2026 수특 영독연 3강 변형문제 (1~6번)

What is ____ is never a 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, and the meaning ____ what was said — has changed.

____ one says is therefore in each case unique.

Although most of our statements are unoriginal, they ____ through their particular, 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 ____ into a thought of her own.

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

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

Worry is often the ____ of incompleteness.

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

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

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

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

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

It’s understandable — it’s likely born out of a tireless commitment to do better, driven by ____ willingness to pursue the important things in your life — but worrying begins to deviate from that path.

Despite your good intentions, you ____ trapped in thought rather than called to action.

In the early days of the commercial internet, scholars discovered that, in cyberspace, ____ 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, ____ in the tech itself.

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

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

Hence the young ____ 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 media platform made it impossible for users to ____ 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 ____ those 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 ____ began to extend into all areas of business.

As entities were privatized, markets opened up and competition became fiercer, so the need to differentiate ____ business became greater.

Utilities, telecoms providers, banks, insurance ____ and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing the power of branding.

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

The focus was on imbuing products and services with meaning so that you as the customer could ____ 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 ____ an important business support.

Brands were now seen as more than ____ a logo or a tagline; they were seen as opportunities to create meaning.

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

A straight stick put in ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ going backward when the automobile is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.

Such examples of distorted perception could be multiplied endlessly. Each of these ____ phenomena is thus misleading in some way.

If human beings were to accept the ____ as being exactly how it looks, they would be deceived as to how things really are.

They would think the stick in water really to be bent, the writing on pages really to be ____ and the wheels really to be going backward.

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

Likewise, an academic culture ____ great when senior scholars perform acts of generosity for junior academics who may never know their names.

Literary scholar and poet ____ 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 scholar:

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

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

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

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