2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For the past four years, volunteering at the Langford Science Museum has been a ____ 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 ____ sign up for available slots on the schedule.

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

In the last six weeks, ____ the new manager 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 unpaid volunteers, we value our autonomy ____ should not be treated like salaried employees whose working hours can be assigned by management.

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

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

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

Everything was dark after the power ____ out.

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

A violent aftershock knocked me to my knees, but I ____ stop.

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

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

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

Crawling over the debris, I ____ reached Dustin.

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

I ____ Dustin tight and breathed a sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

Graduate committees and tenure reviewers are not likely to ____ 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 ____ to observe your ecological system with no manipulations (or preconceived notions).

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

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

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

As the planet ____ warmer, 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 ____ going to rain in Vietnam.

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

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

One approach is to embed a finer-scale model of ____ particular 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 ____ finer-scale regional climate model.

The bear not only knows ____ and when to find food, he also knows when to retreat 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 think of it as the sensible impulse ____ 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 ____ thought that will hopefully spring up and come to fruition in the future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To bring real change, we need to ____ 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 to make sense ____ 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 us, and this needs to be remembered when we consider the ____ dimensions of climate change.

Whereas ____ cuisines represent a true blending of influences that developed all over the world, contemporary sports do not.

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

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

____ for instance, soccer (association football).

____ European contact, ball games that limited or barred the use of the hands flourished in 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) ____ 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 ____ and New World food. It did not.

____ Moore Sewell was an American artist and author of 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 Institute, which ____ especially renowned for art and design.

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

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

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

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

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

During her ____ 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.