2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 12강
1 영토의 중요성
Must societies ‘reproduce’ ____ territory?
On the one hand, ____ is full of territorial conflicts; a social system that has its territory removed is doomed to fail.
What role does the territory play in the ____ reproduction of the social system’s population?
Of key significance ____ the fact that territory offers the population a legitimate physical ‘common living space’, that is, it serves as a ‘repository for humans and their infrastructures’.
This ‘repository function’ provides the opportunity to participate in the consumption of the ____ ‘free goods’, the ecosystem services within the territory (for example, clean air and water).
In most cases, however, it means more than this. The state is in some sense answerable to the ‘common ____ and thus to ensuring conditions supporting the reproduction of its human subjects.
In any case, at least within its territory, it ____ ensure that their metabolic reproduction is possible.
The ____ is therefore meaningful in containing natural resources which economic processes can appropriate.
It also provides an outlet for the depositing of ____ products from these processes, and it is a source of various non-provisioning ecosystem services.
2 직원 보호를 위한 물리적 장벽의 필요성과 문제점
There are ____ situations where physical barriers are both sensible and necessary for the protection of the worker.
There are classic examples of this within the ____ service and of how arrangements can be made for the safety of visitors.
But many reception areas for public services have, from ____ to time, employed security screens in the hope of discouraging violence or abusive behaviour and for the protection of staff.
These have not always worked, however, and have sometimes given the message that violent behaviour ____ being expected.
Some people find such screens to be so impersonal that they provoke a suspicious, ____ aggressive, response.
They much prefer to create an open, warm and human environment that respects ____ individual and encourages them in turn to behave respectfully towards the worker.
It is also possible that ____ can put confidentiality at risk if people feel that they have to speak more loudly in order to make themselves heard.
Screens in GP surgeries are good ____ of this.
3 암호 해독과 설명의 차이
Decoding is a verbal activity that regards its object as a set of signals; each signal ____ a specific meaning determined by a code.
The object of decoding may be verbal ____ nonverbal.
The nonverbal object, however, becomes in ____ process of decoding analogous to verbal objects, that is, it is viewed as a set of signals.
Decoding an ____ message begins with the belief that the apparently random signals conceal a coherent meaning.
As is the case ____ explanation, decoding aims to unify disparate facts.
While explanation includes the particular covered by a general ____ decoding substitutes one element with another in accordance with a rule that may be individual to the particular case:
the enemy’s second message may or may ____ be written in the same code as the first.
The decoder cannot rely on seemingly similar cases to provide the right ____ — the apparent similarity may be misleading.
By contrast, similar cases must be similarly explained, because explanations assume general, coherent rules common to all relevant ____
Decoding is the process of interpreting signals, often requiring specific rules to particular cases, in contrast to ____ which relies on consistent rules across similar cases.
4 이산화 탄소와 산소의 반대 작용
Carbon dioxide is a ____ regulator of breathing (it acts on a different set of chemoreceptors, found in the brain) and if its concentration in the blood falls, breathing is inhibited.
It is possible to demonstrate this for yourself. You will find you are able to hold ____ breath for longer if you breathe very rapidly for a short time beforehand.
(Do not do ____ for more than a minute or you may become dizzy.)
The reason is that breath-holding is terminated not by the demand for oxygen but rather ____ the falling carbon dioxide concentration in the blood.
When this reaches ____ critical level it stimulates you to take a breath.
Hyperventilation before holding your breath blows ____ carbon dioxide from the body and enables a longer period to go by before carbon dioxide builds up to a level sufficient to stimulate breathing.
The opposing drives from oxygen and carbon dioxide explain why no change in breathing occurs at altitudes of ____ than 3000 metres.
5-6 교육 분야에서 권력을 행사하는 정책
It is perhaps self-evident that the outworking of policy ____ seen in the exercise of power if it compels individuals to behave in a way which they would not have chosen to do.
Policy can be used to ____ power relationships, but it can also allow for depersonalisation of power and decision-making:
____ leader could imply that while they don’t really agree with a particular course of action, the policy dictates it and therefore it must be done.
In the same way policy can act ____ the source of authority such that hierarchy is unnecessary:
a group of individuals may resort to policy to guide ____ decision-making when there is no established authority figure to set their direction.
Ultimately those who define policy exert power over those who follow policy and, in education at least, it ____ rare that policy is determined collectively:
at best, leaders are elected ____ so that they may set policy for the electorate.
There is ____ an inevitable reliance on a political elite, and a consequent hierarchy of power.
A frequently seen example of policy as power ____ schools is uniform.
It is for the ‘governing board’ of a school to determine if it has a uniform, and if so what it is, but parents and children have a duty to comply, and school staff ____ a duty to enforce it.
Countless children will have discovered that they cannot appeal to the logic that inadequate uniform does not affect their learning, ____ nor can they resort to any individual to plead their case, for the power rests within the policy itself:
it is sufficient to say ____ you have to wear school uniforms because that is what the policy says.