2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For ____ 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 ____ me and many others 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 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 can ____ assigned by management.

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

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

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

Everything was dark after the ____ went out.

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

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

I had to get to my son, no matter ____

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

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

Crawling over the debris, I ____ reached Dustin.

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

I ____ Dustin tight and breathed a sigh of relief.

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

Good intuition is the first requirement for designing meaningful ecological ____

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

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

Graduate committees and tenure reviewers are not likely ____ 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 get to know ____ organisms.

If you are too busy with classes and other responsibilities, then reserve two days before you start your experiments to observe your ecological system with no ____ (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 around, just looking at your ____

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

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

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

But this is like saying you should carry an umbrella in Spain because it is going ____ rain in Vietnam.

To plan for and adapt effectively to climate change, we need information about the future ____ 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 ____ of 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 ____ the finer-scale regional climate model.

The bear not only knows where and when to find food, he also knows when to retreat to his den ____ 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 ____ “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 creative project, plan a trip, or plant seeds of thought that ____ hopefully spring up and come to fruition in the future.

However, we ____ need 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 world has to ____

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

____ us, they are capable 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 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 welfare of plants, and the best way for us to make sense of this is ____ 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 ____ ethical dimensions of climate change.

Whereas contemporary cuisines represent a true blending of influences that developed all over the ____ 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 spread to ____ parts of the world.

Take, for instance, ____ (association football).

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

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

You might easily conclude that ____ 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 ____ children’s books who was known for her illustrations.

Sewell began ____ at an early age.

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

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

Sewell’s early work was as both an author and an ____

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

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

She also illustrated classic works, including those ____ American poet Emily Dickinson and British 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.