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 ____ to avoid the wrong ones are major ways in which animals keep themselves healthy.
Animals have ____ many different ways 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 dealing with injury and ____ before they even happen.
They ____ evolved a complex set of mechanisms for anticipating and avoiding danger altogether.
They can ____ pre-emptive action so that the worst never happens.
They start to want things that will be ____ for their health and survival 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 reflect their caloric ____: the number of calories our bodies can actually metabolize from those foods.
University of Cambridge researcher Giles ____ asserts that understanding caloric 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 digestion and ____, as opposed to the number of calories that are locked up in the food.”
That is, while a food may ____ one hundred calories in it, our bodies may be able to digest only a portion of those.
Accordingly, Yeo argues, every calorie count on every nutrition ____ and restaurant menu is, at worst, false and, at best, misleading.
2 영화 속 강력한 공감 요소로서 등장인물의 반응
When viewing a film, in order for us to understand and internalise a situation, it can be seen that it is not necessary for us to ____ completely, or even at all, with the protagonist.
Indeed, the viewer only ____ to have a sense of why the protagonist’s response is appropriate to their situation.
If we consider this in respect of — for example — horror films, we do this most easily when supernatural entities appear; we understand ____, for instance, a character might run from a haunted house.
Especially in circumstances where we share the same culture as the protagonist, we can easily establish why the characters we are watching find ____ or horrible monsters unnatural.
In ____ of illness in film, the same is true.
We do not need to identify entirely with the ____ to be able to understand and internalise their responses to illness — only that illness and disease is a universal threat.
Character reactions, therefore, often become the most powerful ____ element in film.
3 해조류의 다양한 용도
Seaweeds are known for their use in diverse applications. Being the first ____ in the marine food chain, they provide nutrients to animals both in water and land.
They are used as a protein source, flavor ____, for reducing blood sugar, making medicines for colds, coughs, 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 found to improve the health of the ____ ecosystem where they grow.
Overall, they are good both for the economy and the ocean ecosystem, as they provide a safe and healthy ground for ____ life.
Their presence also acts as an obstacle to the sea bottom trawlers, ____ protecting the seafloor and the fragile environment of the region.