2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 15강
1 폭설로 인한 휴교 공지
Dear Parents/Guardians and Students of ____ High School,
Thank you for your patience during the heavy snowstorm that dropped more than 40 cm of ____ in Calbary.
This evening, the City of Calbary has issued a snowstorm alert and is encouraging residents to ____ 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 delayed or, in ____ cases, canceled.
With all of this in mind, we ____ made the decision to close our school on Tuesday, January 21.
Students ____ either work on previously assigned tasks or spend time reviewing material previously covered at home.
Thank you for your ____ and understanding.
2 Santa Teresa 교회에서 생긴 일
By the time our family arrived at the Church of ____ Teresa, I tried to soak up the chapel’s beauty in silence.
However, I found a group of ____ singing loudly in the corner of the chapel.
Why are these people ____ my trip?
Do they even know what this ____ is?
To make matters worse, they started ____, too!
My moment with the ____ was completely ruined by their inconsiderate behavior.
Suddenly, some ____ in the group began motioning for me to join in.
I attempted to decline by taking ____ steps.
Still, they just kept stretching their ____ toward me.
I looked down at my daughter, who looked back at me with curiosity. I shrugged and ____.
The next thing I ____, we were dancing together with huge smiles on our faces.
As I squeezed my daughter’s hand and did my best to ____ time with the lively beat, my heart was filled with joy.
I knew that this would be my ____ memory of the trip.
3 자신의 성과 뒤에 존재하는 조력자들
For better or worse, we see the world through a singular lens that often causes us to fall victim to ____ biases.
I’ve seen a number of entrepreneurs who built successful businesses and attributed all of their achievements to their ____ ingenuity.
These people tend to lack the self-reflection and objectivity to see that their ____ 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 our lives as purely or predominantly due to outside (external) ____, and successes in our lives as purely or predominantly due to inside (internal) forces.
Therefore, we must know that credit ____ be given and shared.
Apple’s ____ wasn’t exclusively Steve Jobs’s, nor was Microsoft’s success exclusively Bill Gates’s.
Santa has thousands of little helpers who allow him to achieve the ____.
It takes a team of people (or ____) and a huge network for us to accomplish anything.
4 집단적 인식론
We tend to believe people who share our beliefs ____ taking the time to fact-check all the information.
With the emergence of ‘identity politics’, this has given rise to the recent phenomenon of fake ____.
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 that differ hugely from our own that are labelled fake news by politicians and the media ____.
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 tribe or social group ____ belongs to.
The boundaries between ‘works for us’ or ‘good for us’ and ‘true’ ____ blurred.
Of course, this isn’t a new phenomenon; we have been sorting ourselves ____ tribes since the beginning of human evolution.
It has ____ 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 good story.
5 모호함에 대처하는 자세
Ambiguity is an uncomfortable ____ for most people.
As such, it’s one that we tend to quickly ____, concluding that something must be wrong.
But in fact, ambiguity can be a productive, even positive ____.
When we conduct research, we try to encourage ourselves, our ____, 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.
____, this love of ambiguity is an uncommon mindset.
____ we want quick and clear answers, especially when we are stressed.
For some people, this antipathy to ____ contributes to their descent into misbelief.
The ability not to rush to conclusions, to keep ____ 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 conviction and ____.
But we would be better served if we ____ to admire and enjoy a state of ambiguity.
6 인공 지능에 대한 투자
When leaders in companies, nonprofits, or governments invest in artificial ____, much of their attention goes to hiring machine learning experts or paying for tools.
But this ____ a critical opportunity.
For organizations to get the most that they can from AI, they should also be investing in helping all of their team ____ 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 ____: saving people time, so that they can concentrate on the many tasks at which they outperform machines.
An executive assistant who ____ 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 unusually long time.
A calendar that learns patterns could give an executive assistant more ____ 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 ____ educators alike, that radio is ‘theatre of the mind’.
By ____ 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 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 ____, 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 in the digital age, although the production, distribution and consumption cultures and technologies through which those ____ are mediated have radically changed.
In fact the possibilities for radiophonic narrative are in many ____ 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 ____ and raised in Harlem.
Her family was ____, 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 fifty-five years before ____.
At age 67, Hillary was diagnosed with ____ cancer, which required surgery to remove.
The surgery resulted in a 25 percent reduction in her breathing ability, but she would not let this ____ her.
She became interested in the North Pole after ____ Canada and taking pictures of polar bears.
In the spring of ____, at the age of 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.