2026 수특 영독연 11강 변형문제 (7-12번)

A successful farming ____ could support in a small region 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 ____ and other severe weather anomalies could be disastrous for a farming community while posing only a major nuisance to foragers.

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

But, more importantly, the natural home they depended on was much less likely to be severely ____ 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 more defenseless to ____ disasters;

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

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

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

Many of these are labeled with unique (and decidedly nonbasic) English names: violet posy, wing commander, ____ 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 ____ over 2 million distinctions in color that the human 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 times less than that ____

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

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 of land-owning nobility but were accessible for use by ____

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

As global demand for wool ____ be 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 ____ off from land that had been their primary resource for survival for centuries.

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

Both are rich with opportunities for self-subsistence, expression, flourishing; both are full of challenges from enclosure ____ 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 resembles contemporary situations we ____ 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 think of ____

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 ____ 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 Emerson once said, ____ is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.’

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

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

It has been said that big egos ____ little ears.

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

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

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

When ____ 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 a reasonably sustainable way to produce food.

But ____ eight billion people? Or for ten?

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

This means ____ 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 farm soil where they came.

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