2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 15강
1 폭설로 인한 휴교 공지
Dear Parents/Guardians ____ Students of TBS High School,
Thank you for your ____ during the heavy snowstorm that dropped more than 40 cm of snow in Calbary.
This evening, the City of Calbary has issued a snowstorm alert and ____ encouraging residents to stay home.
At TBS High School, we are also facing several concerns: ____ may not be able to walk to school safely, and many school buses will likely be delayed or, in some cases, canceled.
With all of this in mind, we have made the decision to close our school on Tuesday, ____ 21.
Students may either work on previously assigned tasks or spend ____ reviewing material previously covered at home.
Thank you ____ your patience and understanding.
2 Santa Teresa 교회에서 생긴 일
By the time our family arrived at the ____ of Santa Teresa, I tried to soak up the chapel’s beauty in silence.
However, I found a group of people singing loudly ____ the corner of the chapel.
Why are these people ruining my ____
Do they even know ____ this place is?
To make matters worse, they started dancing, ____
My moment ____ the chapel was completely ruined by their inconsiderate behavior.
Suddenly, some women in the group began motioning for me to join ____
____ attempted to decline by taking backward steps.
Still, they just kept ____ their hands toward me.
I looked down at my daughter, who looked back at me with curiosity. I ____ and smiled.
____ next thing I knew, we were dancing together with huge smiles on our faces.
As I squeezed my daughter’s hand ____ did my best to keep time with the lively beat, my heart was filled with joy.
I knew that ____ would be my favorite memory of the trip.
3 자신의 성과 뒤에 존재하는 조력자들
For better or worse, we see the world through a singular ____ that often causes us to fall victim to certain biases.
____ seen a number of entrepreneurs who built successful businesses and attributed all of their achievements to their own ingenuity.
____ people tend to lack the self-reflection and objectivity to see that their accomplishments likely would not have been possible without the assistance of various people and institutions external to themselves.
It’s all too easy to see failures in our lives as purely or predominantly due to outside (external) forces, and successes in our lives as purely or predominantly due to inside ____ forces.
Therefore, we must know ____ credit must be given and shared.
Apple’s success wasn’t exclusively Steve Jobs’s, nor was ____ success exclusively Bill Gates’s.
Santa has thousands of little helpers who ____ him to achieve the impossible.
It takes a team of people (or ____ and a huge network for us to accomplish anything.
4 집단적 인식론
____ tend to believe people who share our beliefs without taking the time to fact-check all the information.
With the emergence of ____ politics’, this has given rise to the recent phenomenon of fake news.
Anything that doesn’t conform to ____ tribe’s views is rejected and labelled as fake news.
It is not always falsified information, but it is often opinions that differ hugely from our ____ that are labelled fake news by politicians and the media alike.
Jonathan Freedland in the Guardianterms it a new kind of cognitive bias called Tribal Epistemology, which is when the truth no longer corresponds to facts or evidence but rather when a specific assertion agrees with the viewpoint of ____ tribe or social group one belongs to.
The boundaries between ‘works ____ us’ or ‘good for us’ and ‘true’ have blurred.
Of course, this isn’t a new phenomenon; we have been ____ ourselves into tribes since the beginning of human evolution.
It has just been ignited by the recent political climate, media and technology, and by our tendency to believe in stories and narratives rather than ____ Everyone loves a good story.
5 모호함에 대처하는 자세
Ambiguity is ____ uncomfortable feeling for most people.
As such, it’s one that we tend to quickly misattribute, concluding that something ____ be wrong.
But in fact, ambiguity ____ be a productive, even positive state.
When we conduct research, we try to ____ ourselves, our students, and our colleagues to enjoy a state of ambiguity.
The logic is that when we don’t know the answer, ____ knowledge can arise, so it is best to go slowly, think carefully, and enjoy the process of trying to find out what is going on.
____ this love of ambiguity is an uncommon mindset.
Usually we ____ quick and clear answers, especially when we are stressed.
For some people, this antipathy ____ ambiguity contributes to their descent into misbelief.
The ability not to rush to conclusions, to keep multiple hypotheses in mind, and to remain open to new information and possibilities is key to not getting ____ into misbelief.
We tend to admire ____ seek out conviction and confidence.
But we would be better served if we learned to admire and ____ a state of ambiguity.
6 인공 지능에 대한 투자
____ leaders in companies, nonprofits, or governments invest in artificial intelligence, much of their attention goes to hiring machine learning experts or paying for tools.
But this ____ a critical opportunity.
For organizations to get the most that they can from AI, they should also ____ investing in helping all of their team members to understand the technology better.
Understanding ____ learning can make an employee more likely to spot potential applications in their own work.
Many of the most promising uses for machine learning will be humdrum, and this is where technology can be at its most useful: saving people time, so that ____ can concentrate on the many tasks at which they outperform machines.
An executive assistant who has a better understanding of machine learning might suggest that calendar ____ learn more explicitly from patterns that develop over time, reminding them when their boss has not met with a team member for an unusually long time.
A calendar that learns patterns could give an executive assistant more time for the human specialties of the job, such as helping their boss to manage ____ team.
7 디지털 시대의 라디오의 가치
It’s a useful cliche, ____ by practitioners and radio educators alike, that radio is ‘theatre of the mind’.
By telling ____ using words, music and sound effects, radio can engage the imagination to communicate ideas and images that create a kind of narrative uniquely experienced by each individual listener.
Through the omission of visual cues and by embracing the openness of the work, radio storytelling has the capacity to make personal connections, paint pictures with sound, and indeed create scenes that would be impossible ____ another context.
The capacity of audio as a medium for imaginative and ____ storytelling is undiminished in the digital age, although the production, distribution and consumption cultures and technologies through which those stories are mediated have radically changed.
In fact the possibilities for radiophonic narrative are in many ways expanded in the digital age, as research engineers, professionals and enthusiasts explore the parameters of new production processes, platforms ____ interactive opportunities, as well as opportunities for radio storytelling to be taken outside the realm of the radio professional.
9 탐험가 Barbara Hillary
Barbara Hillary was born in 1931 in New York City and ____ in Harlem.
Her family was poor, but ____ was encouraged to read.
She majored in gerontology at the New ____ in New York City, and after graduating she became a nurse and worked for fifty-five years before retiring.
At age ____ Hillary was diagnosed with lung cancer, which required surgery to remove.
The surgery ____ in a 25 percent reduction in her breathing ability, but she would not let this stop her.
She became interested in the North ____ after visiting Canada and taking pictures of polar bears.
In the spring of 2007, at the age of 75, she became the oldest woman and ____ first African-American woman to ski to the North Pole.
She reached the South Pole in 2011 at the age of 79, becoming the first African-American woman ____ reach both poles.