2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

Dear Dr. Stevens, For the past four ____, 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 ____ others to sustain our commitment.

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

This worked very well for ____ of us because it allowed the flexibility 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 assigning us to volunteer schedules without consulting us, causing a great deal of ____ among the volunteers and resulting in numerous cancellations of shifts.

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

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

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

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

Everything was ____ after the power went out.

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

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

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

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

By now accustomed to the darkness, I could make out that Dustin’s bookcases had fallen into the center of the ____, 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 a sigh of ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The opposite can work ____ too: consider spending 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 on the ____ climate system.

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

The Mediterranean will become drier, and the ____ 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 future climate at much finer scales than general circulation models (____) can provide.

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

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

No region is isolated ____ 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 the finer-scale regional climate model.

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

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

When we feel this bear-like urge to carve out restorative ____ 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 come to fruition in the ____.

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

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

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

Plants are not set pieces in our human drama, they are ____ 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 ____, to pretend that they don’t exist is a very dangerous form of disregard.

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

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

Our welfare is deeply dependent upon the welfare of plants, and the best way for us to make ____ 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 ____ to be remembered when we consider the ethical dimensions of climate change.

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

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

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

Take, for instance, soccer (association ____).

Before European contact, ball games that limited or barred the use of the hands ____ 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 other ____ matches.

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

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

Sewell began ____ at an early age.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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