2026 수능완성 영어 2강 변형

Around the turn of the twentieth century, anthropologists trained in the natural sciences began to reimagine what a science of humanity should look like and how social ____ ought to go about studying cultural groups.

Some of those anthropologists insisted that one should at least spend significant time actually observing and ____ to the people studied.

Early ____ such as Franz Boas and Alfred Cort Haddon typically traveled to the remote locations where the people in question lived and spent a few weeks to a few months there.

They sought out a local Western host ____ was familiar with the people and the area (such as a colonial official, missionary, or businessman) and found accommodations through them.

Although they did at times ____ into the community without a guide, they generally did not spend significant time with the local people.

____, their observations were primarily conducted from their verandas.

Our distant ancestors would be puzzled by the way exercise has become ____, industrialized, and, above all, medicalized.

Although we sometimes exercise for fun, millions of people today pay to exercise to manage their ____, prevent disease, and delay aging and death.

Exercise is big business. Walking, jogging, and many other forms of exercise are inherently free, but giant multinational companies persuade us to spend ____ of money to work out in special clothes, with special equipment, and in special places like fitness clubs.

We also pay money to watch other people exercise, and a handful of us even pay for the privilege of suffering through marathons, ultramarathons, triathlons, and other extreme or potentially dangerous sporting events. For a few thousand dollars, you, too, ____ run 150 miles across the Sahara Desert.

But more than anything else, exercise has become a source of anxiety and confusion because while everyone knows that exercise is good for their health, the majority of us struggle to exercise enough, safely, or enjoyably. We are exercised about ____.

People most often speak about the ____ or the suburban town they live in but rarely about the region.

Yet the best ____ to understand urban growth is to appreciate that it is regional in scale.

We might say that we are from Arlington Heights, but we work, shop, attend schools, go to churches, synagogues, or mosques, and pursue ____ in an increasing variety of locations, all within an expanding metropolitan area.

Urban texts in the past ____ addressed this issue, but they do not take it to heart as the central organizing principle of the discussion.

In Eric Bogosian’s brilliant film Suburbia, ____ Parker Posey portrays an L.A. record promoter on tour who grew up in the affluent Southern California suburbs.

When asked by a group of small-town teenagers ____ she is from, she replies, “I come from an area.”

We understand that the words city and suburb fail to connect with the more contemporary ____ of daily life.

Throughout your life, you’re ____ to cross paths with a lot of people eager to goad you into conflict or confrontation.

There will be times when, despite your best efforts, you may find ____ getting baited into an argument, pulled into a game, or sucked into an agenda.

And since we can’t always avoid these hot zones, we need to have ____ in place to handle them.

How can we manage those specific situations: the daily annoyances and problems that arise at work, school, or with our ____ and friends?

Despite Newton’s theory, not every action needs a reaction. Just because someone is demanding your attention doesn’t mean you have to give it, especially if that engagement seems ____ charged.

When you decide not to dignify an ____ communication with a response, it’s about preserving your personal dignity and mental clarity.

Just because someone throws the ball ____ mean you have to catch it.

The fierce green fire in the eyes of a dying old wolf reflected something known only to her and the ____.

The hunter, ____ Leopold, sensed that his own understanding, fewer wolves meant more deer, did not have the wisdom of the wolf and the mountain.

In the wolf’s eyes, Leopold saw the need to ____ differently — that human actions and values should acknowledge the interdependence of animals, the environment and humans.

Good behaviour, he ____, was that which sustained the integrity, stability and beauty of the land.

Leopold was employed to ____ the forest, principally for recreational deer hunters, so he set about killing the deer’s predators, the wolf and the mountain lion.

However, the deer ____, no longer held in check by predators (including human hunters), exploded, resulting in severe damage to the forest and the land.

As his interests grew to include conservation and ecology, ____ concluded that the forest feared the deer more than the wolf.

As ‘only the mountain has lived ____ enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf’ we should ‘think like a mountain.’

Dealing with chronic stress that is ____ can push us to our limits.

When this happens, our brain and body ____ on a ‘safe mode’ of living, or ‘low-power mode’.

Just like when the battery on your phone is running low, low-power mode saves energy for the most basic functions and ____ battery life.

When you’re in this mode of living, your brain reverts to mental heuristics, those shortcuts you’re so badly ____ to avoid, meaning you repeat old habits you’re trying to shake.

Decision-making is impaired and your brain will take the route more ____.

Why would you run down a dirt path if you can ____ drive on the motorway when you’re exhausted?

____ we’re living like this, the brain cannot prioritize making habitual and behavioural changes.

The hardware that is your brain is working hard to operate and it ____ make any software updates without crashing.