2026 수특 영독연 3강 변형문제 (1~6번)

What is said is never a mere ____.

Even if one ____ word for word with something that has been said before, everything — the world, 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 particular, even unique, style (____ can be dull, ugly, or trivial) that someone has appropriated and therewith personalized them.

Every sentence ____ that the author has changed a received gift into a thought of her own.

An analysis of what is one’s ____ might then reveal much of what the speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,

while at the ____ time disclosing how all these influences have converged into the unique results of what the author said.

Worry is often the ____ of incompleteness.

In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt continuously swirling around ____, a question rises to the surface of your awareness.

And in that moment of recognition, you ____ choose to solve the mystery.

You engage in worrying, hoping against hope that ____ finally nail down the unsolvable questions troubling your life.

Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a ____ thread running through many aspects of worrying.

The quest for a neat and satisfying resolution frequently ____ this behavior.

It’s understandable — it’s likely born out of a tireless commitment to do better, ____ 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.

In the early days of the commercial internet, ____ discovered 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 different kind of law, embedded in the tech ____.

Whenever we use an app, platform, smartphone or computer, we have no choice but to follow the strict rules that are coded into ____ technologies.

Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that you cannot access this ____ without the correct password.

Hence the young man who lost more than ＄200 million because he ____ remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.

Other rules are ____ controversial.

In ____ 2020, one social media 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 and transactions are mediated through digital technology, ____ who write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.

Software engineers are becoming social ____.

It wasn’t really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend ____ 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, ____, insurance companies and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing the power of branding.

As brand owners fought for ____ in your mind, advertising became incredibly influential.

The focus was on imbuing products and services with meaning so that you as the customer could surround yourself with the ____ 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 just a logo or a tagline; they were seen as ____ to create meaning.

____ are many ordinary, daily-life situations like the following example.

A straight stick put in water looks bent; yet we do not believe it has ____ bent just because it was immersed in water, which is an easily penetrable liquid.

Railroad tracks seem to ____ in the distance, and yet when we walk to the spot where they apparently merged we find them to be parallel.

The wheels of automobiles seen on television seem to be ____ backward when the automobile is seen to be moving forward. 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 ____ were to accept the world as 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.

According to an ancient Greek proverb, “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never ____.”

Likewise, an academic culture grows great when senior scholars perform acts of ____ 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 to becoming a successful ____:

“They told me bluntly what was wrong with the book, but they also found the ____ to praise it; and that was enough encouragement.”

Having benefited from the welcoming shelter of shade trees planted by others, Wheeler has little ____ for “cranky” referees who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.

She takes care to ____ that her own feedback to colleagues and students is always gracious and constructive:

“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed at my ____ is something that I want to pay back.”