2026 수특 영독연 11강 변형문제 (7-12번)

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

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

First of all, storms, droughts, floods, torrential rains, and other severe weather anomalies could be disastrous for a farming community ____ posing only a 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 to be severely damaged than were the crops and structures the ____ community relied on.

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

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

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

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

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

But even allowing nonbasic terms and even allowing the highly specialized vocabulary of the paint industry, the distinctions that languages ____ 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 ____, 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 ____ times less than that again.

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

If you think that language is ____ 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 ____ for use by peasants.

They used the commons to conduct small-scale ____, 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 increased, landowners sought more grazing land to ____ wool production, so they privatized the commons, fencing them off and thus cutting off access to the peasants.

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

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

Both are rich with opportunities for self-subsistence, expression, flourishing; ____ 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’ access to the commons was blocked, and this ____ 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 listening while our mind is racing in trying to ____ of something

clever. However, ____ clever is not being wise.

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

I am referring to an inattentive ____, 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 Emerson once said, ‘____ is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.’

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

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

It ____ been said that big egos have little ears.

The bank account analogy helps express why increased agricultural ____ 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, are taken out of the soil and ____ to wherever you are.

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

Either way, unless you and your waste are returned to the farm, there is a net ____ 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 ____ and plowing them under was a reasonably sustainable way to produce food.

But for eight billion people? Or for ____?

The food required to feed ____ of us 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 ____ 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 farm soil where they came.

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