EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is said is never a mere ____
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 and ____ personalized them.
Every ____ proves that the author has changed a received gift 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 into the unique results of what ____ author said.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is often the recognition of ____
In a world marred by uncertainty, ____ continuously swirling around you, a question rises to the surface of your awareness.
And in that moment of recognition, ____ might choose to solve the mystery.
You engage in worrying, hoping against hope that you’ll finally nail ____ the unsolvable questions troubling your life.
____ or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a common thread running through 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 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, you get trapped in thought rather than called ____ action.
3 코드를 작성하는 엔지니어와 그 영향력
In the early days of the ____ internet, scholars 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 ____ kind of law, embedded in the tech itself.
Whenever we use an app, platform, ____ or computer, we have no choice but to follow the strict rules that are coded into these technologies.
Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that ____ cannot access this system without the correct password.
Hence the young man who lost more ____ ＄200 million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.
Other ____ are more controversial.
In late 2020, ____ 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, those who write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of ____ live.
Software engineers are becoming ____ engineers.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
____ wasn’t really until the late ’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 ____ differentiate your business became greater.
Utilities, telecoms providers, banks, insurance companies and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing ____ power of branding.
As brand owners fought for space in your mind, ____ became incredibly influential.
The focus was on imbuing products and services with meaning so that you as the customer could surround ____ 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 important business ____
Brands were now seen as more than just a logo or a tagline; they were ____ as opportunities to create meaning.
5 인간을 오도할 수 있는 왜곡된 감각 현상
There ____ many ordinary, daily-life situations like the following example.
A straight stick put in water ____ 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 where they apparently merged we find them to be ____
The wheels of automobiles seen on television seem to be going backward when ____ automobile is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.
Such examples of distorted perception could be multiplied endlessly. Each ____ these sense phenomena is thus misleading in some way.
If human beings were to accept the world as being exactly how it looks, they would be deceived as to how things ____ are.
They would think the stick in water really to be bent, the ____ on pages really to be reversed, and the wheels really to be going backward.
6 선배 학자들의 지원과 안내
According to an ancient Greek proverb, ____ society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
Likewise, an academic culture grows great when senior scholars perform acts of generosity for junior academics ____ 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 ____ path to becoming a successful scholar:
“They told ____ bluntly what was wrong with the book, but they also found the time to praise it; and that was enough encouragement.”
Having ____ from the welcoming shelter of shade trees planted by others, Wheeler has little patience for “cranky” referees who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.
____ takes care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and students is always gracious and constructive:
“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed at ____ work is something that I want to pay back.”