2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 12강
1 영토의 중요성
Must societies ‘reproduce’ their ____
On the one hand, history is full of territorial conflicts; a social system that has its territory removed is ____ to fail.
What role does the territory play in the metabolic reproduction ____ the social system’s population?
Of ____ significance is 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 so-called ‘free goods’, the ecosystem services within the territory (for example, ____ air and water).
In most cases, however, it means more than ____ 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 ____ within its territory, it must ensure that their metabolic reproduction is possible.
The ____ is therefore meaningful in containing natural resources which economic processes can appropriate.
____ also provides an outlet for the depositing of waste 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 some situations where physical barriers are both ____ and necessary for the protection of the worker.
There are classic examples of this within the prison service and of how arrangements ____ be made for the safety of visitors.
But many reception areas for public services have, from time to time, employed security screens in the ____ 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 is ____ expected.
____ people find such screens to be so impersonal that they provoke a suspicious, even aggressive, response.
They much prefer to create an open, warm and human environment that respects the individual and encourages them in turn to ____ respectfully towards the worker.
It is also possible ____ screens 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 examples ____ this.
3 암호 해독과 설명의 차이
Decoding is a verbal activity that regards its object as a set of signals; each signal carries a specific meaning ____ by a code.
The object of decoding may be ____ or nonverbal.
The nonverbal object, however, becomes in the process of decoding analogous to verbal objects, that is, it is viewed ____ a set of signals.
Decoding an enemy’s message begins with the ____ that the apparently random signals conceal a coherent meaning.
As is the case with ____ decoding aims to unify disparate facts.
While explanation ____ 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 ____ may or may not be written in the same code as the first.
The decoder cannot rely on seemingly similar cases to provide ____ right code — the apparent similarity may be misleading.
By ____ similar cases must be 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 ____ cases, in contrast to explanation which relies on consistent rules across similar 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 if its concentration ____ the blood falls, breathing is inhibited.
It is possible to demonstrate this for yourself. You will find you are able to hold your breath for longer if you breathe very rapidly for a ____ time beforehand.
(Do not do ____ for more than a minute or you may become dizzy.)
The reason is ____ breath-holding is terminated not by the demand for oxygen but rather by the falling carbon dioxide concentration in the blood.
When this reaches a critical level ____ stimulates you to take a breath.
Hyperventilation before holding your breath blows off carbon dioxide from the body and enables a longer period to go by before carbon dioxide ____ up to a level sufficient to stimulate breathing.
The opposing drives from oxygen and ____ dioxide explain why no change in breathing occurs at altitudes of less than 3000 metres.
5-6 교육 분야에서 권력을 행사하는 정책
It is perhaps self-evident that the outworking of policy is seen in the exercise ____ power if it compels individuals to behave in a way which they would not have chosen to do.
____ can be used to highlight power relationships, but it can also allow for depersonalisation of power and decision-making:
a leader could imply that while they don’t really agree with a particular course of action, the policy dictates it and ____ it must be done.
In the same way policy can act as the ____ of authority such that hierarchy is unnecessary:
a group ____ individuals may resort to policy to guide their decision-making when there is no established authority figure to set their direction.
Ultimately those ____ define policy exert power over those who follow policy and, in education at least, it is rare that policy is determined collectively:
at best, leaders are elected democratically ____ that they may set policy for the electorate.
There is therefore an inevitable reliance on a political elite, and a consequent hierarchy of ____
A frequently seen example of policy as power in ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ that inadequate uniform does 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 have to wear school ____ because that is what the policy says.