2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강 변형문제 (1~6번)

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

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

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

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

The product of these ____ pressures is quasiregularity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ingredients in the ____ are a box.

The most important box ____ all is the strategy.

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

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

This is not to say that you ____ wail against the box.

Or try to change the ____ of the box.

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

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

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

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

We’ve achieved this through a ____ of social learning, complex culture, and technologies.

We don’t have to speciate to gain the claws of an allosaurus; we ____ 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 ____ of thousands of years, until we devised the domestication of our food sources.

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

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

____ institutions across the globe are facing 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 large digital intermediaries ____ 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 particular ____ increasingly under threat.

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

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

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

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

____ woodland exists only in small pieces in Britain now.

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

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

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

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

Roads provide abundant road-kill for ____

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

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

For most of ____ 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 ____ interests in mind as they reinforce your special strengths and help you overcome your troublesome weaknesses; they are trying to make you happier and make your life better.

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

When this occurs, the programming makes you less and less happy as they “help” you solve problems you don’t have ____ 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 end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that ____ make you happier.

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