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