2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 11강
7 수렵채집에서 농업으로 변화하며 얻게 된 단점
A successful farming community could support in a small region ____ much greater population than the foragers could have.
There were, however, very significant ____ to this new way of life.
First of all, storms, droughts, floods, torrential rains, and other severe weather anomalies could be disastrous for a farming community while posing ____ a major nuisance to foragers.
The latter, with their minimal lightweight possessions, could fairly ____ up and move to some other area where the damage was not so great.
But, more importantly, the natural home ____ 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 events that were not at ____ disasters for the foragers became disasters for them.
8 인간의 지각 경험에 미치지 못하는 언어
There are special situations in which people may know dozens, ____ not hundreds, of distinct words for colors.
One famous brand of ____ paints has more than two thousand colors in its commercial palette.
Many of these are labeled with unique (and decidedly nonbasic) English names: ____ 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 in the color space are astronomically ____ in comparison to well over 2 million distinctions in color that the human eye can discern.
Even in highly specialized, technical ____ 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 ____ that most people use will be one hundred times less than that again.
Our perceptual experience is rich, but our language comes nowhere close ____ that richness.
____ you think that language is good for capturing perceptual experience, think again.
9 과거 영국의 공유지와 현대 인터넷 디지털 공유지
In Britain, large open areas of land known as the commons were the property of land-owning nobility but were accessible for use by ____
They used the commons to ____ small-scale agriculture, to collect wood for fuel and cooking, and to raise small amounts of livestock for their families.
As global demand for wool to be used in clothing and other goods increased, landowners sought more grazing land to increase wool ____ 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 primary ____ for survival for centuries.
Today, there are interesting ____ between the physical commons of English pasturelands and the digital commons of the internet.
Both are rich ____ opportunities for self-subsistence, expression, flourishing; both are full of challenges from enclosure and landlords (e.g., platform owners who charge fees for access or use).
In Britain, ____ the demand for wool increased, peasants’ access to the 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 difficult appears to be our narcissistic ____
Too ____ we pretend to be listening while our mind is racing in trying to think of something
____ However, being clever is 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 already know ____ the other person is going to say.
I am referring to an inattentive listening, only waiting for a chance to speak, and ____ becoming impatient, wishing to get rid of the other person.
As the philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, ‘There is a difference between truly listening and waiting ____ your turn to talk.’
This urge to interrupt and get a word in can be quite ____
Some people just ____ to hear themselves speak just to confirm and validate their existence.
It has been said that big egos have ____ ears.
11-12 질소 비료의 필요성
The bank account analogy helps express why increased ____ production must be accompanied by fertilizer use.
Every time you harvest a crop and eat it, the nitrogen (and other nutrients) in those plants, the very nutrients that make that crop good food, are taken out of the soil ____ moved to wherever you are.
Some of those nutrients accumulate in your body (if you are growing), but most pass ____
Either way, unless you and your waste are returned to the farm, there is ____ 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, ____ died on or near the farm, leaving fields uncultivated or planting legumes and plowing them under was a reasonably sustainable way to produce food.
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 ____ replaced, or the soil 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 figure out a safe and effective way to return the nutrients passing through humans to the ____ soil where they came.
In ____ words, we thrive because of our innovations in capturing nitrogen.