EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어 Test 1
1 사내 소문으로 인한 동요 자제 안내
Dear employees, Word ____ 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 unemployed right before Christmas.
Figures range from 10 percent to 35 ____ of all staff, depending on which rumor you hear.
____ these are, indeed, hard times for our industry, management has no plans to cut staff before the end of the year, or even during the first quarter of next year.
Cost-cutting measures to counterbalance our financial downturn are currently underway, and have been for ____ time.
If you are still concerned about the ____ of your job or this organization, please talk to your supervisor.
We value all of you and the work ____ do.
Eliminating your services ____ be our very last resort.
2 사촌의 반응에 실망하는 Gloria
____ her cousin Jess visited, Gloria couldn’t wait to take her to Stylist Visions, a bright boutique filled with clothes and jewelry.
Upon ____ at Stylist Visions, Gloria told Jess that she would love the shop 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 fitting rooms, including clothes Gloria had picked out for ____.
She thought that they would look great on ____.
“Okay!” Gloria said, “Let’s go and ____ them on! You’ll look fantastic in that pink skirt!”
At that moment, however, Jess told her that she wasn’t ____ to try anything on.
“What did you say?” “I’m not going to try anything on,” ____ repeated.
“But ____ go ahead. I’ll wait here.”
Gloria couldn’t believe her ears and her spirits ____.
Gloria ____ Jess didn’t like her taste.
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 ____, and a high degree of failure is expected.
If you study the most innovative companies you can think of, you ____ find that they have had more failures than successes, more misses than hits.
How ____ deal with failure is the main feature of an innovation biome.
No one knows beforehand what will work or be successful, so you ____ to expose yourself and your customers to a breadth of ideas and solutions.
The business model of an ____ is uncertain, and while we might attempt to reduce this uncertainty, innovation needs to run freely and with flexibility.
____ should not assume they know whether an innovation will work, how it 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 ____ be ready for change.
Rigidity in any of ____ 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 offer, let me explain ____ that is such an effective strategy.
Appraising an individual’s value in the ____ is a very difficult proposition.
There isn’t an exact amount that is universally fair to pay any given job ____. There are too many variables.
Therefore, companies do their best to determine competitive pay through salary surveys or other data, but it’s ____ of an art than a science.
The best way to appraise worth is similar to how you ____ a house.
One of the best indicators of home ____ is to see what other houses have sold for.
When you ____ other competitive offers or bids on a home, it sets its value in the market.
The more unlike other homes, the ____ difficult it is to appraise.
The same is ____ for employees.
The best way to establish value is to see competitive ____.
5 혼합 연령으로 구성된 야외 학습
Schools tend to ____ outdoor learning, indeed just about all learning, around an age-based framework (unless of course school numbers encourage mixed-age classes).
Recent research in Australia ____ found that mixed-age grouping helps children develop social, cognitive and language skills, with children engaging in ‘more mature and complex play’.
Children will naturally mix with children of different age groups at ‘playtime’ outside on the school ____ or playground.
Perhaps we should reconsider the idea that learning outdoors simply involves taking a class outside, and instead, view it as how a school supports the social and cognitive opportunities of mixing classes and ____ groups to learn in a wide range of environments.
Should Forest School be restricted to your school’s ____ One class?
Why not take a ____ of classes with some pupils from each year?
Perhaps our outdoor experiences as ____ can be the foundation to challenge many accepted notions of what education should look like.
6 컴퓨터 게임이 아동 발달에 주는 이점
Today, children in early childhood education centers have access to computer games, even though the children are often ____ in their use of such games.
Naturally, it is the oldest children in ____ childhood education centers who tend to play such games the most.
____ games are often very simple and may well include some aspect of learning.
Children growing up today meet digital technology early, and it becomes a natural part of their personal ____.
Often a program is peppered with songs and music and is a form of entertainment (hence the word edutainment ____ is sometimes used for this).
Such computer games help to ____ fine motor skills (using the finger tips) and require cognitive skills in 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 ____ the codes in order to be able to make the game work by choosing from the menu.
7 한 뉴욕 식당의 기분 좋은 환대와 서비스
A few years ____, I took a group of restaurateurs and hoteliers to visit a number of restaurants in Rochester, New York.
At our first stop, a major burger franchise, members of our group were pleasantly surprised to find a vase with a bouquet of flowers in the ____’ washroom and a small plant in the men’s room.
We had 35 people in our group, but as we ordered our food the staff ____ polite and welcoming, took the food order expediently, and put up the orders promptly, with no mistakes.
All of the group ____ were surprised to see such service and hospitality.
Though we ____ met him, this restaurant owner expressed hospitality and service to us.
No corporate ____ required plants and flowers in the washrooms. Instead, the independent franchisee personally saw to it that this particular burger restaurant was memorable.
9 최초의 아프리카계 미국인 여성 의사 Rebecca L. Crumpler
Rebecca L. Crumpler was born in ____ in Delaware and died in 1895 in Fairview, Massachusetts.
She is known as the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the ____ States.
She was raised by an aunt in Pennsylvania who ____ 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 New England ____ Medical College in Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1864.
Crumpler challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers in ____.
____ little has survived to tell the story of Crumpler’s life, she secured her place in the historical record with her book of medical advice for women and children.
Crumpler practiced general medicine in Boston for a short while before moving to Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil ____ ended in 1865.
Living in Richmond gave her the opportunity to care for freed slaves ____ would otherwise have had no access to medical care.
12 성적 인센티브와 기억력 간의 관계
It is ____ that any significant achievement occurs only where the self attributes intrinsic pleasure to the pursuit of knowledge.
Students may pass courses, but little of the information learned from the reward of grade incentives will be stored in long-term ____.
When the rewards cease, so does the motivation to remember, ____ is why the vast amount of information learned is lost within weeks.
In one study on math games ____ performance was compared between a reward program and the follow-up during which no rewards were provided.
The reward program did initially produce more interest and the children played more. However, those who initially had ____ the games lost interest during the follow-up and played less after the reward program ended.
The researchers determined that it was the reward program that caused the children to ____ the games less.
Related research should cause us to think ____ what we do to the minds of children in an obsessive grade competitive educational system.