2026 수특 영독연 15강 변형문제 (1-9번)

2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 15강

1 폭설로 인한 휴교 공지

Dear Parents/Guardians ____ Students of TBS High School,

Thank you for your ____ during the heavy snowstorm that dropped more than 40 cm of snow in Calbary.

This evening, the City of Calbary has issued a snowstorm alert and is ____ 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 ____ in mind, 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 ____ at home.

Thank ____ for your patience and understanding.


2 Santa Teresa 교회에서 생긴 일

By the time our family arrived ____ the Church of Santa Teresa, I tried to soak up the chapel’s beauty in silence.

However, I found a group of people singing loudly in the ____ of the chapel.

Why are these ____ ruining my trip?

Do ____ even know what this place is?

To make matters worse, they ____ dancing, too!

My moment with the chapel ____ completely ruined by their inconsiderate behavior.

Suddenly, some women in ____ group began motioning for me to join in.

I attempted to decline by ____ backward steps.

Still, they just kept stretching their hands ____ me.

I looked down at my daughter, who looked back at me ____ curiosity. I shrugged and smiled.

The next thing I knew, we were dancing together ____ 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 ____ of the trip.


3 자신의 성과 뒤에 존재하는 조력자들

For better or worse, we see the world through a singular lens ____ often causes us to fall victim to certain biases.

I’ve seen a number of entrepreneurs who built successful businesses and attributed all of their achievements to their own ____

These people tend to lack the self-reflection and objectivity to see that their accomplishments likely would not have ____ possible without the assistance of various people and institutions external to themselves.

It’s all too easy to see failures in our lives ____ purely or predominantly due to outside (external) forces, and successes in our lives as purely or predominantly due to inside (internal) forces.

Therefore, we must know that credit must ____ given and shared.

Apple’s success wasn’t exclusively Steve Jobs’s, nor ____ Microsoft’s success exclusively Bill Gates’s.

Santa has thousands of little helpers who allow him to achieve ____ impossible.

It takes a team of people (or elves) and a huge network ____ us to accomplish anything.


4 집단적 인식론

We tend to believe people ____ share our beliefs without taking the time to fact-check all the information.

With the emergence of ____ politics’, this has given rise to the recent phenomenon of fake news.

____ that doesn’t conform to 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 ____ and the media alike.

Jonathan Freedland in the Guardianterms it a new kind of cognitive bias called Tribal Epistemology, which ____ when the truth no longer corresponds to facts or evidence but rather when a specific assertion agrees with the viewpoint of the tribe or social group one belongs to.

The boundaries between ‘works ____ us’ or ‘good for us’ and ‘true’ have blurred.

Of course, this isn’t a new phenomenon; we have been sorting ourselves into tribes since the beginning ____ 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 ____ a good story.


5 모호함에 대처하는 자세

Ambiguity is an uncomfortable feeling for ____ people.

As such, it’s one that ____ tend to quickly misattribute, concluding that something must be wrong.

But in fact, ambiguity can be a productive, even positive ____

When we conduct research, ____ try 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, ____ knowledge can arise, so it is best to go slowly, think carefully, and enjoy the process of trying to find out what is going on.

Sadly, this love of ambiguity is ____ uncommon mindset.

Usually we want quick and clear answers, especially when we are ____

For some people, this antipathy to ambiguity contributes to ____ 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 ____ 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 and enjoy a state of ____


6 인공 지능에 대한 투자

____ leaders in companies, nonprofits, or governments invest in artificial intelligence, much of their attention goes to hiring machine learning experts or paying for tools.

But this misses ____ critical opportunity.

For organizations to get the most that they ____ 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 employee more likely ____ 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 ____ on the 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 with a team member for an ____ long time.

A calendar that learns patterns could ____ 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 ____ of the mind’.

By telling stories using words, music and sound effects, radio can engage the imagination to communicate ideas and images that create a kind of narrative uniquely experienced by ____ individual listener.

Through the omission of visual cues and by embracing the openness of the work, ____ 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 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.

____ fact the possibilities for radiophonic narrative 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 ____ in Harlem.

Her family ____ poor, but 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 ____ years before retiring.

At age 67, ____ was diagnosed with lung cancer, which required surgery to remove.

The surgery resulted in a 25 percent reduction in her breathing ability, but she would not ____ this stop her.

She became interested in the North Pole after visiting Canada and ____ pictures of polar bears.

In the spring of 2007, at the age ____ 75, she became the oldest woman and the first African-American woman to ski to the North Pole.

She reached the South Pole in 2011 at the age of 79, becoming the first African-American woman to ____ both poles.


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