EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어
11강 어법 정확성 파악
Gateway 뇌의 자동 조종 기능이 우리의 일상에 도움을 주는 방식
Think of yourself. ____ you decide to get up and get a drink of water, for example, you don’t consciously organize or consider the host of steps involved.
Imagine if we had to consider every single ____ that needed to be contracted or relaxed just to stand up and walk.
It would be tiresome and very slow — as patients ____ from a brain injury affecting the motor system know.
The autopilot parts of our brain do it for us automatically, freeing up our conscious mind for ____ important jobs.
It is the older parts of our brain that support these automatic processes that allow us to move, hear, ____ and use many of our social skills.
More recently evolved abilities ____ talking, reading, and writing are far less automated.
So, most ____ the time, what you are perceiving, feeling, or thinking is based on a very crude and fast analysis that happens completely without your awareness.
1 친환경 마케팅과 그 관행
Green marketing tries to overcome consumer distrust to induce positive associations ____ businesses and the natural environment.
Such marketers often make claims ____ are vague, irrelevant, misleading, or unprovable.
Common techniques include using words that imply sustainability (clean, clear, natural, pure), images of nature, brown ____ green color schemes, and recycled- or organic-looking content.
Companies sometimes promote a ____ image by sponsoring Earth Day events and making donations to ecological charities, or facilitating customers doing so.
Some of these practices, aesthetics, and vocabulary were once emblematic of alternative media, many ____ which are driven by a sincere green ethos.
Green ____ has become so suspect that some businesses avoid the term.
Instead, they label their activities “sustainability communication,” which ideally engages audiences in supporting operational changes that substantially decrease a business’s environmental footprint ____ contribute to solving social problems.
2 시와 수학의 압축 방식 차이
Both poetry ____ mathematics are hard to understand.
The reason for students’ difficulties is almost always the same: the teacher doesn’t say all that he ____ He skips things.
Even if he is aware of ____ that came before, he doesn’t have the time to spell them all out.
Conveying a lot of information in a single statement is what compression is ____ about.
And it ____ this type of compression that is responsible for the difficulty in understanding poetry and mathematics.
But there is a significant difference between ____ two: the compression in mathematics is vertical, while poetical compression is horizontal.
In other words, in ____ many stages, built like floors one upon the other, are hidden within a single statement.
In poetry, many distinct ideas, not necessarily vertically ____ are compressed into one expression.
This is why the vague understanding of poetry causes no harm, while a hazy comprehension of mathematics gets back at us in a ____ stage, when the next floor is built.
3 뇌의 정보 처리 및 기억 방식
We do not recollect events exactly ____ we experienced them.
Most often, our recollection of an event differs substantially from the actual ____
This is because the way the ____ processes and stores information differs from how a computer works.
For example, we tend ____ extract the gist and meaning from our experiences so that what we infer may be mixed up with what we actually experience.
If we hear a list of words related to sleep (e.g., bed, rest, awake, etc.), we tend to recollect “sleep” as being on ____ list, even though it is not.
Also, unlike a computer recovering a file, some memories can interfere with the retrieval of ____ memories.
If ____ long time has elapsed since experiencing a particular event, and if you have experienced similar events several times since the original experience, chances are you would find it difficult to recollect the original event exactly as it happened; your memory of the original event may get mixed up with memories of related events.
4 권력과 권력욕
Power is ____ common form of the urge for control.
There is an entire social science, political science, devoted to studying power — and that is a persuasive ____ that it is an important and fundamental aspect of human life.
Power essentially involves control over other ____
Researcher ____ G. Winter defined it as the ability to produce intended effects on another person’s actions or emotions.
Some may seek power as a means to an end, such as on the assumption that once one is elected, one will be able to bring about ____ much-wanted changes.
But others probably seek power ____ its own sake and derive satisfaction directly from being able to make other people change the way they act.
Actually, the ____ goal of people with a high craving for power appears to be that they want to have an impact on other people’s lives, which does not necessarily mean making people do things.
Having an impact can be for good or ill, and a person with a high desire for power may enjoy giving money to a struggling family simply because it is satisfying ____ see how much she was able to change that family’s life.