2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

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

Previously, ____ were asked to sign up for available slots on the 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 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 should not be treated like salaried employees whose ____ hours can be assigned by management.

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

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

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

Everything was dark after the ____ went out.

I ran across the house in ____ 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 ____, 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 ____ bookcases had fallen into the center of the 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 ____ a sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, carve out some time to ____ 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 opposite can work well too: consider spending a whole day with no other people or distractions around, just ____ at your system.

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

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

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

But this is like saying you should carry an ____ 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 ____ 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 of less ____ 100 kilometers.

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

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

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

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

We might consider withdrawing ____ 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 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 deprive us of ____ with and inspiration from the outside world.

It’s best to balance the urge to retreat for restoration with the ____ 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 affection, care, and ____.

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

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

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 of this is by reminding ourselves that they are ____.

They have just as much of a right to clean water, ____ 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 ____ the world, contemporary sports do not.

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

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

Take, for instance, soccer (____ football).

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

Today, futbol ignites the passions of ____ 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 ____ Old World and New World food. It did not.

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

Sewell began drawing at an early ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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