EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어
30강 의학, 건강, 영양, 식품
Gateway 동물의 건강 유지 방식
The generally close connection between health and what animals want exists because wanting to obtain the right things and wanting to avoid the wrong ones are major ways in which ____ keep themselves healthy.
Animals have evolved many different ____ of maintaining their health and then regaining it again once it has been damaged, such as an ability to heal wounds when they are injured and an amazingly complex immune system for warding off infection.
Animals are equally good, however, at ____ with injury and disease before they even happen.
They have evolved a ____ set of mechanisms for anticipating and avoiding danger altogether.
They can take pre-emptive action so that the ____ never happens.
They start to want things that will be necessary for their health and ____ not for now but for some time in the future.
1 열량 정보 표시의 맹점
Calorie counts and labels, it seems, have always been shaped by social ____ about fatness.
And while those labels do reflect the number of calories in a particular food, they don’t ____ their caloric availability: the number of calories our bodies can actually metabolize from those foods.
University of Cambridge researcher Giles Yeo asserts that understanding ____ availability is central to understanding the science of weight and metabolism.
“Caloric availability is the amount of calories that can actually be extracted during the process of ____ and metabolism, as opposed to the number of calories that are locked up in the food.”
That is, ____ a food may have one hundred calories in it, our bodies may be able to digest only a portion of those.
Accordingly, Yeo argues, every calorie ____ on every nutrition label and restaurant menu is, at worst, false and, at best, misleading.
2 영화 속 강력한 공감 요소로서 등장인물의 반응
When viewing a ____, in order for us to understand and internalise a situation, it can be seen that it is not necessary for us to identify completely, or even at all, with the protagonist.
Indeed, the viewer only needs to have a sense of why the protagonist’s response is appropriate to their ____.
If we consider this in respect of — for example — horror films, we do this most easily when supernatural entities appear; we understand why, for instance, a ____ might run from a haunted house.
Especially in circumstances where we share the same ____ as the protagonist, we can easily establish why the characters we are watching find supernatural or horrible monsters unnatural.
In respect of ____ in film, the same is true.
We do not need to identify entirely with the protagonist to be able to understand and internalise their responses to illness — only that illness and disease is a universal ____.
Character reactions, ____, often become the most powerful empathetic element in film.
3 해조류의 다양한 용도
Seaweeds are known for their use in diverse applications. Being the first organism in the marine food chain, they provide ____ to animals both in water and land.
They are used as a protein source, flavor supplement, for reducing blood sugar, making medicines for colds, ____, etc., preventing obesity, as animal feed, as a source of biofuel, for biogas production, gelling, thickening, and stabilizing agents, treatment of wastewater, and many more.
While the seaweeds have a variety of uses, they are considered to be environment friendly and are ____ to improve the health of the marine ecosystem where they grow.
Overall, they are good both for the ____ and the ocean ecosystem, as they provide a safe and healthy ground for marine life.
Their presence also acts as an ____ to the sea bottom trawlers, thereby protecting the seafloor and the fragile environment of the region.