when we consider the ethical dimensions of climate change.

Whereas contemporary cuisines represent a true blending of influences that developed all over the world, contemporary sports do ____

In fact, global sports spread more like the ____ plague than the burrito.

They ____ global phenomena that emerged almost exclusively from Western civilization — from European nations and European settler societies — and spread to other parts of the world.

Take, for instance, soccer ____ football).

Before ____ contact, ball games that limited or barred the use of the hands flourished in Mesoamerica.

Today, futbol ____ the passions of millions of Mexicans. Estadio Azteca has been filled to overflowing for two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986) and a multitude of other international matches.

You might easily conclude that futbol fused Mesoamerican and European sporting pastimes, much like pizza and pasta fused Old World and New World food. ____ did not.

Helen Moore Sewell was an American artist and author ____ children’s books who was known for her illustrations.

Sewell began drawing ____ an early age.

At the age of 12, she became the youngest person ever to attend the Pratt ____ which was especially renowned for art and design.

She also studied under the Ukrainian American artist Alexander Archipenko, who dramatically influenced her ____

____ early work was as both an author and an illustrator.

In 1924, she illustrated her first book, Susanne K. Langer’s The Cruise ____ the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales.

She illustrated her own book, ABC for Everyday, in 1930 and a year later collaborated with her younger sister ____ Building a House in Sweden.

She also illustrated classic works, including those by American poet Emily Dickinson and ____ authors like Jane Austen.

During her career, Sewell illustrated more than 50 books. She won a Caldecott Honor in 1955 for her illustrations in The Thanksgiving Story ____ American author Alice Dalgliesh.