EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어 Test 1
1 사내 소문으로 인한 동요 자제 안내
Dear employees, Word has ____ 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 ____ 10 percent to 35 percent of all staff, depending on which rumor you hear.
While these are, indeed, hard times for our ____, 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 ____, and have been for some time.
If you are still concerned about the ____ of your job or this organization, please talk to your supervisor.
We value all of ____ and the work you do.
Eliminating your services ____ be our very last resort.
2 사촌의 반응에 실망하는 Gloria
When her cousin Jess visited, Gloria couldn’t wait to take her to Stylist Visions, a bright boutique filled with ____ and jewelry.
Upon arriving at Stylist Visions, Gloria told Jess that she would love the shop and offered to ____ her choose clothes.
Twenty minutes later, they had toured the entire ____, and a pile of clothes was waiting for them in the fitting rooms, including clothes Gloria had picked out for Jess.
She thought that they would look great on ____.
“Okay!” Gloria said, ____ go and try them on! You’ll look fantastic in that pink skirt!”
At that moment, however, ____ told her that she wasn’t going to try anything on.
“What did you say?” “I’m ____ going to try anything on,” Jess repeated.
“But you go ____. I’ll wait here.”
Gloria couldn’t believe her ears and her spirits ____.
Gloria realized Jess ____ like her taste.
Gloria concluded that Jess had been quiet because she ____ to be polite.
3 혁신의 모든 변수에 대한 유연한 대처
New-value creation is a leap of faith, and a high degree of ____ 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 you deal with ____ is the main feature of an innovation biome.
No one knows beforehand ____ will work or be successful, so you need to expose yourself and your customers to a breadth of ideas and solutions.
The business model of an innovation is uncertain, and while we might attempt to reduce this ____, innovation needs to run freely and with flexibility.
Companies should not assume they ____ whether an innovation will work, how it will be used, who exactly will use it, or how it will be monetized.
____ of these variables need to be fluid, and the organization must be ready for change.
Rigidity in any of these ____ 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, ____ 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. There are ____ many variables.
Therefore, companies do their best to determine ____ pay 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 appraise a ____.
One of the best indicators of home value is to see what other houses ____ sold for.
When ____ have other competitive offers or bids on a home, it sets its value in the market.
The more unlike other homes, the more ____ it is to appraise.
The same is ____ for employees.
The best way to establish value is to ____ competitive offers.
5 혼합 연령으로 구성된 야외 학습
Schools tend to structure outdoor learning, indeed just ____ all learning, around an age-based framework (unless of course school numbers encourage mixed-age classes).
Recent research in Australia has found that mixed-age grouping helps children develop social, cognitive and language skills, with children engaging in ‘____ 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 ____ and cognitive opportunities of mixing classes and age groups to learn in a wide range of environments.
Should ____ 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 ____ 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 restricted in their use of such ____.
Naturally, it is the oldest children in early ____ education centers who tend to play such games the most.
These games are often very ____ and may well include some aspect of learning.
Children growing up today meet digital technology early, and it becomes a natural ____ 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 in order to find a ____ 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 able to ____ 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, New ____.
At our first stop, a major burger franchise, members of our group were ____ surprised to find a vase with a bouquet of flowers in the ladies’ 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 remained polite and welcoming, took the ____ order expediently, and put up the orders promptly, with no mistakes.
____ of the group members were surprised to see such service and hospitality.
Though we never ____ him, this restaurant owner expressed hospitality and service to us.
No corporate policy required plants and flowers in the washrooms. Instead, the ____ 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 1831 in Delaware and ____ in 1895 in Fairview, Massachusetts.
She is known as the ____ African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
She was raised by an aunt in Pennsylvania who cared for sick neighbors, and this ____ 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 ____ Americans from pursuing careers in medicine.
Although little has survived to tell the story of Crumpler’s life, she secured her place in the historical record with her ____ of medical advice for women and children.
Crumpler practiced general medicine in Boston for a short while before ____ to Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil War ended in 1865.
Living in Richmond gave her the opportunity to care for freed slaves who would otherwise have had no ____ to medical care.
12 성적 인센티브와 기억력 간의 관계
It is obvious that ____ significant achievement occurs only where the self attributes intrinsic pleasure to the pursuit of knowledge.
Students ____ pass courses, 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 ____ which no rewards were provided.
The reward program did initially produce more interest and the children ____ more. However, those who initially had enjoyed the games lost interest during the follow-up and played less after the reward program ended.
The ____ determined that it was the reward program that caused the 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 ____ competitive educational system.