EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 6강
1 마케팅 성과 측정의 중요성
Profits are managed not only by setting a pricing strategy to ____ revenues and control costs; they are also influenced by a commitment to measure marketing performance.
An organization cannot achieve its ____ if it does not know where it stands in meeting those objectives.
Measurement of marketing activities is needed to assess past performance as well as set a future marketing ____.
For example, it is important for a minor league baseball ____ to understand the effectiveness of Saturday night fireworks promotions in terms of the number of additional tickets sold and related spending from those customers.
Tracking ____ in this case would enable a comparison of revenue generated with costs accumulated to execute the promotion.
Such return on investment analysis should be performed ____ 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 ____ children, enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles for hours.
There are no big surprises. (Unless the last ____ has been hidden by a slysibling.)
The players know exactly what the end result will ____ like and are rarely startled midway.
But there can still be great satisfaction upon completion. When listening to an interesting ____, we can be deeply disappointed if we don’t get to hear the ending.
When exploring a new place such as a house or a park, we often want to get a clear sense of the overall layout and can be frustrated if we don’t know how ____ locations fit together.
Infants, like all of us, strive to achieve ____.
They have a need to identify all the toys that are in a ____, or explore every room of a new space.
They have similar needs for closure in their causal ____ of how things happen.
This constellation of needs for closure often helps drive wonder, especially when there is a need to close an ____ gap.
3 미국 일간지의 특성
Unlike Europe’s national and partisan ____, U.S. daily newspapers competed predominantly at the city level.
The circulation range for a daily newspaper was primarily ____ by its distance from other cities and by its time of publication.
____ at the end of the 19th century, and motor trucks in the 20th permitted 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 to distribute over a wider range than ____ papers.
By and large, however, the ____ area within which happenings were regularly 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 ____ role in Earth’s water cycle.
In recent years, the ____ view of the water cycle has changed, and wind’s role in atmospheric circulation has found greater appreciation.
Traditionally, it was thought that the planet’s water cycle mostly involved ____ moisture from large bodies of water being distributed by wind across the Earth’s surface.
In the last fifty years, that view has changed — it is ____ known that forests play a significant role in generating the transpiration that drives rainfall.
The various plants that ____ within forests capture water in their roots, and then release it as vapour through transpiration.
Prevailing winds ____ the water through the air, delivering rainfall to other locations.
When this water ____ through the 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 child’s ____ surroundings affect the language being acquired by that child.
Later, social groups affect the ____ language.
This results in social varieties of language with differences for class, ethnicity, and age as ____ 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 ____ to be used.
This occurred with the English initially spoken in ____ and Nueva Australia, which were rural Paraguayan communities founded by Australian immigrants in the 1890s.
The only remaining language vestiges from those English-speaking immigrants are common Paraguayan last names like Kennedy, ____, Stanley, and Wood.
6 통증의 신경학적 반응과 뇌로의 전달 과정
Pain is a neurological response to an external ____.
A mosquito bite, triggering a very small number of pain ____, will create a mild sensation of awareness in the brain.
The signal is relayed by a chain of neurons up the spine of the individual to a ____ place in the brain.
The excitement of the brain pain neurons in turn ____ 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 sting are ____ than with a mosquito.
Therefore, a ____ signal is sent to the brain, with a stronger insertion into the individual’s consciousness.
If a falling tree crushes a leg then ____, many pain receptors are fired off and the consciousness is overwhelmed with pain signals.
Torn flesh will continuously ____ the signal until medical treatment deals with the problem.