2026 수특 영독연 11강 변형문제 (7-12번)

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

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

First of all, storms, ____, floods, torrential rains, 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, ____ fairly easily up and move to some other area where the damage was not so great.

But, more importantly, the ____ 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 more ____ to natural disasters;

in ____, natural 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 ____ than two thousand colors in its commercial palette.

Many of these are labeled with unique (and decidedly nonbasic) English names: ____ 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.

Even in ____ 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 ____ people use will be one hundred times less than that again.

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

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

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

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

As global demand for wool to be used in ____ 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 ____ land that 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 ____ (e.g., platform owners who charge fees for access or use).

In Britain, as the demand for wool increased, ____’ access 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 be our narcissistic ____.

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

____. However, being 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 ____ 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 Emerson once said, ‘There is a ____ 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 and ____ their existence.

It has been said that ____ egos have little ears.

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

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

Either way, unless you and your ____ are returned to the farm, there is 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 a ____ sustainable way to produce food.

But for eight ____ people? Or for ten?

The food ____ to feed all 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 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.

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