2026 수특 영독연 3강 변형문제 (1~6번)

What is said is never a mere ____.

Even if one agrees ____ for word with something that has been said before, everything — the world, the speaker, the circumstances, the addressee, and the meaning of what was said — has changed.

What one says is therefore in each ____ unique.

Although most of our ____ are unoriginal, they show through their particular, even unique, style (which can be dull, ugly, or trivial) that someone has appropriated and therewith personalized them.

Every ____ proves that the author has changed a received gift into a thought of her own.

An analysis of what is one’s own might then reveal much of ____ the speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,

while at the same time disclosing how all these influences have ____ into the unique results of what the author said.

Worry is often the ____ of incompleteness.

In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt continuously swirling around ____, a question rises to the surface of your awareness.

And in that moment of ____, you might choose to solve the mystery.

You engage in worrying, hoping ____ hope that you’ll finally nail down the unsolvable questions troubling your life.

Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a ____ thread running through many aspects of worrying.

The quest for a ____ and satisfying resolution frequently drives this behavior.

It’s understandable — it’s likely born out of a tireless commitment to do better, driven by a willingness to pursue the important things in your life — but worrying begins to ____ from that path.

Despite your good intentions, you get trapped in thought rather than called to ____.

In the early days of the commercial internet, scholars discovered that, in cyberspace, computer code operated as a kind of ‘____’.

Not law as we know it — public rules decided by legislators and judges — but a different kind of law, ____ in the tech itself.

Whenever we use an app, platform, smartphone or computer, we have no choice but to follow the strict rules that are ____ into these technologies.

Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that ____ cannot access this system without the correct password.

Hence the young man who lost more than ＄____ million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.

Other ____ are more controversial.

In late 2020, one social media platform made it impossible for users to share a controversial article containing ____ of corruption about a public figure’s son, on the basis that it violated the platform’s rules against sharing hacked material.

As more and more of our actions, interactions and transactions are mediated through digital technology, those who ____ code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.

____ engineers are becoming social engineers.

It ____ really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend into all areas of business.

As ____ were privatized, markets opened up and competition became fiercer, so the need to differentiate your business became greater.

Utilities, telecoms providers, banks, insurance companies and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing the power of ____.

As brand owners fought for space in your mind, ____ became incredibly influential.

The focus was on imbuing products and services with meaning so that you as the customer could surround yourself with the brands that best represented you — the very notion of shopping as a form of personal ____.

Even businesses serving other ____ began to realize that having a brand was an important business support.

Brands were now seen as more ____ just a logo or a tagline; they were seen as opportunities to create meaning.

There are many ordinary, ____ situations like the following example.

A straight stick put in water looks bent; yet we do not believe it has become bent just ____ it was immersed in water, which is an easily penetrable liquid.

Railroad tracks seem to converge in the distance, and yet when we walk to the spot where they apparently merged we find them to be ____.

The wheels of automobiles seen on television seem to be going ____ when the automobile is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.

Such examples of distorted perception could be multiplied endlessly. Each of these ____ phenomena is thus misleading in some way.

If human beings were to accept the world as being exactly how it looks, they ____ be deceived as to how things really are.

They would think the stick in water really to be bent, the ____ on pages really to be reversed, and the wheels really to be going backward.

According to an ancient Greek proverb, “A society grows great when old men ____ trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”

Likewise, an academic culture grows great when senior scholars perform acts of ____ for junior academics who may never know their names.

Literary scholar and poet Lesley Wheeler remains “endlessly grateful” to the two ____ readers whose thoughtful responses to her first book manuscript set her on the path to becoming a successful scholar:

“They told me bluntly what was wrong with the book, but they ____ found the time to praise it; and that was enough encouragement.”

Having benefited from the welcoming shelter of ____ trees planted by others, Wheeler has little patience for “cranky” referees who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.

She takes care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and ____ is always gracious and constructive:

“The conscientiousness and generosity that I’ve seen directed at my work is ____ that I want to pay back.”