EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어 Test 1
1 사내 소문으로 인한 동요 자제 안내
Dear employees, Word has reached the fourth floor that some employees fear that because of economic hard times and serices cutbacks, their jobs may be eliminated and they may become ____ right before Christmas.
Figures range from 10 percent to 35 percent of all staff, ____ on which rumor you hear.
While these are, indeed, hard times for our industry, management has no plans to cut ____ before the end of the year, or even during the first quarter of next year.
Cost-cutting measures to counterbalance ____ financial downturn are currently underway, and have been for some time.
If you are still concerned about the security of your job or this organization, please ____ to your supervisor.
____ value all of you and the work you do.
Eliminating your services would ____ our very last resort.
2 사촌의 반응에 실망하는 Gloria
When her cousin Jess visited, Gloria couldn’t wait to ____ her to Stylist Visions, a bright boutique filled with clothes and jewelry.
Upon arriving at Stylist Visions, Gloria told Jess that she would love the ____ and offered to help her choose clothes.
Twenty minutes later, they had toured the entire shop, and a pile of clothes was waiting for them in the ____ rooms, including clothes Gloria had picked out for Jess.
She thought that ____ would look great on Jess.
“Okay!” Gloria said, “Let’s go and try them on! You’ll ____ fantastic in that pink skirt!”
At that moment, however, Jess told her that she wasn’t going to ____ anything on.
“What did you say?” “I’m not going to try anything ____ Jess repeated.
“But you ____ ahead. I’ll wait here.”
____ couldn’t believe her ears and her spirits sank.
Gloria realized Jess didn’t like her ____
Gloria concluded that ____ had been quiet because she wanted to be polite.
3 혁신의 모든 변수에 대한 유연한 대처
New-value creation is a leap of faith, ____ a high degree of failure is expected.
If you study the most innovative companies you can think of, you will find that they have had more ____ than successes, more misses than hits.
____ you deal with failure is the main feature of an innovation biome.
No one knows beforehand what will work or be successful, so you need to expose yourself and your customers ____ a breadth of ideas and solutions.
The business model of an innovation is uncertain, and while ____ might attempt to reduce this uncertainty, innovation needs to run freely and with flexibility.
Companies should not assume they know whether an innovation will work, how ____ will be used, who exactly will use it, or how it will be monetized.
All of these variables need to be fluid, and the organization must be ready ____ change.
Rigidity in ____ of these aspects is the antithesis to value creation.
4 경쟁적 제안을 통해 평가되는 직원의 가치
As irritating as it is for an individual to go to all the effort to get a competing ____ let me explain why that is such an effective strategy.
Appraising an ____ value in the workforce is a very difficult proposition.
There isn’t an exact amount that is universally fair to pay any given job title. ____ are too many variables.
Therefore, companies do their best to determine competitive ____ through salary surveys or other data, but it’s more of an art than a science.
The best way to appraise worth is similar to how you ____ a house.
One of ____ best indicators of home value is to see what other houses have sold for.
When you have other competitive offers or bids on a home, it sets its ____ in the market.
The more unlike other homes, the ____ difficult it is to appraise.
The same ____ true for employees.
The best ____ to establish value is to see competitive offers.
5 혼합 연령으로 구성된 야외 학습
Schools tend to structure outdoor learning, indeed just about all learning, around an age-based framework (unless of course school numbers encourage mixed-age ____
____ research in Australia has found that mixed-age grouping helps children develop social, cognitive and language skills, with children engaging in ‘more mature and complex play’.
Children ____ naturally mix with children of different age groups at ‘playtime’ outside on the school field or playground.
Perhaps we should reconsider the idea that learning outdoors simply involves taking a class outside, and instead, view it as ____ a school supports the social and cognitive opportunities of mixing classes and age groups to learn in a wide range of environments.
____ Forest School be restricted to your school’s Year One class?
Why not take a mix of classes with some ____ from each year?
Perhaps our outdoor experiences as teachers can be the foundation to challenge many accepted notions of what ____ should look like.
6 컴퓨터 게임이 아동 발달에 주는 이점
Today, children in early childhood education centers have access to computer ____ even though the children are often restricted in their use of such games.
Naturally, it is the oldest children in ____ childhood education centers who tend to play such games the most.
These games are often very simple and may well include ____ aspect of learning.
Children growing up today meet digital technology early, and it becomes a ____ part of their personal promotion.
Often a program is peppered with ____ and music and is a form of entertainment (hence the word edutainment which is sometimes used for this).
Such computer games help to develop fine motor skills (using the finger tips) and require cognitive skills ____ order to find a solution to a challenge or a task in relation to a menu.
Accordingly, this means that the child needs to know or learn the codes in order to be ____ to make the game work by choosing from the menu.
7 한 뉴욕 식당의 기분 좋은 환대와 서비스
A few years ago, I took a group of restaurateurs and hoteliers to visit a number of restaurants in Rochester, ____ York.
At our first stop, a major burger franchise, members of our group were pleasantly surprised to find a vase ____ a bouquet of flowers in the ladies’ washroom and a small plant in the men’s room.
We had 35 people in our group, ____ as we ordered our food the staff remained polite and welcoming, took the food order expediently, and put up the orders promptly, with no mistakes.
All of the group members ____ surprised to see such service and hospitality.
Though we never met him, this restaurant owner expressed hospitality ____ service to us.
No corporate policy required plants and flowers in the washrooms. Instead, the independent ____ personally saw to it that this particular burger restaurant was memorable.
9 최초의 아프리카계 미국인 여성 의사 Rebecca L. Crumpler
____ L. Crumpler was born in 1831 in Delaware and died in 1895 in Fairview, Massachusetts.
She is known as ____ first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
She was ____ by an aunt in Pennsylvania who cared for sick neighbors, and this may have affected her career choice as a physician.
In 1852, she was working as a nurse, but in 1860, she was admitted to the ____ England Female Medical College in Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1864.
Crumpler challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers ____ medicine.
Although little has survived to tell the story of Crumpler’s life, she ____ her place in the historical record with her book of medical advice for women and children.
Crumpler practiced general medicine in Boston for ____ short while before moving to Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil War ended in 1865.
Living in Richmond gave her ____ opportunity to care for freed slaves who would otherwise have had no access to medical care.
12 성적 인센티브와 기억력 간의 관계
It is obvious that any significant achievement occurs ____ where the self attributes intrinsic pleasure to the pursuit of knowledge.
Students may pass ____ but little of the information learned from the reward of grade incentives will be stored in long-term memory.
When the rewards cease, so does the motivation to remember, which is why the vast ____ of information learned is lost within weeks.
In one study on math games children’s performance was compared between a reward program and the follow-up during which no ____ were provided.
The reward program did initially produce more interest and the children played more. However, those who initially had enjoyed the games lost interest during ____ follow-up and played less after the reward program ended.
The researchers determined that it was the reward program that caused ____ children to like the games less.
Related research should cause us to think about what we do to the minds of children in an obsessive grade ____ educational system.