2026 수특 영독연 3강 변형문제 (1~6번)

What is said is never a ____ repetition.

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 ____ case unique.

Although ____ 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.

____ sentence 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 what the speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, ____, 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 recognition of ____.

In a world marred by ____, doubt 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, ____ against hope that you’ll finally nail down the unsolvable questions troubling your life.

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

The quest for a neat and ____ 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 ____ in thought rather than called to action.

In the early ____ of the commercial 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 different ____ of law, embedded in the tech itself.

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 system without the ____ password.

Hence the young man who lost more than ＄200 million because he couldn’t ____ the password to his virtual currency wallet.

____ rules are more controversial.

In late 2020, one social media platform made it impossible for users to share a controversial article containing ____ 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 ____ increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.

Software engineers are ____ social engineers.

It wasn’t really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend into all areas of ____.

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

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

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

The focus was on ____ 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 shopping as a form of personal expression.

Even businesses serving other businesses began to realize that ____ a brand was an important business support.

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

There are many ordinary, ____ situations like the following example.

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

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 television seem to be ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 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 ____ manuscript set her on the path to becoming a successful scholar:

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

Having benefited from the welcoming ____ 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 is always gracious and ____:

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