2026 수능특강 영어독해연습 3강
1 개인화되고 고유한 말
What is said is never a ____ repetition.
Even if ____ agrees word 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 ____ each case unique.
Although most ____ our statements 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 sentence proves that the author has ____ a received gift into a thought of her own.
An analysis of what is one’s own might then reveal much of what the speaker has borrowed from parents, guides, ____ books, fashions, etc.,
while at the same time disclosing how all these influences have converged into the unique results of ____ the author said.
2 불확실성에 대한 조바심
Worry is often the recognition of ____
In a world marred by uncertainty, doubt continuously swirling around you, a question rises to the surface of your ____
And in that moment of recognition, ____ might choose to solve the mystery.
You engage in worrying, hoping against hope that you’ll finally nail ____ the unsolvable questions troubling your life.
Uncertainty, or rather, the impatience with uncertainty, is a common thread running through many aspects ____ worrying.
The quest for a neat and satisfying resolution frequently ____ 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 ____ deviate from that path.
Despite your good intentions, you get trapped in thought rather than called ____ action.
3 코드를 작성하는 엔지니어와 그 영향력
In the early days of the commercial internet, ____ discovered that, in cyberspace, computer code operated as a kind of ‘law’.
Not law as we know it — public rules decided by legislators and judges — ____ a different kind of law, embedded 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 coded ____ these technologies.
Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that you cannot access this system without the correct ____
____ the young man who lost more than ＄200 million because he couldn’t remember the password to his virtual currency wallet.
Other rules are ____ controversial.
In late 2020, one social media platform made it impossible for ____ to share a controversial article containing allegations 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 ____ write code increasingly write the rules by which the rest of us live.
____ engineers are becoming social engineers.
4 의미를 창출하는 브랜드
It wasn’t really ____ 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, ____ providers, banks, 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 shopping as a form of ____ expression.
Even businesses serving other businesses began to realize that having a brand was an important ____ support.
Brands were now seen as more than just a logo or a tagline; they were seen as opportunities ____ create meaning.
5 인간을 오도할 수 있는 왜곡된 감각 현상
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 because it was ____ 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 ____ parallel.
The wheels of automobiles seen on ____ seem to be going backward when the automobile is seen to be moving forward. Yet this is impossible.
Such ____ of distorted perception could be multiplied endlessly. Each of these sense phenomena is thus misleading in some way.
If human beings were to accept ____ world as being exactly how it looks, they would be deceived as to how things really are.
They would think ____ 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 Greek proverb, “A society grows ____ when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
Likewise, an academic ____ grows great when senior scholars perform acts of generosity for junior academics who may never know their names.
Literary scholar and poet Lesley Wheeler remains “endlessly grateful” to the two anonymous readers whose thoughtful responses to her first ____ manuscript set her on the path to becoming a successful scholar:
“They told me bluntly what was wrong ____ 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 takes care to ensure that her own feedback to colleagues and students is ____ gracious and constructive:
“The conscientiousness and ____ that I’ve seen directed at my work is something that I want to pay back.”