2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is ____ is never a mere repetition.
Even if one agrees word for word with something that has been said before, ____ — the world, the speaker, the circumstances, the addressee, and the meaning of what was said — has changed.
What one says is therefore in each case ____.
Although most of our statements are unoriginal, they show through their ____, 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 ____ is one’s own might then reveal much of what 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.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is often the recognition of ____.
In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt ____ swirling around you, a question rises to the surface of your awareness.
And in that moment of recognition, ____ might choose to solve the mystery.
You engage in worrying, hoping against hope that you’ll finally nail down the ____ questions troubling your life.
Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a ____ thread running through many aspects of worrying.
The quest for a neat and satisfying resolution ____ drives this behavior.
It’s understandable — it’s likely ____ out of a tireless commitment to do better, driven by a willingness to pursue the important things in your life — but worrying begins to deviate from that path.
Despite your good intentions, you ____ trapped in thought rather than called to action.
3 코드를 작성하는 엔지니어와 그 영향력
In the early days of the commercial internet, scholars discovered that, in ____, computer code operated as a kind of ‘law’.
Not law as we know it — ____ rules decided by legislators and judges — but a different kind of law, embedded in the tech itself.
Whenever we use an app, platform, smartphone or computer, we ____ no choice but to follow the strict rules that are coded into these technologies.
Some rules are ____, like the rule that you cannot access this system without the correct password.
Hence the young man ____ lost more than ＄200 million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.
Other rules are more ____.
In late 2020, one social media platform made it impossible for users to share a controversial article containing allegations of corruption about a public figure’s son, on the ____ 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 write ____ increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.
Software engineers are ____ social engineers.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
It wasn’t really until the late ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to ____ into all areas of business.
As entities were privatized, markets opened up and competition became ____, so the need to differentiate your business became greater.
Utilities, telecoms providers, ____, insurance companies and airlines were all now enthusiastically embracing the power of branding.
As brand owners fought for ____ in your mind, advertising 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 ____ as a form of personal expression.
Even businesses ____ other businesses began to realize that having a brand was an important business support.
Brands were now ____ as more than just a logo or a tagline; they were seen as opportunities to create meaning.
5 인간을 오도할 수 있는 왜곡된 감각 현상
There are ____ ordinary, daily-life situations like the following example.
A straight stick put in water looks bent; yet we do not believe it has become bent just because it was immersed in water, ____ 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 ____ to be parallel.
The wheels of automobiles seen on television seem to be going backward when the ____ is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.
Such examples of distorted perception could be multiplied endlessly. Each of these sense phenomena is ____ misleading in some way.
If ____ beings were to accept the world as being exactly how it looks, they would be deceived as to how things really are.
They ____ think the stick in water really to be bent, the writing on pages really to be reversed, and the wheels really to be going backward.
6 선배 학자들의 지원과 안내
According to an ancient ____ proverb, “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
Likewise, an academic culture ____ great when senior scholars perform acts of generosity for junior academics who may never know their names.
Literary scholar and poet ____ Wheeler remains “endlessly grateful” to the two anonymous readers whose thoughtful responses to her first book manuscript set her on the path to becoming a successful scholar:
“They told me bluntly ____ was wrong with the book, but they also found the time to praise it; and that was enough encouragement.”
Having benefited from the welcoming shelter of shade trees planted by others, Wheeler has little patience for “cranky” referees who poison the ____ with mean-spirited reviews.
She ____ care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and students is always gracious and constructive:
“The ____ and generosity that I’ve seen directed at my work is something that I want to pay back.”