2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 2강 변형문제 (1~6번)

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

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

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

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

The ____ of these conflicting 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 patterns is much harder for people learning English as a ____ language, who often exhibit “stress deafness.”

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

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

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

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

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

The ingredients in the product are ____ box.

____ most important box of 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.

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

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

Or try to change the dimensions of the ____

But at its very essence, advertising ____ 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 ____ 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 less, into autotrophs and heterotrophs, organisms that exploit energy from the sun ____ chemical reactions, and organisms that take energy from those who’ve already captured it.

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

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

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

In other ____ we change our tools rather than our bodies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Local news in particular ____ increasingly under threat.

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

To retain high levels of profitability, media corporations have closed or merged titles and cut jobs, often moving journalists long distances away from the communities they serve and no longer being able to provide ____ 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 ____ had to adapt — or in many cases die out.

Ancient woodland exists only in ____ pieces in Britain now.

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

They need specific protection. New habitats have been created with their ____ 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 ____ with higher salt deposits support salt-loving plants otherwise found along the coast.

____ provide abundant road-kill for scavengers.

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 conserve is ____ natural environment we have in part created.

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

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

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

When ____ occurs, 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 end up behaving in ways that achieve the goals of those programmers rather than behaving in ways that ____ make you happier.

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