2026 수능특강 영독연 13강 변형문제 (1~9번)

____ Dr. 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 management are proving increasingly challenging for me and many others to sustain our ____

Previously, ____ were asked 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 volunteer time with various other demands on our ____

In the last six weeks, though, the new manager ____ volunteer services has begun assigning 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 value our autonomy and should ____ be treated like salaried employees whose working hours can be assigned by management.

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

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

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

Everything ____ dark after the power went out.

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

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

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

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

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

____ over the debris, I finally reached Dustin.

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

I hugged Dustin tight and breathed a sigh ____ relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ carve out some time 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 ____ ecological system with no manipulations (or preconceived notions).

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

The opposite can work well too: consider spending a whole day with ____ other people or distractions around, just looking at your system.

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

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

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

But this ____ like saying 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 ____ much finer scales than general circulation models (GCMs) can provide.

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

One approach is to embed a finer-scale ____ 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 ____ with the finer-scale regional climate model.

The bear ____ only knows 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 ____ a need to retreat from the world, particularly after periods of stress.

When we ____ this bear-like urge to 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 remember that ____ 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 ____ 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, ____ are capable of affection, care, and suffering.

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

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

To bring real change, we need to learn to see plants as independent, intrinsically valuable, sentient beings — not mere tools for our ____ 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, healthy soil, and a liveable atmosphere as the rest ____ 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.

____ fact, global 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 ____ societies — and spread to other parts of the world.

Take, for instance, ____ (association football).

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

Today, futbol ignites the passions of millions of Mexicans. Estadio Azteca has been filled to overflowing for two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986) ____ 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 World ____ New World food. It did not.

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

Sewell began drawing at an early ____

At the age of 12, she became the youngest person ever to attend the ____ Institute, 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 and ____ illustrator.

In 1924, ____ illustrated her first book, Susanne K. Langer’s The Cruise of 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 illustrated classic works, including those by American poet Emily Dickinson and British authors like ____ Austen.

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