EBS 2026학년도 수능완성 영어
3강 글의 주제
기출 평범한 것을 통한 특이한 것의 이해
It is much more natural to ____ surprised by unusual phenomena like eclipses than ordinary phenomena like falling bodies or the succession of night into day and day into night.
Many cultures invented gods to explain these ____ that shocked, frightened, or surprised them; but very few imagined a god of falling bodies — to which they were so accustomed that they did not even notice them.
But the reason for eclipses is ultimately the same as that of the succession of night and day: the movement of celestial bodies, which itself is based on the Newtonian law of attraction and how it explains why things fall when ____ let them go.
For the physicist, understanding the ordinary, the habitual, and ____ frequent thus allows us to account for the frightening and the singular.
As such, it was thus necessary to ask “Why do things fall?” and to have Newton’s response to understand a ____ range of much more bizarre phenomena occurring at every level of the universe.
1 소비의 디지털화
Social media, mobile ____ smartphones, QR codes, tablets, mobile apps, virtual fashion and digital shopping windows replace and merge with previous consumption spheres.
Consumer activities such as purchasing, comparing and examining goods are increasingly handled through the Internet ____ mobile digital devices; consumers organize and spread service and product information on social media sites, blogs and forums; and money is spent increasingly on digital items.
Furthermore, product ____ decision making and the relationships with physical stores are becoming more intimately dependent on smartphones, tablets and other digital devices.
Growing numbers of available recommendation systems and online review platforms have ____ assumed a prominent role in consumption practices.
In their use and co-production of such recommendation ____ for books, movies, restaurants, wines, music, electronics, musical instruments and clothes, consumers are relying increasingly on algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Taken together, these examples are ____ of the contemporary ongoing digitalization of consumption that results in the development of new cultures of consumption.
2 미국의 재정착 정책과 부족의 정치 조직 형태
____ a superior army fails to dominate a weaker enemy, the causes invariably include the unfamiliar terrain and geographical decentralization of the enemy.
But that is ____ the primary characteristic that determines the outcome.
The U.S. policy of resettlement on reservation land can be analyzed for each ____ the tribes to determine how organizational style affects military success.
History never simplifies down to singular causes, such as political centralization, ____ some trends are more evident than others.
The more sedentary tribes, who relied on agriculture and were geographically more centralized around fertile locations, were more quickly ____ than the nomadic plains tribes who were widely dispersed.
What distinguished the tribes who were more successful against the ____ military?
Political decentralization. Those ____ strong chieftains were more quickly settled on reservations.
The last ____ to submit to U.S. military were the most politically decentralized, the Comanche and the Apache.
3 조직 정체성의 지나친 내면화
One of the reasons it is so hard to change careers — or why we change, only to end up in the same boat — ____ that we can so fully internalize our institutional identities, relying on them to convey our worth and accomplishments to the outside world.
Even when we can honestly admit that the external trappings of success — titles, perks, and other markers of status — don’t matter much, we can hide from ____ need for change by telling ourselves how much the company needs us.
Like Dan, who postponed vacations and overrode family obligations when the organization needed him, most working adults organize at least some portion of their working lives according to the principle that self-sacrifice is OK when it’s for ____ good of the institution.
Since basic assumptions tend to exist in interlocking clusters, what may often appear to be a work-life balance problem, or an inability to free ourselves from unrewarding or overly political working relationships, is in fact our ____ to separate our commitment to an organization from being the organization.
4 AI 시스템 통제의 어려움
To make AI systems more human-value aligned, including more respect for privacy, governments are seeking to regulate AI ____ and processes.
At the input level, these efforts include strengthening ____ and consent regimes and requiring strong data handling safeguards; at the process level, they include rights to explanations and other forms of accountability such as validation studies, bug reports, and so on.
But given how useful the outputs of AI systems can be, any desire for control over input or process can quickly lose any sense of priority or urgency for all but the most zealous of ____ advocates.
The attraction of AI outputs that are strikingly useful, precise, efficient, accurate, and reliable — contributing to their increasing capture of human time, attention, and trust — often renders attempts to exert control over ____ inputs or the processes of AI moot.
Whether we can introduce human ____ into emergent and evolvable intelligence is a much-debated issue.
This has led ____ experts to argue that, while we are achieving technical progress, AI may move beyond these initial constraints imposed on it to achieve its own best goals.
5 지구 내부의 미생물
Osburn and her ____ have shown that, contrary to long-held assumptions, Earth’s interior is not lifeless.
In fact, the majority of the planet’s microbes — perhaps more than ____ percent — may live deep underground.
These intraterrestrial microbes tend to be quite ____ from their counterparts on the surface.
They are ancient and slow, reproducing infrequently and possibly living ____ millions of years.
They often acquire energy in unusual ways, ____ rock instead of oxygen.
And ____ seem capable of weathering geological disasters that would wipe out most creatures.
Like the many tiny organisms in the ocean and atmosphere, the unique microbes within Earth’s crust do ____ simply inhabit their surroundings — they transform them.
Subsurface microbes carve vast caverns, concentrate minerals and ____ metals, and regulate the global cycling of carbon and nutrients.
Microbes may even have helped construct the continents, literally laying the ____ for all other terrestrial life.