2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For the past four years, volunteering at the Langford Science ____ 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 many ____ to sustain our commitment.

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

This worked very well for all of us because it allowed the ____ 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 volunteer schedules without consulting us, causing a great deal of upset among the ____ and resulting in numerous cancellations of shifts.

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

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

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

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

Everything was ____ after the power went out.

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

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

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

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

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

Crawling over the debris, I finally reached ____.

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

I hugged ____ tight and breathed a sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But this is like saying you should carry an umbrella in Spain because it is going to ____ 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 data at scales of less than ____ kilometers.

One approach is to embed a finer-scale model of a ____ area of interest into 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 exchange information with the ____ 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 need to retreat from the world, particularly after ____ of stress.

When we feel this bear-like urge to carve out ____ time to “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 ____ project, plan a trip, or plant seeds of thought that will hopefully spring up and come to fruition in the future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our cold, utilitarian approach to reducing climate change ____ 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 ____ of plants, 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 ____ of influences that developed all over the world, contemporary sports do not.

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

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

Take, for ____, soccer (association football).

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

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

You might ____ conclude that futbol fused Mesoamerican and European sporting pastimes, much like pizza and pasta fused Old World and New World 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 at an ____ age.

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

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

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

In 1924, she illustrated her ____ book, Susanne K. Langer’s The Cruise of 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 ____ on Building a House in Sweden.

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

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