2026 수특 영독연 11강 변형문제 (7-12번)

A successful farming community could ____ in a small region a much greater population than the foragers could have.

There were, however, very significant downsides to this new ____ of life.

First of all, storms, droughts, floods, torrential rains, and other severe weather anomalies could be disastrous for a farming community while posing only ____ major nuisance to foragers.

The latter, with their minimal lightweight possessions, could fairly easily up and move to some other area where the damage was ____ so great.

But, more importantly, the natural home they depended on was much less likely ____ be severely damaged than were the crops and structures the agricultural community relied on.

By replacing their natural home ____ an artificial construction, the farmers, paradoxically enough, had made themselves more defenseless to natural disasters;

in fact, ____ events that were not at all disasters for the foragers became disasters for them.

There are special situations in which people may ____ dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct words for colors.

One famous brand of house paints has more than two ____ colors in its commercial palette.

Many of these are labeled with unique (and decidedly ____ English names: violet posy, wing commander, Aztec tan.

But even allowing nonbasic terms and ____ allowing the highly specialized vocabulary of the paint industry, the distinctions that languages make in the color space are astronomically small in comparison to well over 2 million distinctions in color that the human eye can discern.

Even in highly specialized, technical vocabularies, the total inventory of color terms in use makes less than one-tenth of 1 percent ____ the discernible distinctions in color that the human visual system can make.

The everyday vocabulary that most people use ____ be one hundred times less than that again.

Our perceptual experience is rich, but our language comes ____ close to that richness.

If you think that ____ is good for capturing perceptual experience, think again.

In Britain, large open areas of land known as the commons were the property ____ land-owning nobility but were accessible for use by peasants.

They used the commons to conduct small-scale agriculture, ____ collect wood for fuel and cooking, and to raise small amounts of livestock for their families.

As global demand for wool to ____ used in clothing and other goods increased, landowners sought more grazing land to increase wool production, so they privatized the commons, fencing them off and thus cutting off access to the peasants.

By this process of the enclosure of the commons, peasants were cut off from land ____ had been their primary resource for survival for centuries.

Today, there are interesting correlations between the physical commons of English pasturelands and the ____ commons of the internet.

Both are rich with opportunities for self-subsistence, expression, flourishing; both are full of challenges from enclosure and landlords (e.g., platform owners who charge fees for access ____ use).

In Britain, as the demand for wool increased, peasants’ access to the commons ____ blocked, and this resembles contemporary situations we are facing in the digital world.

The reason listening can be so ____ appears to be our narcissistic disposition.

Too often, we pretend to be ____ while our mind is racing in trying to think of something

clever. ____ being clever is not being wise.

In addition, to exacerbate our narcissistic tendencies, there is also the kind of listening ____ half an ear that presumes that we already know what the other person is going to say.

I am ____ to an inattentive listening, only waiting for a chance to speak, and even becoming impatient, wishing to get rid of the other person.

As the philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo ____ once said, ‘There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.’

This ____ to interrupt and get a word in can be quite powerful.

Some people just want to hear themselves speak just to confirm ____ validate their existence.

It has been said that big egos have ____ ears.

The bank account ____ helps express why increased agricultural production must be accompanied by fertilizer use.

Every time you harvest a crop and eat it, the nitrogen (and other nutrients) in those plants, the very ____ that make that crop good food, are taken out of the soil and moved to wherever you are.

Some of those nutrients accumulate in your body (if you are growing), ____ most pass through.

Either way, unless you and your waste are returned to the farm, there ____ a net loss of nutrients from the soil — a net withdrawal from the nutrient bank.

When there were relatively few people, most of whom lived, went to the bathroom, and died on or near the farm, leaving fields uncultivated or planting legumes and plowing them under was ____ reasonably sustainable way to produce food.

But ____ eight billion people? Or for ten?

The food required to feed all of ____ requires a lot of nitrogen to be removed from farms, and it needs to be replaced, or the soil bank account of nitrogen will run out.

This means feeding the world requires industrially produced nitrogen fertilizer, at least for the foreseeable future, until we figure out a safe and effective way to return the ____ passing through humans to the farm soil where they came.

____ other words, we thrive because of our innovations in capturing nitrogen.