EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is said is never ____ mere repetition.
Even if one agrees word for word with something that has been said before, everything — the world, the speaker, the circumstances, the addressee, ____ the meaning of what was said — has changed.
____ one says is therefore in each case unique.
Although most of our statements are unoriginal, they show through their particular, even unique, style (which can be dull, ugly, or trivial) that someone has appropriated ____ therewith personalized them.
Every sentence proves that the author has changed a received ____ into a thought of her own.
An analysis of what is one’s own might then reveal much of what the speaker has ____ from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,
while at the same time disclosing how all these influences have ____ into the unique results of what the author said.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is often ____ recognition of incompleteness.
In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt continuously swirling around you, a question rises to the surface of your ____
And in that moment of recognition, you ____ choose to solve the mystery.
You engage in worrying, hoping ____ hope that you’ll finally nail down the unsolvable questions troubling your life.
Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, ____ a common thread running through many aspects of worrying.
The quest for a ____ and satisfying resolution frequently drives this behavior.
It’s understandable — it’s likely ____ out of a tireless commitment to do 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, ____ get trapped 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 ____ different kind of law, embedded in the tech itself.
Whenever we use an app, platform, smartphone or computer, we ____ no choice but to follow the strict rules that are coded into these technologies.
Some ____ are commonplace, like the rule that you cannot access this system without the correct password.
____ the young man who lost more than ＄200 million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.
Other rules ____ more controversial.
In late 2020, one social ____ platform made 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 ____ transactions are mediated through digital technology, those who write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.
Software ____ are becoming social engineers.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
It wasn’t really until the ____ ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend into all areas of business.
As entities were privatized, markets opened up and competition became fiercer, so the need to differentiate your business ____ greater.
Utilities, telecoms providers, banks, insurance companies and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing the ____ of branding.
As brand owners fought for space in ____ mind, advertising became incredibly influential.
The focus was on imbuing products ____ services with meaning so that you as the customer could 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 an ____ business support.
Brands were now seen as more than ____ a logo or a tagline; they were seen as opportunities to create meaning.
5 인간을 오도할 수 있는 왜곡된 감각 현상
There are many ordinary, daily-life situations ____ the following example.
A straight stick put in water looks bent; yet we do not believe it has become ____ 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 ____ where 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 seen to be moving ____ Yet this is impossible.
Such examples of distorted ____ could be multiplied endlessly. Each of these sense phenomena is thus misleading in some way.
If human beings were to accept the world as being exactly how ____ looks, they would be deceived as to how things really are.
They would think ____ stick in water 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
According to an ancient Greek ____ “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
____ an 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 path ____ becoming a successful scholar:
“They told me bluntly what was wrong with the book, but they also found the time to praise ____ and that was enough encouragement.”
Having benefited from the ____ shelter of shade trees planted by others, Wheeler has little patience for “cranky” referees who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.
She takes care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and students ____ always gracious and constructive:
“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed at my work is something that I ____ to pay back.”