2026 수특 영독연 11강 변형문제 (7-12번)

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

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

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

The latter, with their minimal lightweight possessions, could fairly easily up and move to some other ____ where the damage was not so great.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But even allowing nonbasic terms and even 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 ____ eye can discern.

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

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

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

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

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

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

As global demand for wool to be used in clothing and other goods ____ 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 that had been ____ primary resource for survival for centuries.

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

Both are ____ 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 or use).

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

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

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

clever. However, being clever ____ not being wise.

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

I am referring to an inattentive listening, only waiting for a chance to speak, and even becoming impatient, wishing to get ____ 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 urge to interrupt and get a word in can be ____ powerful.

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

____ has been said that big egos have little ears.

The bank account analogy ____ 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 nutrients that make that crop good food, ____ taken out of the soil and moved to wherever you are.

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

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

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

But for eight billion people? Or ____ ten?

The food required to feed all of us requires a lot of nitrogen to be removed from farms, and it needs to be replaced, or ____ 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 nutrients passing through humans to the ____ soil where they came.

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