2026 수능특강 영어 Test 2 변형문제 (1-14번)

Dear Hazel, Harold ____ 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 my husband fell ill and was hospitalized, ____ was a challenging period for both of us.

Your willingness to come to the hospital and spend time with us, offering comforting words as well ____ 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 ____ thoughtfulness will always be remembered and cherished.

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

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

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

“Nothing, sweetie. ____ look awesome!”

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

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

But in that moment, an idea came ____ me.

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

____ Buddy and I played, I started to form a plan.

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

I’d march right up to that old scarecrow and show it that ____ could stop me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Find ways ____ making the classroom space welcoming, not overwhelming.

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

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

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 and ____ economic theory.

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

However, little attention was paid to this threatening development by the general population before the ____

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

Maybe ____ 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 ____ you can’t eat money.”

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

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

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

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

That oral communication had some advantages, incorporating a rich vocabulary of gestures, words, and ____ that made the best of lecturers masters 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, ____ synthesize, evaluate, and theorize.

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

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

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

In fact, even some early perception research showed that minorities do ____ just passively accept the negative views society places on them.

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

Numerous studies have shown that people in groups that are the targets of discrimination may identify with their in-group more because of this threat, which may actually ____ 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 who share ____ marginalized status.

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

It is not entirely clear to ____ 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 measurer and the measured.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like humor, creativity demands ____ taking conventions too seriously.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ is full of fear-provoking situations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ are the prime movers of personality.

During the nineteenth century, most people ____ 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 ____ there is no relationship between race, language, and culture, though this often fell on deaf ears.

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

However, even ____ this is forgotten at times.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In their study they asked participants to put a hand ____ 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 ____ they had their hand in the water, presumably because of the discomfort involved.

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

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

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