2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

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

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

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

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

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

As ____ volunteers, we value our autonomy and should 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 ____ at midnight, jolting me awake and nearly throwing me out of my bed.

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

Everything was dark after the power went ____

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

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

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

Then, the shaking stopped, and everything became quiet ____ 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 the room, ____ missing his bed.

Crawling ____ the debris, I finally reached Dustin.

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

I hugged Dustin tight and breathed a sigh ____ relief.

In that moment, nothing else mattered but the fact that ____ son was safe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s often fun to ____ this 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 ____ your system.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One approach is to embed a finer-scale model of a particular area of interest into ____ 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 exchange ____ 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 ____ we sometimes feel a need to retreat from the world, particularly after periods of stress.

When we feel this bear-like urge to carve out restorative time ____ “hibernate,” we should think 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, ____ plant seeds of thought that will hopefully spring up and come to fruition in the future.

However, we also need to remember that bears ____ 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 urge to retreat for restoration with the opportunity to be revitalized by ____ that the world has to offer.

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

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

While we can (and do) dismiss the moral importance of plant experiences, to pretend that they ____ exist is a very dangerous form of disregard.

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

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

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

They have just as much of a right to clean water, healthy soil, and a liveable atmosphere as the rest of ____ 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 ____ not.

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

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

Take, for instance, ____ (association football).

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

Today, futbol ignites the passions of millions of Mexicans. Estadio Azteca has been filled to overflowing for two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986) and a multitude ____ 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 ____ food. It did not.

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

Sewell began drawing ____ an early age.

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

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

Sewell’s early work ____ as both an author and an illustrator.

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

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

She also illustrated classic works, ____ those by American poet Emily Dickinson and British 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 by ____ author Alice Dalgliesh.