EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 6강
1 마케팅 성과 측정의 중요성
____ are managed not only by setting a pricing strategy to maximize revenues and control costs; they are also influenced by a commitment to measure marketing performance.
An organization cannot ____ its objectives if it does not know where it stands in meeting those objectives.
Measurement of marketing activities is needed to assess past ____ as well as set a future marketing strategy.
For example, it is important for a minor league baseball team to understand the effectiveness of Saturday night fireworks promotions in terms of the number of additional ____ sold and related spending from those customers.
Tracking performance in this case would enable a comparison of revenue generated with costs accumulated to execute the ____.
Such return on investment analysis should be performed whenever ____ to understand the relationship between marketing investment and profits, and guide decision-making for future marketing activities.
2 완결감에 대한 유아의 욕구
____ how some people, including some young children, enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles for hours.
____ are no big surprises. (Unless the last piece has been hidden by a slysibling.)
The players know exactly what the end result will look like and are rarely ____ midway.
But there can still be great satisfaction upon completion. When listening to an interesting story, we ____ 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 ____ want to get a clear sense of the overall layout and can be frustrated if we don’t know how different locations fit together.
Infants, ____ all of us, strive to achieve closure.
They have a need to identify all the toys that are in a box, or explore ____ room of a new space.
They have similar needs for closure in their causal models of how things ____.
This constellation of ____ for closure often helps drive wonder, especially when there is a need to close an explanatory gap.
3 미국 일간지의 특성
Unlike Europe’s national and partisan press, U.S. ____ newspapers competed predominantly at the city level.
The circulation range for a daily newspaper was primarily bounded by its distance from other cities and by its time of ____.
Streetcars at the end of the 19th century, and motor ____ in the 20th permitted timely delivery of newspapers over larger regions.
Different papers competing in the same towns chose to limit or spread out their physical distribution and editorial coverage to different radial distances from the central ____.
Morning newspapers printed during the night were, of course, able to distribute over a ____ range than afternoon papers.
By and large, ____, the geographical 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 important role in Earth’s ____ cycle.
In recent years, the once-accepted view of the water cycle has changed, and wind’s role in ____ circulation has found greater appreciation.
Traditionally, it was thought that the planet’s water cycle mostly involved evaporated moisture from large bodies of water being distributed by wind across the ____ surface.
In the last fifty years, that view has changed — it is now known that ____ play a significant role in generating the transpiration that drives rainfall.
The various ____ that live within forests capture water in their roots, and then release it as vapour through transpiration.
Prevailing ____ transport 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 ____ immediate 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 well as ____ and gender expression.
However, when a social group undergoes significant changes across generations ____ to the need for a different type of communication, an earlier variety might cease to be used.
This occurred with the English ____ spoken in Cosme 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 ____ Paraguayan last names like Kennedy, Smith, Stanley, and Wood.
6 통증의 신경학적 반응과 뇌로의 전달 과정
Pain is a neurological response to an external ____.
A mosquito bite, triggering a ____ small number of pain receptors, will create a mild sensation of awareness in the brain.
The signal is relayed by a chain of neurons up the ____ of the individual to a special place in the brain.
The excitement of the brain pain neurons in turn ____ a presence in our consciousness.
We become ____ of something being on our arm.
If it is a bee sting, where the bee leaves poisonous liquids at the ____ site, more neurons at the site of the sting are triggered than with a mosquito.
Therefore, a stronger signal is ____ to the brain, with a stronger insertion into the individual’s consciousness.
If a falling tree crushes a leg then many, many pain receptors are ____ off and the consciousness is overwhelmed with pain signals.
Torn flesh will continuously fire the signal until ____ treatment deals with the problem.