2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear ____ Stevens, For the past four 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 ____ are proving increasingly challenging for me and many others to sustain our commitment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything was dark after the ____ went out.

I ran across ____ 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 to ____ son, no matter what.

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

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

Crawling ____ the debris, I finally reached Dustin.

He was shaking with ____ but was huddling safely under the covers.

I hugged Dustin tight and breathed ____ sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, carve out some ____ to get to know your organisms.

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

____ often fun to do this with a lab mate or colleague.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One approach ____ to embed a finer-scale model of a particular area of interest 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 exchange information with ____ finer-scale regional climate model.

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

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

When we feel this bear-like urge to ____ out restorative time to “hibernate,” we should think 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 seeds of thought that will hopefully spring up and ____ to fruition in the future.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our welfare is deeply dependent upon ____ welfare 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, ____ soil, and a liveable atmosphere as the rest of us, and this needs to be remembered when we consider the ethical dimensions of climate change.

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

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

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

Take, ____ instance, soccer (association football).

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

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

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

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

Sewell began drawing at an ____ age.

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

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

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

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

She illustrated her own book, ABC for Everyday, ____ 1930 and a year later collaborated with her younger sister on Building a House in Sweden.

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

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