EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 6강
1 마케팅 성과 측정의 중요성
Profits are managed not only by setting a pricing strategy to maximize revenues and control costs; they are also influenced by a commitment to measure ____ performance.
An organization cannot achieve its objectives if it does not know where it stands in meeting ____ objectives.
Measurement of marketing activities is needed to assess ____ performance as well as set a future marketing strategy.
For example, it is important for a minor league ____ team to understand the effectiveness of Saturday night fireworks promotions in terms of the number of additional tickets sold and related spending from those customers.
____ performance in this case would enable a comparison of revenue generated with costs accumulated to execute the promotion.
Such return on investment ____ should be performed whenever possible to understand the relationship between marketing investment and profits, and guide decision-making for future marketing activities.
2 완결감에 대한 유아의 욕구
Consider how some people, including some young children, enjoy doing ____ puzzles for hours.
There are no big surprises. (Unless the last piece has been hidden by a ____
The players know exactly what the end result will look ____ and are rarely startled midway.
But there can still be great satisfaction upon completion. When listening to an interesting story, we can be deeply disappointed if we don’t ____ to hear the ending.
When exploring a new place such as a house or a park, we often want to ____ a clear sense of the overall layout and can be frustrated if we don’t know how different locations fit together.
Infants, like all of us, strive to ____ closure.
They have a ____ to identify all the toys that are in a box, or explore every room of a new space.
They have similar needs ____ closure in their causal models of how things happen.
This constellation of needs for closure often helps drive wonder, especially when there is a need to close ____ explanatory gap.
3 미국 일간지의 특성
Unlike Europe’s national and partisan press, U.S. daily newspapers ____ predominantly at the city level.
The circulation range for a daily newspaper was ____ bounded by its distance from other cities and by its time of publication.
Streetcars at the end of the 19th century, and motor trucks in the 20th ____ timely delivery of newspapers over larger regions.
Different papers competing in the same towns chose to ____ or spread out their physical distribution and editorial coverage to different radial distances from the central city.
Morning newspapers printed during the night were, of course, able ____ distribute over a wider range than afternoon papers.
By and large, however, the geographical area within which happenings were ____ reported as local news coincided with the area from which the newspaper drew the bulk of its readers.
4 바람과 지구의 물순환
Wind plays an important role in ____ water cycle.
In recent years, the once-accepted view of the ____ cycle has changed, and wind’s role in atmospheric circulation has found greater appreciation.
Traditionally, it was thought that ____ planet’s water cycle mostly involved evaporated moisture from large bodies of water being distributed by wind across the Earth’s surface.
In the last ____ years, that view has changed — it is now known that forests play a significant role in generating the transpiration that drives rainfall.
The various plants that live ____ forests capture water in their roots, and then release it as vapour through transpiration.
Prevailing winds transport the water through the ____ delivering rainfall to other locations.
When this water moves through ____ power of wind in large volumes, it becomes what meteorologist Jos Marengo called a ‘flying river’.
5 사회적 변화와 언어
Caregivers and others in a ____ immediate surroundings affect the language being acquired by that child.
Later, social groups affect the child’s ____
This results in social varieties of language with differences for class, ethnicity, and ____ as well as gender and gender expression.
However, when a social group undergoes significant changes across generations leading to the need for a different type of communication, an earlier variety might cease ____ be used.
____ occurred with the English initially spoken in Cosme and Nueva Australia, which were rural Paraguayan communities founded by Australian immigrants in the 1890s.
The only remaining language vestiges from ____ English-speaking immigrants are common Paraguayan last names like Kennedy, Smith, Stanley, and Wood.
6 통증의 신경학적 반응과 뇌로의 전달 과정
Pain is a neurological response to ____ external stimulus.
A mosquito bite, triggering a very small number of pain receptors, will create a mild sensation of awareness ____ the brain.
The signal is relayed ____ a chain of neurons up the spine of the individual to a special place in the brain.
The excitement of the brain pain ____ in turn asserts a presence in our consciousness.
We become aware of something ____ on our arm.
If it is a bee sting, where the bee leaves poisonous liquids at the sting site, more neurons at the site of the ____ are triggered than with a mosquito.
Therefore, a stronger signal is sent to the brain, with a stronger insertion into the ____ consciousness.
If a falling tree crushes a leg then ____ many pain receptors are fired off and the consciousness is overwhelmed with pain signals.
Torn ____ will continuously fire the signal until medical treatment deals with the problem.