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

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

But, more importantly, the natural home they depended on was much ____ 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 ____ themselves more defenseless to natural disasters;

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

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

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

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

But even allowing nonbasic terms and even allowing the highly specialized vocabulary of the ____ 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 of the discernible ____ 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, think ____.

In Britain, large open areas of land known as the commons were the ____ 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 raise small ____ 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 increase wool production, so they privatized the commons, fencing them off and thus cutting off access to the ____.

By this process of the enclosure of the commons, peasants were cut off from ____ 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 and landlords (e.g., platform owners ____ charge fees for access or use).

In Britain, as the demand for wool ____, peasants’ 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 ____ to be our narcissistic disposition.

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

____. However, being clever is not being wise.

In addition, to exacerbate our narcissistic tendencies, there is also the ____ 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 ____ becoming impatient, wishing to get rid of the other person.

As the philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson ____ 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 quite ____.

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

It has ____ said that big egos have little ears.

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

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

Either way, unless you and your waste are returned to the ____, 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 reasonably sustainable way to produce ____.

But for ____ 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 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 farm ____ where they came.

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