2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. ____ For the past four years, 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 others to sustain our ____

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 ____ 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 ____ 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.

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

A powerful earthquake struck ____ 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, who was ____ the room at the other end of our house.

____ was dark after the power went out.

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

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

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

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

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

____ over the debris, I finally reached Dustin.

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

I hugged Dustin tight and ____ a sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s often fun ____ 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 around, ____ looking at your system.

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

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

The Mediterranean will become ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ move some houses, switch crops, or buy insurance, we need data at scales of less than 100 kilometers.

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

No region is ____ 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 model.

The bear not only knows where and ____ 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 need to retreat from the world, particularly after ____ of stress.

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

We might consider withdrawing from ____ 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 come out of ____ dens once spring arrives.

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

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

Plants are not set pieces in ____ human drama, they are characters with distinct experiences 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 that they don’t exist is ____ very dangerous form of disregard.

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

To bring real change, we ____ 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 to make sense of this is by reminding ourselves that they ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 instance, ____ (association football).

Before European contact, ball games that ____ 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) and a multitude of other international ____

You might easily ____ 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 ____ was an American artist and author of children’s books who was known for her illustrations.

____ began drawing at an early age.

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

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

____ early work was as both 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, ____ 1930 and a year later collaborated with her younger sister on Building a House in Sweden.

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

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