2026 수능특강 영어 6강 변형문제

The arrival of ____ Industrial Age changed the relationship among time, labor, and capital.

Factories could produce around the clock, and they could do so with greater speed and volume ____ ever before.

A machine that runs twelve hours a ____ will produce more widgets than one that runs for only eight hours per day — and a machine that runs twenty-four hours per day will produce the most widgets of all.

As such, at many factories, the workday is divided into eight-hour shifts, so that there will ____ be people on hand to keep the widget machines humming.

Industrialization raised the potential value of every single work hour — the ____ hours you worked, the more widgets you produced, and the more money you made — and thus wages became tied to effort and production.

Labor, previously guided by harvest ____ became clock-oriented, and society started to reorganize around new principles of productivity.

In marketing research, consumers commonly participate in interviews, focus ____ or the like, during which they indicate their desires, preferences, or in marketing terms, their wants.

____ methods also try to detect the consumers’ (subconscious) emotions, however with varying rates of success.

Such behavioural methods, where humans watch how fellow humans react when, e.g., exposed to a certain brand or ____ manually coding and categorizing their emotions, are labour intensive, and consequently are rarely applied or applied in small sample sizes.

Human-inspired AI makes such methods possible on large scale, and even delivering instantaneous results will ____ possible.

For example, via facial ____ in a supermarket, one might detect shoppers’ emotions facing a shelf displaying the products of a new product launch.

Collecting a vast amount ____ data from all supermarkets participating in the respective launch nationwide would yield quite solid results.

Deborah Harris and Patti Giuffre’s study of representations of chefs in US ____ media finds significant differences between how male and female chefs are portrayed.

Great male chefs are repeatedly represented as ____ creative and highly trained professionals and often depicted as ‘iconoclastic’ rule breakers with a unique vision or style.

In contrast, female professional chefs are often judged in terms of homestyle cooking which ‘devalues the training and skill required’ and, by representing ____ food as ‘amateur and homely’, links them to a domestic tradition rather than the professional standards which are crucial to recognition in the culinary field.

In this ____ the operations of the culinary field reproduce gender inequalities by valuing qualities associated with a masculine tradition more highly and excluding women from criteria used to classify ‘great chefs’.

This limits a female chef’s ability to gain recognition and to accrue the economic, cultural and symbolic rewards that recognition ____

It is sometimes argued that the spread of digital technology will ____ to equalize opportunity for small companies as well as established media giants.

Digitization and the growth of the Internet are indeed reducing many barriers to market entry and creating opportunities for smaller enterprises and firms offering skills in new forms of content creation (such as ____ games).

However, the digital environment favours strong ____ recognizable brands.

In ____ words of one UK publishing executive, ‘brands make it easier for the customer to make choices as the world gets more complicated’.

Without recognizable brands and worthwhile levels of consumer awareness, potential newcomers to the online universe may well find that the high initial costs ____ in establishing an online presence (typically involving extensive campaigns on conventional media) represent an effective deterrent to market entry.

Large and established media content providers with strong brands and access to valuable back catalogues of images, text and sound have several advantages when it comes to exploitation ____ the additional scale economies made possible by digitization.

People are confronted with the cognitive dissonance aroused by the thought that one has stereotypes of others that guide ____ social judgments, and the thought that one is a good, fair, and rational thinker.

According to dissonance theory, ____ of these cognitions must change in order for dissonance to be eased. Which one changes?

It is almost always the cognition that is ____ open to change, and in this case it is one’s cognitions about stereotyping.

Rather than think that we use stereotypes to evaluate others, we simply do not allow ourselves to come ____ such a conclusion,

and we instead convince ourselves that we are indeed a fair, logical thinker by making our social judgments after a considered assessment of the ____ about the target individual.

In other words, we often either do not realize, or ____ not consciously acknowledge, that we do indeed stereotype others, or that our stereotype-derived impressions of them might be inaccurate.

This self-delusion helps us maintain our stereotypes ____ reducing the possibility for cognitive dissonance related to our self-concept.