2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For the past ____ 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 ____ our commitment.

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

This worked very ____ for all of us because it allowed the flexibility 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 ____ 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 working hours ____ be assigned by management.

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

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

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

Everything was dark ____ the power went out.

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

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

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

Then, the shaking stopped, and everything became quiet as I ____ 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, narrowly missing his ____.

____ over the debris, I finally reached Dustin.

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

I hugged Dustin ____ and breathed a sigh of relief.

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

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

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

Sadly, few of us “have the time” to ____ 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 ____ working hypotheses that are grounded in reality.

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

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

____ often fun 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 ____ around, just looking at your system.

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

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

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

But this is like saying you should carry an umbrella in ____ 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 much finer scales than general circulation models (____) can provide.

To decide whether to put up a dike, move some ____, switch crops, or buy insurance, we need data at scales of less than 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 ____ and exchange information with the 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 need to retreat from the world, ____ 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 ____ 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, or plant seeds of ____ 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 can deprive us of ____ 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 all that the ____ has to offer.

Plants are ____ set pieces in our human drama, they are characters with distinct experiences and needs.

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

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

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

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

Our ____ 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 persons.

They have just as much of a right to clean ____, 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 blending of influences that developed ____ over the world, contemporary sports do not.

In fact, global ____ spread more like the bubonic 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 ____, soccer (association football).

Before European contact, ball games that limited or barred the ____ 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 conclude that futbol fused Mesoamerican and European sporting pastimes, ____ 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 ____ was known for her illustrations.

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

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

In 1924, she ____ her first 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 ____ collaborated with her younger sister on Building a House in Sweden.

She also illustrated ____ works, including 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 ____ Story by American author Alice Dalgliesh.