EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is said is ____ 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 ____, and the meaning of what was said — has changed.
What one says is therefore in ____ case unique.
____ 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 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 ____ the speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,
while at the same ____ disclosing how all these influences have converged into the unique results of what the author said.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is ____ the recognition of incompleteness.
In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt continuously swirling around you, a ____ 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 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, driven by a willingness to ____ 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 to ____.
3 코드를 작성하는 엔지니어와 그 영향력
In the early days of the commercial internet, scholars discovered that, in cyberspace, ____ code operated as a kind of ‘law’.
____ law as we know it — public rules decided by legislators and judges — but a different kind of law, embedded 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 ____ 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 are more ____.
In late 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 ____ the platform’s rules against sharing hacked material.
As more and more of our actions, interactions and transactions are mediated through ____ technology, those who write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.
Software engineers are becoming social ____.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
It wasn’t really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend into all ____ of business.
As entities were privatized, markets opened up and competition became ____, so 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 ____ for space 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 brands that best represented you — the very notion of ____ as a form of personal expression.
Even businesses serving ____ businesses began to realize that having a brand was an 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
There are ____ 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 ____ we walk to the spot where they apparently merged we find them to be parallel.
The wheels of automobiles seen on ____ seem to be going backward when the automobile is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.
Such examples of ____ perception 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 it ____, 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 ____ to be reversed, and the wheels really to be going backward.
6 선배 학자들의 지원과 안내
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 ____ book manuscript set her on the path to becoming a successful scholar:
“They ____ me bluntly 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 planted by others, Wheeler has little patience for “cranky” referees who poison the air with ____ reviews.
She takes care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and students is always gracious and ____:
“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed at my work is something that I ____ to pay back.”