2026 수특 영독연 3강 변형문제 (1~6번)

What is said is ____ a mere repetition.

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

____ one says is therefore in each case 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 what the ____ has borrowed from parents, guides, friends, books, fashions, etc.,

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

Worry is often the recognition of ____.

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

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

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

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

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

It’s understandable — it’s likely born out of a tireless ____ 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, ____ get trapped in thought rather than called to action.

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, embedded in the tech ____.

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

Some rules are commonplace, like the rule that you ____ access this system without the correct password.

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

Software engineers are becoming ____ engineers.

It wasn’t really until the ____ ’70s and early ’80s that the concept of brands began to extend into all areas of business.

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

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

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 ____ represented you — the very notion of shopping as a form of personal expression.

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

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

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

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

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

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 sense phenomena is thus misleading in some ____.

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

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

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

Likewise, an academic culture grows ____ 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 ____ 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” ____ who poison the air with mean-spirited reviews.

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

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