2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For the past ____ years, volunteering at the Langford Science Museum has been a source of pride since my retirement as a university professor.

However, recent changes in volunteer schedule management are proving increasingly challenging for me and many others to ____ our commitment.

Previously, volunteers ____ asked to sign up for available slots on the schedule.

This worked very well for all of us because it allowed the ____ to fit our volunteer time with various other demands on our time.

In the last six weeks, though, the new manager of volunteer services has begun ____ us to volunteer schedules without consulting us, causing a great deal of upset among the volunteers and resulting in numerous cancellations of shifts.

As unpaid volunteers, we ____ our autonomy and should not be treated like salaried employees whose working hours can be assigned by management.

I ____ you can address this problem before it becomes too great to solve.

A powerful earthquake struck our home at midnight, jolting me awake and nearly throwing me out of my ____

My instant ____ was to run and get my son, Dustin, who was in the room at the other end of our house.

Everything was ____ after the power went out.

I ran ____ the house in total darkness, my hands outstretched, blindly feeling for walls and furniture to guide me towards Dustin’s bedroom.

A violent aftershock knocked me ____ my knees, but I couldn’t stop.

I had to get ____ my son, no matter what.

Then, the shaking stopped, and everything became quiet as I peered ____ my son’s bedroom.

By now accustomed to the darkness, I could make out that Dustin’s bookcases had fallen into the center of the room, ____ missing his bed.

Crawling over ____ debris, I finally reached Dustin.

He was shaking ____ fear, but was huddling safely under the covers.

I hugged Dustin tight and breathed a sigh of ____

____ that moment, nothing else mattered but the fact that my son was safe.

Good ____ is the first requirement for designing meaningful ecological studies.

____ best way to develop that intuition is by observing organisms in the field.

Sadly, few ____ us “have the time” to just observe nature.

Graduate committees and tenure reviewers are not ____ to recommend investing precious time in this way.

However, observations are absolutely essential for you to generate working hypotheses that are grounded in ____

____ carve out some time to get to know your organisms.

If you are too busy with classes and other responsibilities, then reserve two ____ before you start your experiments to observe your ecological system with no manipulations (or preconceived notions).

It’s often fun to ____ this with a lab mate or colleague.

The opposite can work well too: consider spending a whole day with no other people or distractions around, just looking at your ____

We are getting better at understanding the ____ of humans on the global climate system.

As ____ planet gets warmer, high latitudes will warm faster than the tropics.

The ____ will become drier, and the tropics will be wetter.

But this is like saying you should ____ an umbrella in Spain because it is going to rain in Vietnam.

To plan for and adapt effectively to climate change, we need information about the ____ climate at much finer scales than general circulation models (GCMs) can provide.

To decide whether to put up a ____ move some houses, switch crops, or buy insurance, we need data at scales of less than 100 kilometers.

One approach is to embed a finer-scale model of a particular area of ____ into a larger-scale GCM.

No region is isolated from the rest of the planet, so the GCM part of the model can keep track of what is going on globally and ____ information with the finer-scale regional climate model.

The bear not only ____ where and when to find food, he also knows when to retreat to his den to ride out a challenging time.

Like the bear, we sometimes feel a need ____ retreat from the world, particularly after periods of stress.

When we feel this bear-like urge to carve out restorative time to “hibernate,” we should ____ of it as the sensible impulse of our inner bear.

We might consider withdrawing from some social activities to take stock of our lives, start a creative project, plan a trip, or plant ____ of thought that will hopefully spring up and come to fruition in the future.

However, we ____ need to remember that bears come out of their dens once spring arrives.

Spending too much time ____ isolation can deprive us of connection with and inspiration from the outside world.

It’s best to balance the urge to retreat for restoration with the opportunity to be revitalized ____ all that the world has to offer.

Plants are not set pieces in our ____ drama, they are characters with distinct experiences and needs.

Like us, they are ____ of affection, care, and suffering.

While we can (and do) dismiss the moral importance of plant experiences, to pretend that ____ don’t exist is a very dangerous form of disregard.

Our cold, utilitarian approach to reducing climate change has ____ far been largely ineffectual.

To bring real change, we need to learn to see plants as independent, intrinsically valuable, ____ beings — not mere tools for our own human flourishing.

Our welfare is deeply dependent upon the ____ of plants, and the best way for us to make sense of this is by reminding ourselves that they are persons.

They have just as much of a right to clean water, healthy soil, and a liveable atmosphere as the rest of us, and this needs to be remembered ____ we consider the ethical dimensions of climate change.

Whereas contemporary ____ represent a true blending of influences that developed all over the world, contemporary sports do not.

In fact, global sports spread more like the bubonic ____ than the burrito.

They are global phenomena that emerged almost exclusively ____ Western civilization — from European nations and European settler societies — and spread to other parts of the world.

Take, for instance, soccer (association ____

Before European contact, ball games that limited or barred the ____ of the hands flourished in Mesoamerica.

Today, futbol ignites the ____ of millions of Mexicans. Estadio Azteca has been filled to overflowing for two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986) and a multitude of other international matches.

You might easily conclude that futbol fused Mesoamerican and European sporting pastimes, much like pizza and pasta fused Old ____ and New World food. It did not.

Helen Moore Sewell was an American ____ and author of children’s books who was known for her illustrations.

____ began drawing at an early age.

At the age of 12, she became the youngest person ____ to attend the Pratt Institute, which was especially renowned for art and design.

She also studied under the ____ American artist Alexander Archipenko, who dramatically influenced her style.

Sewell’s early work ____ as both an author and an illustrator.

In 1924, she illustrated her first book, Susanne K. Langer’s The Cruise ____ the Little Dipper, and Other Fairy Tales.

She illustrated her own book, ABC for Everyday, in ____ and a year later collaborated with her younger sister on Building a House in Sweden.

She also ____ classic works, including those by American poet Emily Dickinson and British authors like Jane Austen.

During her career, Sewell illustrated ____ than 50 books. She won a Caldecott Honor in 1955 for her illustrations in The Thanksgiving Story by American author Alice Dalgliesh.