EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is said ____ never a mere repetition.
Even if one agrees word for word with something that has been said before, everything — the ____ the speaker, the circumstances, the addressee, and the meaning of what was said — has changed.
What one says is therefore in each case ____
Although most of our statements are unoriginal, they show through their ____ even unique, style (which can be dull, ugly, or trivial) that someone has appropriated and therewith personalized them.
Every sentence proves that the author has changed a received gift into a ____ of her own.
An analysis of what is one’s own might then reveal much of what ____ speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,
while at the same time disclosing how all these influences ____ converged into the unique results of what the author said.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is often the recognition ____ incompleteness.
In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt continuously swirling around you, a question rises ____ the surface of your awareness.
And in that moment of recognition, you might ____ to solve the mystery.
You engage in worrying, hoping against hope that you’ll finally nail down the unsolvable questions troubling ____ life.
Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a common thread running ____ many aspects of worrying.
The ____ for a neat and satisfying resolution frequently drives this behavior.
It’s understandable — it’s likely born out of a tireless commitment to ____ better, driven by a willingness to pursue the important things in your life — but worrying begins to deviate from that path.
Despite your good intentions, you get ____ in thought rather than called to action.
3 코드를 작성하는 엔지니어와 그 영향력
In the early days of the commercial internet, scholars ____ that, in cyberspace, computer code operated as a kind of ‘law’.
Not law as we know it — public rules decided by legislators and judges — but a ____ kind of law, embedded in the tech itself.
Whenever we use an app, platform, smartphone or computer, we have no choice but ____ follow the strict rules that are coded into these technologies.
Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that you cannot ____ this system without the correct password.
Hence ____ young man who lost more than ＄200 million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.
____ rules are more controversial.
In late 2020, one social media platform ____ it impossible for users to share a controversial article containing allegations of corruption about a public figure’s son, on the basis that it violated the platform’s rules against sharing hacked material.
As more and more of our actions, interactions and ____ are mediated through digital technology, those who write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.
____ engineers are becoming social engineers.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
It wasn’t really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to ____ into all areas of business.
As entities were privatized, markets opened up and competition became fiercer, ____ the need to differentiate your business became greater.
Utilities, telecoms providers, banks, insurance companies and airlines were ____ now enthusiastically embracing the power of branding.
As brand owners fought ____ space in your mind, advertising became incredibly influential.
The focus was on imbuing products and services with meaning so that you as the customer ____ surround yourself with the brands that best represented you — the very notion of shopping as a form of personal expression.
Even businesses serving other businesses began to realize that having a brand was ____ important business support.
Brands were now seen as more than just a logo or a tagline; they were seen as ____ to create meaning.
5 인간을 오도할 수 있는 왜곡된 감각 현상
____ are many ordinary, daily-life situations like the following example.
A straight stick put ____ water looks bent; yet we do not believe it has become bent just because it was immersed in water, which is an easily penetrable liquid.
Railroad tracks seem to converge in the distance, and yet when we walk to the spot ____ they apparently merged we find them to be parallel.
The wheels of automobiles seen on television seem to be going backward when the automobile is ____ to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.
Such examples of distorted perception ____ be multiplied endlessly. Each of these sense phenomena is thus misleading in some way.
If human beings were to accept the world ____ being exactly how it looks, they would be deceived as to how things really are.
They would think the stick in ____ really to be bent, the writing on pages really to be reversed, and the wheels really to be going backward.
6 선배 학자들의 지원과 안내
____ to an ancient Greek proverb, “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
Likewise, ____ academic culture grows great when senior scholars perform acts of generosity for junior academics who may never know their names.
Literary scholar and poet Lesley Wheeler remains “endlessly grateful” to the two anonymous readers whose thoughtful responses to her first book manuscript set her on the ____ to becoming a successful scholar:
“They told me ____ what was wrong with the book, but they also found the time to praise it; and that was enough encouragement.”
Having benefited from the welcoming shelter of shade trees ____ by others, Wheeler has little patience for “cranky” referees who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.
She takes care to ensure that ____ own feedback to colleagues and students is always gracious and constructive:
“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed at my work ____ something that I want to pay back.”