2026 수능특강 영어 Test 2 변형문제 (1-14번)

Dear ____ Harold is now home from the hospital and doing well.

I can tell he’s getting back to his normal ____ because he’s started criticizing my treatment of our beloved pet dog, Max.

When ____ husband fell ill and was hospitalized, it was a challenging period for both of us.

Your willingness to come to ____ hospital and spend time with us, offering comforting words as well as delicious meals, made a significant difference.

Your kindness provided a source of strength for both my husband and me during ____ tough days.

Please know that your thoughtfulness will always be remembered ____ cherished.

I’d like to invite you to ____ later, once my husband is fully recovered. We’ll have much to talk about.

Once my brother Buddy’s outfit was finished, ____ modeled it proudly for Mom and Dad.

But when he saw my distracted expression, his smile faded. ____ wrong, Ella?” I forced a smile.

____ sweetie. You look awesome!”

Buddy, noticing my trembling hand, took my hand and looked up at me with concern in his ____ eyes.

My heart raced, and I hugged him tight, unable to shake the image of the scarecrow ____ had seen the other night.

____ in that moment, an idea came to me.

Maybe going to face the dumb straw figure ____ again was the only way to stop feeling so afraid.

As Buddy and I ____ I started to form a plan.

After he went to bed, I’d sneak out under cover ____ darkness and storm.

I’d march right up to that old scarecrow and show it that nothing ____ stop me.

The ____ of finally standing up for myself was strangely empowering.

I ____ even work up the nerve to knock the stupid thing over.

I tightened my fists, ready ____ confront my fears head-on.

Before classes start, take a good ____ look at the classroom that you have been assigned.

If you had the room last year, pitch out old work from former students and ____ out the old so you can bring in the new.

Think about real-estate agents who encourage clients to get ____ of clutter so that potential buyers can “see” themselves in the house or apartment they are thinking of buying.

It is the same with students. Let them enter the space and see it as a place ____ they can make their mark (literally and figuratively).

Find ways of making the classroom space ____ not overwhelming.

Try to limit your imprint. Organize the space, but restrain ____ from decorating it.

The decoration will happen throughout the year as students’ writing, photos, messages, and projects ____ up the space.

The classroom then becomes a ____ space that belongs to the students who inhabit it.

The influence of ecology began to be felt during the 1970s when some scholars in North American society predicted the upcoming clash between ecology ____ traditional economic theory.

This influence and the potential conflict ____ recognizable and significant during the 1980s.

However, little attention was ____ to this threatening development by the general population before the 1990s.

Even today the large majority of people conduct their lives in a manner that clearly indicates they still do not ____ the gravity of the situation.

____ people will finally come to their senses when they are finally confronted by the purported Cree Indian prophecy:

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you ____ eat money.”

Mark Twain said it even more concisely: “Humans are the only ____ that blush, and need to.”

Early medieval universities ____ no easy way to convey information and ideas to their students.

Machines to print words and drawings on paper with ____ didn’t appear until the middle of the fifteenth century.

So professors simply told their classes what they wanted them ____ remember and understand.

That oral communication had some advantages, incorporating a rich vocabulary of gestures, words, and inflections that made the best of lecturers ____ at simplifying and clarifying their complex ideas, and for several hundred years, this was the only game in town.

But deep learning requires intellectual struggles in which learners try not just to comprehend and remember but also to apply, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and ____

With lectures just to say the content of a subject in front of students taking up all the class time, little, if any, space remained to ____ them engage in those higher-order — and more difficult — mental activities.

Cultural influences related to identities and difference can lead to distorted self- perceptions, especially ____ people who occupy marginalized or oppressed identities.

While perception research has often been used to support the notion that individuals who are subjected to discrimination, like racial and ethnic minorities, are likely ____ have low self-esteem because they internalize negative societal views, this is not always the case.

In fact, ____ some early perception research showed that minorities do not just passively accept the negative views society places on them.

Instead, they actively try to maintain favorable self-perceptions in the face ____ discriminatory attitudes.

Numerous studies have shown that people in groups that are the targets of discrimination may identify with their in-group more because ____ this threat, which may actually help them maintain psychological well-being.

