2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 15강
1 폭설로 인한 휴교 공지
Dear Parents/Guardians ____ Students of TBS High School,
Thank you for your patience during the heavy snowstorm ____ dropped more than 40 cm of snow in Calbary.
This evening, the City of Calbary has issued a snowstorm ____ and is encouraging residents to stay home.
At TBS High School, we are also facing several concerns: students may ____ be able to walk to school 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 school on ____ January 21.
Students may either work on previously assigned tasks or spend time reviewing material previously covered at ____
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 ____ group of people singing loudly in the corner of the chapel.
Why are these people ruining my ____
Do they even ____ what this place is?
To make matters worse, they started ____ too!
My ____ with the chapel was completely ruined by their inconsiderate behavior.
Suddenly, some women in the group began motioning for ____ to join in.
I attempted to ____ by taking backward steps.
Still, they just kept stretching their ____ toward me.
I looked ____ at my daughter, who looked back at me with curiosity. I shrugged and smiled.
The next thing I knew, we were dancing together with huge smiles on ____ faces.
As I squeezed my daughter’s hand and did my best ____ keep time with the lively beat, my heart was filled with joy.
I knew that this would be ____ favorite memory of the trip.
3 자신의 성과 뒤에 존재하는 조력자들
For better or worse, we see ____ world through a singular lens that 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 ____ 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 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 must know that ____ must 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 ____ who allow him to achieve the impossible.
It takes a team of people (or ____ and a huge network for us to accomplish anything.
4 집단적 인식론
We tend ____ believe people who share our beliefs without taking the time to fact-check all the information.
With the emergence of ‘identity politics’, this ____ given rise to the recent phenomenon of fake news.
Anything that doesn’t conform to your tribe’s views is rejected and labelled as ____ news.
It is not always falsified information, but it is often ____ that 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 ____ when a specific assertion agrees with the viewpoint of the tribe or social group one belongs to.
The boundaries between ‘works for us’ or ‘good ____ us’ and ‘true’ have blurred.
Of course, this isn’t a new phenomenon; we ____ been sorting ourselves into 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 feeling ____ most people.
As such, it’s one ____ we tend to quickly misattribute, concluding that something must be wrong.
But in fact, ____ can be a productive, even positive state.
When we conduct research, we try to encourage ourselves, our students, ____ our 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 ____ an uncommon mindset.
Usually we want quick and ____ answers, especially when we are stressed.
For some people, this ____ 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 ____ possibilities is key to not getting sucked into misbelief.
We tend to admire and seek ____ conviction 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 machine learning experts or ____ for tools.
But this misses a ____ opportunity.
For organizations to get the most that they can from AI, they should ____ be investing in helping all of their team members to understand the technology better.
Understanding machine learning can make an employee more likely to ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ educators alike, that radio is ‘theatre of the mind’.
By telling stories using words, music ____ 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 ____ 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 in the digital age, although the production, distribution and consumption cultures and technologies through which those stories ____ 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 ____ in 1931 in New York City and raised in Harlem.
Her family was poor, but she was encouraged ____ 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 ____ before retiring.
At age 67, ____ was diagnosed with lung cancer, which required surgery to remove.
The surgery resulted in a 25 percent reduction in ____ 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 ____ 2007, 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 ____ of 79, becoming the first African-American woman to reach both poles.