2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강 변형문제 (1~6번)

We are able to speak and comprehend language with great skill despite its quasiregularity — indeed, ____ of it.

____ requires shared knowledge, and so languages must be systematic rather than arbitrary.

However, the demands of comprehending and producing language require additional flexibility because speakers produce forms that ____ from standard patterns and listeners must be able to comprehend them.

Many shortcuts that promote fluent speech eventually enter the language, such as “gonna,” “hafta,” and “tryna,” which ____ overlap with the source words.

The product of these conflicting pressures is ____.

These patterns can be mastered with extensive practice, which is easy to obtain if ____ grown up speaking a language and become a fluent reader.

Mastering stress patterns is much harder for people learning English as a second ____, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”

You know how people always tell you to “think ____ the box”? Well, I hate that expression.

I get the broader meaning of the phrase: to look for unexpected solutions that ____ convention.

Nothing wrong with that. But to me, advertising is all ____ thinking INSIDE the box.

And ____ is full of boxes — or limitations, frameworks, and concrete realities.

The ____ is a box. The dimensions of the page are a box.

The ____ in the product are a box.

The most important box of ____ is the strategy.

If you can come up with a great creative idea that fits within the confines of the strategy, then you’re a ____.

Come up with a great idea that’s wildly ____ the mark and NOT strategic, then you’re an artist, not an advertiser.

This is not to say that you can’t ____ against the box.

Or ____ to change the dimensions of the box.

But at its very essence, advertising can only truly be advertising when it is a ____ outgrowth of the box.

The cleverest among us ____ that the greatest fun of advertising is seeing how far we can go with an idea, an execution, a new media placement and still be in the box.

Life on our planet can be arranged, more or ____, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun or chemical reactions, and organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.

What is unusual about our species is that we’ve ____ able to use more and more energy without having to evolve into a different species.

____ achieved this through a combination of social learning, complex culture, and technologies.

We don’t have to speciate to gain the ____ of an allosaurus; we can share information to design a warhead or a power station.

In other words, we change our tools ____ than our bodies.

Fire and spears did the trick for hundreds of thousands of years, until we devised the domestication of our food ____.

The next big shift came in the mechanisation of processes that gave us the Industrial ____.

This enabled us to draw ____ deposits of organic energy out of the Earth and burn them.

Media institutions across the globe are ____ multiple crises: of funding, trust, representation, accountability and legitimacy.

In many of the countries that make up capitalism’s core, the newspaper and magazine industry is in serious decline as ____ digital intermediaries take over the majority of advertising revenue.

Much of the debate about the sustainability of the news industry circulates ____ debates relating to this ‘broken business model’.

Local news in ____ is increasingly under threat.

In the UK, the majority of the population (57.9%) is no longer ____ by a local daily newspaper.

To retain high levels of profitability, media corporations have ____ or merged titles and cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the communities they serve and no longer being able to provide content of relevance to them.

In ____, a profit-driven response means media become ever more unsustainable.

The complexity of human intervention in nature means that the ecosystems have ____ to adapt — or in many cases die out.

____ woodland exists only in small pieces in Britain now.

Many of these remnants are enclosed in nature ____ and national parks.

They need ____ protection. New habitats have been created with their own ecosystems.

The urbanization of the landscape and the creation of ____ and railway corridors have given us the garden habitats that many species thrive in.

Motorway roadsides with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found ____ the coast.

Roads provide ____ road-kill for scavengers.

These may be poor substitutes for ____ they replace, but they are habitats that can add more if properly managed.

The ____ environment we may seek to conserve is the natural environment we have in part created.

For ____ of us, our minds have been programmed by a combination of factors — our friends, our parents, the mass media, and advertisers.

Some of these agents of programming truly know you and have your best interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and ____ you overcome your troublesome weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and make your life better.

Other agents of programming are ____ to use you as a tool to achieve their goals, which are often very different from your own goals.

When this ____, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems you don’t have and make worse the problems you do have.

When you allow others to dominate the programming of your mind, then when your mind runs on automatic pilot, you ____ up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that would make you happier.

Therefore, it is important that ____ periodically examine the code that has been programmed into your mind.