2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 11강
7 수렵채집에서 농업으로 변화하며 얻게 된 단점
A successful farming community could support in ____ small region a much greater population than the foragers could have.
There ____ however, very significant downsides to this new way of life.
First of all, storms, droughts, floods, torrential rains, and other severe weather ____ could be disastrous for a farming community while posing only a major nuisance to foragers.
The latter, with their minimal lightweight possessions, could fairly easily up ____ move to some other area where the damage was not so great.
But, more ____ the natural home they depended on was much less likely to be severely damaged than were the crops and structures the agricultural community relied on.
By replacing their natural home with an artificial ____ the farmers, paradoxically enough, had made themselves more defenseless to natural disasters;
in fact, natural ____ that were not at all disasters for the foragers became disasters for them.
8 인간의 지각 경험에 미치지 못하는 언어
There are special situations in which ____ may know dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct words for colors.
One famous brand of house paints has more than two thousand colors in its commercial ____
Many of these are labeled with unique (and decidedly ____ English names: violet posy, wing commander, Aztec tan.
But even allowing nonbasic terms and even allowing the highly specialized vocabulary of the paint industry, the distinctions that languages make ____ the color space are astronomically small in comparison to well over 2 million distinctions in color that the human eye can discern.
____ in highly specialized, technical vocabularies, the total inventory of color terms in use makes less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the discernible distinctions in color that the human visual system can make.
The everyday vocabulary that most people use will be one hundred times less ____ that again.
Our perceptual experience is rich, but our language comes nowhere close to that ____
If you think that language is good for capturing ____ experience, think again.
9 과거 영국의 공유지와 현대 인터넷 디지털 공유지
In Britain, large open ____ of land known as the commons were the property of land-owning nobility but were accessible for use by peasants.
They used the commons to conduct small-scale agriculture, to collect wood for fuel and cooking, and to raise small amounts of livestock for ____ families.
As global demand for wool to be used in clothing and ____ goods increased, landowners sought more grazing land to increase wool production, so they privatized the commons, fencing them off and thus cutting off access to the peasants.
By this process of the enclosure of the commons, peasants were cut off from land that had been their ____ resource for survival for centuries.
Today, there are interesting correlations between the physical ____ of English pasturelands and the digital commons of the internet.
Both are rich with opportunities for self-subsistence, expression, flourishing; both are full of challenges from enclosure ____ landlords (e.g., platform owners who charge fees for access or use).
In Britain, as the demand for wool increased, peasants’ access to ____ commons was blocked, and this resembles contemporary situations we are facing in the digital world.
10 자기도취적 성향으로 인한 경청의 어려움
The reason listening can be so ____ appears to be our narcissistic disposition.
Too ____ we pretend to be listening while our mind is racing in trying to think of something
clever. However, being clever ____ not being wise.
In addition, to exacerbate our narcissistic tendencies, there is also the kind of listening with half an ear that presumes that we ____ know what the other person is going to say.
I am referring to an inattentive ____ only waiting for a chance to speak, and even becoming impatient, wishing to get rid of the other person.
____ the philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, ‘There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.’
This urge to interrupt and get a ____ in can be quite powerful.
Some people just ____ to hear themselves speak just to confirm and validate their existence.
It has ____ said that big egos have little ears.
11-12 질소 비료의 필요성
The bank account analogy helps express why ____ agricultural production must be accompanied by fertilizer use.
Every time you harvest a crop and eat ____ the nitrogen (and other nutrients) in those plants, the very nutrients that make that crop good food, are taken out of the soil and moved to wherever you are.
Some of ____ nutrients accumulate in your body (if you are growing), but most pass through.
Either way, unless you and your waste are returned to the farm, there ____ a net loss of nutrients from the soil — a net withdrawal from the nutrient bank.
When there were relatively few people, most of whom lived, went to the bathroom, and died on or near the farm, leaving fields uncultivated or planting legumes and plowing them under was a reasonably sustainable way to produce ____
But for eight ____ people? Or for ten?
The food required to feed all of us requires a lot of nitrogen to be removed from farms, and it needs to be replaced, or the ____ bank account of nitrogen will run out.
This means feeding the world requires industrially produced nitrogen fertilizer, at least for the foreseeable future, until we ____ out a safe and effective way to return the nutrients passing through humans to the farm soil where they came.
In other words, we ____ because of our innovations in capturing nitrogen.