EBS 2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is said is never ____ mere repetition.
Even if one agrees word for word with something that has been said before, everything — the world, ____ speaker, the circumstances, the addressee, and the meaning of what was said — has changed.
What one says is therefore in each ____ unique.
Although most of our statements are unoriginal, they show ____ their particular, even unique, style (which can be dull, ugly, or trivial) that someone has appropriated and therewith personalized them.
Every sentence proves that the author has changed ____ received gift into a thought of her own.
An analysis of what is one’s ____ might then reveal much of what the speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,
while at the same time disclosing how all these influences have converged into ____ unique results of what the author said.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is often the ____ of incompleteness.
In a world marred by uncertainty, ____ continuously swirling around you, a question rises to the surface of your awareness.
And ____ that moment of recognition, you might choose to solve the mystery.
You engage in worrying, ____ against hope that you’ll finally nail down the unsolvable questions troubling your life.
Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a common thread running through many ____ of worrying.
The quest for a neat and satisfying resolution frequently ____ this behavior.
It’s understandable — it’s likely born out of a tireless commitment to do better, driven by a willingness to pursue the ____ things in your life — but worrying begins to deviate from that path.
____ your good intentions, you get trapped in thought rather than called to action.
3 코드를 작성하는 엔지니어와 그 영향력
In the early days of the commercial internet, scholars discovered ____ in cyberspace, computer code operated as a kind of ‘law’.
Not law as we know it — public rules decided by legislators and judges — but a different kind of law, embedded in the tech ____
Whenever we use an app, platform, smartphone or computer, we have no choice but ____ follow the strict rules that are coded into these technologies.
Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that ____ cannot access this system without the correct password.
Hence the young man who lost more than ____ million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.
Other rules are ____ controversial.
In late 2020, one social media platform made it impossible for users to share a controversial article containing ____ of corruption about a public figure’s son, on the basis that it violated the platform’s rules against sharing hacked material.
As more and ____ of our actions, interactions and transactions are mediated through digital technology, those who write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.
Software engineers ____ becoming social engineers.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
It wasn’t really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend into all areas ____ business.
As entities were privatized, markets opened up and competition became fiercer, ____ the need to differentiate your business became greater.
Utilities, telecoms providers, banks, insurance ____ and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing the power of branding.
As brand owners fought ____ space in your mind, advertising became incredibly influential.
The focus was on imbuing products and services with meaning so ____ you as the customer could surround yourself with the brands that best represented you — the very notion of shopping as a form of personal expression.
Even businesses serving other businesses began to realize ____ having a brand was an important business support.
____ were now seen as more than just a logo or a tagline; they were seen as opportunities to create meaning.
5 인간을 오도할 수 있는 왜곡된 감각 현상
There are many ordinary, daily-life ____ like the following example.
A straight stick put in water looks bent; yet we do not believe it has become bent just because it was immersed ____ water, which is an easily penetrable liquid.
Railroad tracks seem to converge in the ____ and yet when we walk to the spot where they apparently merged we find them to be parallel.
____ wheels of automobiles seen on television seem to be going backward when the automobile is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.
Such examples of ____ perception could be multiplied endlessly. Each of these sense phenomena is thus misleading in some way.
If human beings were to accept the world as being exactly how it looks, they would be deceived as to how things really ____
They would think the stick in water really to be bent, the writing on pages really to be reversed, and the wheels really to ____ going backward.
6 선배 학자들의 지원과 안내
According to an ancient Greek proverb, “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they ____ never sit.”
Likewise, an academic culture grows great when senior scholars perform ____ of generosity for junior academics who may never know their names.
Literary scholar and poet Lesley Wheeler remains “endlessly grateful” to the two anonymous readers whose ____ responses to her first book manuscript set her on the path to becoming a successful scholar:
“They told me bluntly what was wrong with the book, ____ they also found the time to praise it; and that was enough encouragement.”
Having benefited from the welcoming shelter of shade trees planted by others, Wheeler has little patience ____ “cranky” referees who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.
She takes care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and students ____ always gracious and constructive:
“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed ____ my work is something that I want to pay back.”