In short, they reject the negative evaluations of the out-group and find refuge and support in their identification with others ____ share their marginalized status.

When asked how he arrived at his discoveries, Einstein replied: “I ignored an ____

It is not entirely clear to what axiom he referred, because he disregarded many, but most likely he meant the belief that the result of a measurement is independent of the relationship between the ____ and the measured.

In the theory ____ relativity the measured mass of a body, like its length, depends on its speed relative to the measurer.

Einstein says that to discover something new, the old has to ____ abandoned.

Sometimes a discovery is not a new idea, but the ____ of an old one.

Geniuses like Einstein are capable of ____ up old conventions without any external stimulus.

Most of us need a shaking that comes ____ the outside.

____ means, before everything, willingness to abandon habitual thought patterns.

This is why ____ is so close to humor. Humor is simply the ability to distance ourselves from things.

____ humor, creativity demands not taking conventions too seriously.

Born into a wealthy British ____ in 1908, Ian Lancaster Fleming wasn’t always destined for literary fame.

He just had some experience in journalism and finance ____ finding his calling during World War II.

During the war, he ____ as a commander in the Royal Navy’s intelligence division, where he gained firsthand experience with the world of espionage that would later shape his novels.

After the war, at the age of 44, Fleming surprised everyone by ____ his first James Bond novel, “Casino Royale.”

The story of a secret agent code-named 007 captured the ____ of readers.

Fleming produced eleven more Bond novels and two short story collections, ____ a global phenomenon.

Fleming’s legacy goes beyond Bond, though. He also wrote a children’s book, the whimsical “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and tried his hand at ____ writing.

Life ____ full of fear-provoking situations.

Importantly for a discussion of personality, some of us are more sensitive than others to ____ fear-provoking events.

Some would feel quite apprehensive about venturing into a ____ in the first place.

Few ____ the courage to attempt rock climbing up the steep side of El Capitan at Yosemite.

Indeed, some would intensely dislike walking through ____ strange part of town, especially at night, and especially alone.

On the other ____ others of us are not so easily frightened and are much less likely to be inhibited by such challenges.

It is these kinds of emotional differences that give rise to unique personalities by motivating and guiding our diverse action ____ so consistently from day to day.

These individual differences in the sensitivities of ____ emotional brain systems lead each of us to experience the world differently and therefore to respond differently, resulting in our recognizable individual personalities.

To varying degrees, depending to ____ great extent on our inherited makeup, our emotions move us out of our resting state.

They ____ the prime movers of personality.

During the nineteenth century, ____ people thought that physical difference and language were closely connected.

That is, people ____ thought to speak differently because of race.

In the early twentieth century, Franz Boas intensely argued that there is no relationship between race, language, and culture, though this often fell on deaf ____

That children of immigrants learn to ____ the language of the new country should be the obvious proof of this statement.

However, even today, this ____ forgotten at times.

For example, Chinese Americans are sometimes praised for their excellent English, even though they (and perhaps even their grandparents) were born in the United States and never ____ to speak Chinese.

Likewise, language ability is separate ____ religion, occupation, financial status, or other aspects of culture.

Unlike many ____ attributes, language and culture are subject to change from generation to generation.

____ one sense, then, one’s language and culture is an individual choice.

Thus, differences in language can be ____ observed among people in the same speech community.

An example of how social influences can affect the brain can be noted from a ____ conducted by Rainville and his colleagues.

In their ____ they asked participants to put a hand into moderately hot water around a temperature of 47°C and thus they would anticipate a mild discomfort.

It was found that the anterior cingulate cortex was active while they ____ their hand in the water, presumably because of the discomfort involved.

However, when people were led to believe the water would be incredibly hot, the same areas were more active than it was for those that thought the pain would be ____

Hence, here we have a clear demonstration that the socially induced expectation altered the magnitude of the brain response even though the water temperature was the same ____ all participants.

This should be of interest to those working on healthcare-related campaigns as it suggests that the induction of pain-related expectations may be a tool that can be implemented to ____ consumer behaviors.