2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 15강
1 폭설로 인한 휴교 공지
Dear Parents/Guardians and Students of TBS ____ School,
Thank you for your patience during the heavy snowstorm that ____ more than 40 cm of snow in Calbary.
This ____ the City of Calbary has issued a snowstorm alert and is encouraging residents to stay home.
At TBS High School, we are also facing several concerns: students may not be able to walk to ____ safely, and many school buses will likely be delayed or, in some cases, canceled.
With all of this in mind, we have made the decision to close our ____ on Tuesday, January 21.
Students may ____ work on previously assigned tasks or spend time reviewing material previously covered at home.
Thank you for your patience and ____
2 Santa Teresa 교회에서 생긴 일
By the time our family arrived at the Church of Santa Teresa, I tried to soak up the chapel’s beauty ____ silence.
However, I found a group of people singing loudly in the corner of ____ chapel.
____ are these people ruining my trip?
Do they even know ____ this place is?
To make matters worse, they started ____ too!
My moment with the chapel was completely ruined by ____ inconsiderate behavior.
Suddenly, some women ____ the group began motioning for me to join in.
____ attempted to decline by taking backward steps.
Still, they just kept stretching their ____ toward me.
I looked down at my daughter, who looked back at me ____ curiosity. I shrugged and smiled.
The next thing I knew, we were ____ together with huge smiles on our faces.
As I squeezed my daughter’s hand and did my best to keep time with the lively beat, my heart was filled ____ joy.
I knew that this would be my favorite memory of the ____
3 자신의 성과 뒤에 존재하는 조력자들
For better or worse, we see the world through a singular lens that often causes us to fall ____ to certain biases.
I’ve seen a number of entrepreneurs who built ____ businesses and attributed all of their achievements to their own ingenuity.
These people tend to lack the self-reflection ____ objectivity to see that their accomplishments likely would not have been possible without the assistance of various people and institutions external to themselves.
It’s all too easy to see failures in ____ lives as purely or predominantly due to outside (external) forces, and successes in our lives as purely or predominantly due to inside (internal) forces.
____ we must know that credit must be given and shared.
Apple’s success wasn’t exclusively ____ Jobs’s, nor was Microsoft’s success exclusively Bill Gates’s.
Santa has thousands of little helpers who allow ____ to achieve the impossible.
It takes a team of people (or elves) and a huge network for ____ to accomplish anything.
4 집단적 인식론
We tend to believe people who share our beliefs without taking the time ____ fact-check all the information.
With the emergence of ‘identity politics’, this has given rise to the ____ phenomenon of fake news.
Anything that doesn’t conform to your tribe’s views is rejected and ____ as fake news.
It is not always falsified information, but it is often opinions ____ differ hugely from our own that are labelled fake news by politicians and the media alike.
Jonathan Freedland in the Guardianterms it a new kind of cognitive bias called Tribal Epistemology, which is when the truth no longer corresponds to facts or evidence but rather when a specific assertion agrees ____ the viewpoint of the tribe or social group one belongs to.
____ boundaries between ‘works for us’ or ‘good for us’ and ‘true’ have blurred.
Of course, this isn’t a ____ phenomenon; we have been sorting ourselves into tribes since the beginning of human evolution.
It has just been ignited by the recent political climate, media and technology, and by our tendency to believe in stories and narratives rather than facts. Everyone loves a ____ story.
5 모호함에 대처하는 자세
Ambiguity is an uncomfortable feeling for most ____
As such, it’s one ____ we tend to quickly misattribute, concluding that something must be wrong.
But in fact, ambiguity can be a ____ even positive state.
When we conduct research, we ____ to encourage ourselves, our students, and our colleagues to enjoy a state of ambiguity.
The logic is that when we don’t know the answer, real knowledge can arise, so ____ is best to go slowly, think carefully, and enjoy the process of trying to find out what is going on.
Sadly, ____ love of ambiguity is an uncommon mindset.
Usually we want quick ____ clear answers, especially when we are stressed.
For ____ people, this antipathy to ambiguity contributes to their descent into misbelief.
The ability not to rush to conclusions, to keep multiple hypotheses in mind, and to remain open to new information and possibilities is key to not ____ sucked into misbelief.
We tend to admire and ____ out conviction and confidence.
But we would be better served if we learned to admire and enjoy a state ____ ambiguity.
6 인공 지능에 대한 투자
When leaders in companies, nonprofits, or governments invest in artificial intelligence, much of their attention ____ to hiring machine learning experts or paying for tools.
____ this misses a critical opportunity.
For organizations to ____ the most that they can from AI, they should also be investing in helping all of their team members to understand the technology better.
Understanding machine learning can make an ____ more likely to spot potential applications in their own work.
Many of the most promising uses for machine learning will be humdrum, and this is where technology can be at its most useful: saving people time, so that they can concentrate on ____ many tasks at which they outperform machines.
An executive assistant who has a better understanding of machine learning might suggest that calendar software learn more explicitly from patterns that develop over time, reminding them when their boss has not met ____ a team member for an unusually long time.
A calendar that learns patterns could give an executive assistant more time for the human specialties ____ the job, such as helping their boss to manage a team.
7 디지털 시대의 라디오의 가치
It’s a useful cliche, repeated by practitioners and radio educators alike, that radio is ‘theatre of the ____
By telling stories using words, music and sound ____ radio can engage the imagination to communicate ideas and images that create a kind of narrative uniquely experienced by each individual listener.
Through the omission of visual cues ____ by embracing the openness of the work, radio storytelling has the capacity to make personal connections, paint pictures with sound, and indeed create scenes that would be impossible in another context.
The capacity of audio as ____ medium for imaginative and compelling storytelling is undiminished in the digital age, although the production, distribution and consumption cultures and technologies through which those stories are mediated have radically changed.
In fact the possibilities for radiophonic narrative are in many ways expanded in ____ digital age, as research engineers, professionals and enthusiasts explore the parameters of new production processes, platforms and interactive opportunities, as well as opportunities for radio storytelling to be taken outside the realm of the radio professional.
9 탐험가 Barbara Hillary
Barbara Hillary was born ____ 1931 in New York City and raised in Harlem.
Her family was poor, ____ she was encouraged to read.
She majored in gerontology at the New School in New York City, and after graduating she became a nurse and worked for fifty-five years before ____
At age 67, Hillary was diagnosed with lung cancer, which required surgery to ____
The ____ resulted in a 25 percent reduction in her breathing ability, but she would not let this stop her.
She became interested in the ____ Pole after visiting Canada and taking pictures of polar bears.
In the spring of 2007, at the age of 75, she became the oldest woman and the first African-American woman ____ ski to the North Pole.
She reached the South Pole in 2011 at the age of 79, becoming ____ first African-American woman to reach both poles.