2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

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

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

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

This worked very well for all of us because it allowed the flexibility to fit our volunteer ____ 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 upset among the ____ and resulting in numerous cancellations of shifts.

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

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

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

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

Everything was dark after ____ power went out.

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

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

I had to get ____ my son, 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 ____ of the room, narrowly missing his bed.

Crawling over the ____ I finally reached Dustin.

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

I hugged Dustin tight and breathed ____ sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But this is like ____ you 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 about the future climate at much finer scales than general circulation models (GCMs) ____ provide.

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

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

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 the ____ regional climate model.

The bear not only knows ____ 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 ____ to retreat from the world, particularly after periods of stress.

When we feel this bear-like urge ____ carve 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 ____ creative project, plan a trip, or plant seeds of thought that will hopefully spring up and come to fruition in the future.

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

Spending ____ much time in 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 by all that the world ____ to offer.

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

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

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

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

To bring real change, we need to learn to ____ 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 sense of this is ____ 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 true ____ of influences that developed all over the world, contemporary sports do not.

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

They are global phenomena ____ emerged almost exclusively from 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 use of the hands flourished ____ Mesoamerica.

Today, futbol ignites the passions of millions of Mexicans. Estadio ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 ever ____ attend the Pratt Institute, which was especially renowned for art and design.

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

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

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

She illustrated her own ____ 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 Dickinson and British authors ____ Jane Austen.

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