2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 15강
1 폭설로 인한 휴교 공지
Dear Parents/Guardians and Students of TBS High ____
Thank you for your patience during the heavy snowstorm that dropped more than 40 cm of snow ____ Calbary.
This evening, the City ____ 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 school safely, and many school buses will likely be ____ or, in some cases, canceled.
With all of this in ____ we have made the decision to close our school on Tuesday, January 21.
Students may either work on previously assigned tasks or spend time reviewing material previously covered ____ home.
Thank you for your patience ____ understanding.
2 Santa Teresa 교회에서 생긴 일
By the time our ____ arrived at the Church of Santa Teresa, I tried to soak up the chapel’s beauty in silence.
However, I found ____ group of people singing loudly in the corner of the chapel.
Why are these people ruining my ____
Do they even know ____ this place is?
To make matters worse, ____ started dancing, too!
My moment with the chapel was completely ruined by their ____ behavior.
Suddenly, some women in the group began motioning for me ____ join in.
I attempted to ____ by taking backward steps.
Still, they just kept stretching their hands toward ____
I looked down at my daughter, who looked back at me with curiosity. I shrugged ____ smiled.
The next thing I knew, we were dancing together with huge smiles on ____ faces.
As ____ squeezed my daughter’s hand and did my best to keep time with the lively beat, my heart was filled with joy.
I knew that this would be my favorite memory of ____ trip.
3 자신의 성과 뒤에 존재하는 조력자들
For better or worse, we see the world through a singular lens that often causes us ____ fall victim to certain biases.
I’ve seen a number of entrepreneurs who ____ successful businesses and attributed all of their achievements to their own ingenuity.
These people tend to lack the self-reflection and objectivity to see that their accomplishments likely would not have been possible ____ the assistance of various people and institutions external to themselves.
It’s all too easy to see failures in our lives as purely or predominantly due to outside (external) forces, and successes in our lives ____ purely or predominantly due to inside (internal) forces.
Therefore, we ____ know that credit must be given and shared.
Apple’s success wasn’t exclusively Steve ____ nor was Microsoft’s success exclusively Bill Gates’s.
Santa has thousands of ____ helpers who allow him to achieve the impossible.
It takes ____ team of people (or elves) and a huge network for us to accomplish anything.
4 집단적 인식론
We tend to believe people who ____ our beliefs without taking the time to fact-check all the information.
With the emergence of ‘identity politics’, this has given rise to the recent phenomenon of ____ news.
Anything that doesn’t conform ____ your tribe’s views is rejected and labelled as fake news.
It is not always falsified information, but it is often opinions that differ hugely from our own that are labelled fake news by politicians and ____ 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 with the viewpoint of the ____ or social group one belongs to.
The boundaries between ‘works for ____ or ‘good for us’ and ‘true’ have blurred.
Of ____ this isn’t a new 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 ____ and narratives rather than facts. Everyone loves a good story.
5 모호함에 대처하는 자세
Ambiguity is ____ uncomfortable feeling for most people.
As such, it’s one ____ we tend to quickly misattribute, concluding that something must be wrong.
But in fact, ambiguity can be a productive, ____ positive state.
When we conduct research, we try to encourage ourselves, our students, and ____ colleagues to enjoy a state of ambiguity.
The logic is that when we don’t know the answer, real knowledge can arise, so it is best to go slowly, think carefully, and enjoy the process of trying to find out what is ____ on.
Sadly, this love of ambiguity is an ____ mindset.
Usually we want quick and clear answers, especially when ____ are stressed.
For some people, this antipathy to ambiguity contributes to their descent ____ misbelief.
The ____ not to rush to conclusions, to keep multiple hypotheses in mind, and to remain open to new information and possibilities is key to not getting sucked into misbelief.
We tend to admire and seek out ____ and confidence.
But we would be better served if we learned to admire ____ enjoy a state of ambiguity.
6 인공 지능에 대한 투자
When leaders in companies, nonprofits, or governments invest in artificial intelligence, much of their attention goes to hiring ____ learning experts or paying for tools.
But this misses ____ critical opportunity.
For organizations to get the most that they can from AI, they should also be investing in helping all of their team members to ____ the technology better.
Understanding machine learning can ____ an employee 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 the many tasks at which they ____ 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, ____ them when their boss has not met with a team member for an unusually long time.
A ____ that learns patterns could give an executive assistant more time for the human specialties of 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 ____ mind’.
By telling stories using words, music and sound effects, radio can engage ____ imagination to communicate ideas and images that create a kind of narrative uniquely experienced by each individual listener.
Through the omission of visual cues and 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 ____ be impossible in another context.
The capacity of audio as a medium for imaginative and compelling storytelling is undiminished ____ 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 ____ are in many ways expanded in the 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 in 1931 in New York City and raised ____ 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 ____ and worked for fifty-five years before retiring.
At age 67, Hillary was diagnosed with lung cancer, which required surgery to ____
The surgery resulted in a 25 percent ____ in her breathing ability, but she would not let this stop her.
She became interested in the North Pole ____ 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 to ski to ____ North Pole.
She reached the South Pole in ____ at the age of 79, becoming the first African-American woman to reach both poles.