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 ____ to his normal self because he’s started criticizing my treatment of our beloved pet dog, Max.

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

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

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

Please know that your ____ will always be remembered and 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, he modeled it proudly for Mom and ____.

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 I had seen the ____ night.

But in that moment, an idea ____ to me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The classroom then ____ a collaborative 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 ____ conflict became recognizable and significant during the 1980s.

However, ____ attention was paid 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 appreciate the gravity of the ____.

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

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last ____ poisoned, you will realize that you can’t eat money.”

Mark Twain said it ____ more 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.

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

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

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

But deep learning requires intellectual struggles in which learners try not just to ____ and remember but also to apply, analyze, 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 ____ related to identities and difference can lead to distorted self- perceptions, especially for 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 to have low self-esteem because they internalize negative ____ views, this is not always the case.

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

Instead, they ____ 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, ____ may actually help them maintain psychological well-being.

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

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

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 ____ of the relationship between the measurer and the measured.

In the theory of relativity the ____ 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 be ____.

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

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

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

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

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

Like ____, creativity demands not taking conventions too seriously.

Born into a wealthy British family in 1908, Ian Lancaster ____ 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 intelligence division, where he gained firsthand experience with the ____ of espionage that would later shape his novels.

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

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

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

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

____ is full of fear-provoking situations.

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

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

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

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

On the other hand, ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 a great extent on our inherited makeup, our emotions move us out of our resting ____.

They are the prime movers of ____.

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

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

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

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

____, even today, this is forgotten at times.

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

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

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

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

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

An example of how ____ influences can affect the brain can be noted from a study 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 had their ____ 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 ____ be minimal.

Hence, here we have a clear demonstration that the ____ 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 those working on healthcare-related campaigns as it suggests that the induction of pain-related expectations may be a tool that can be ____ to change consumer behaviors.