2026 수능특강 영어 27강 변형문제

Truth is essential for progress and the development of knowledge, as it serves as the foundation ____ which reliable and accurate understanding is built.

However, one of the greatest threats to the ____ of knowledge can now be found on social media platforms.

As social media becomes a primary source of information for millions, its unregulated nature ____ misinformation to spread rapidly.

Social media users may unknowingly participate in creating and circulating misinformation, which can influence elections, cause ____, and create widespread panic, as seen in various global incidents.

As creators and consumers, it is our responsibility to take on a greater ____ in the enhancement of fact-checking protocols in order to ensure accuracy.

It is critical that participants safeguard the reliability of ____, supporting a more informed and rational public community.

In media, the echo chamber ____ arises in a situation where information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an “enclosed” system, often drowning out different or competing views.

Big data sources utilising web ____ are particularly prone to this effect.

People using web forums and ____ often surround themselves with voices that echo similar opinions to their own.

Diverging ____ are ignored, marginalised or dismissed as ‘trolls’. This has the effect of distorting what is then considered to be the general consensus.

This theory of cognitive dissonance, ____ humans strive for internal consistency, is well-established.

When we experience inconsistency (____), we become psychologically distressed and will try to avoid and/or reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance.

The implications for big data are clear — ____ data-sets may be heavily biased and require significant interpretation before conclusions can be drawn.

Although computer ____ and mathematicians tend to be talented at computer science and math, as a group they tend not to be sensitive to the nuances of language.

If ____ needs a name, they don’t obsess over picking the perfect name that has ideal connotations and Latin roots and what have you.

They just pick a ____, usually one that has to do with something they like.

Python, the programming language, is named after Monty Python the comedy troupe (Monty Python is the ur-comedy text in computer ____, like Star Wars is the ur-narrative text.)

Django, a web framework, is named after Django Reinhardt, the jazz ____, a favorite of the Django framework’s inventor.

Java, the programming ____, is named after coffee. JavaScript, an unrelated language, was invented around the same time as Java and is also (unfortunately) named after coffee.

In communications services, when “picture phones” were introduced in 1963 at the New York World’s Fair, an American telecom giant, ____ had been at the forefront of designing and introducing the technology, estimated that there would be 10 million such phones in use in America by 1980.

But the real number in that year was ____ to zero.

Thirty ____ later, with smartphones, laptops, tablets, and camera-equipped desktop computers, personal video penetration was at the other extreme, at 230 million.

Similarly, at one time mobile phones connected by satellites were widely ____ by experts to be the next Big Thing.

In 1998, The Wall Street ____ enthusiastically claimed that “the consensus forecast by media analysts is of 30 million satellite phone subscribers by 2006.”

The reality, ____, was vastly more modest than these experts predicted.

Such satellite phones, aside from some subsidized national security applications, are mostly used as rental ____ on adventure travel, and even that niche has been rapidly contested by alternatives.