2026 수능특강 영어 Test 2 변형문제 (1-14번)

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

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

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

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

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

Please ____ that your 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.

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

But when he saw my distracted expression, his smile ____. “What’s wrong, Ella?” I forced a smile.

“Nothing, sweetie. You ____ 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, ____ to shake the image of the scarecrow I had seen the other night.

But in that ____, an idea came to me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think about ____ agents who encourage clients to get rid 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 where they can ____ their mark (literally and figuratively).

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

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

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

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

The influence of ecology began to be felt during the 1970s when some ____ in North American society predicted the upcoming clash between ecology and traditional 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 ____ population before the 1990s.

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

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

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

Mark Twain said it even more concisely: “Humans are the only animals that ____, 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 ____ appear until the middle of the fifteenth century.

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

That oral communication had some advantages, ____ a rich vocabulary of gestures, words, and inflections 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 ____, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and theorize.

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 help them engage in those higher-order — and ____ difficult — mental activities.

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

While perception research has often been used to support the notion that ____ 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 not just passively ____ the negative views society places on them.

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

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

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

It is not entirely clear to what axiom he referred, because he ____ 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 ____ of 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 be ____.

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

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

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

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

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

Like humor, creativity demands not ____ conventions too seriously.

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

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

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

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

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

Fleming produced eleven more Bond novels and two short ____ collections, creating 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 non-fiction ____.

____ is full of fear-provoking situations.

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

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

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

Indeed, some would intensely dislike walking through a strange ____ of town, 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 ____ 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 recognizable ____ personalities.

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

They are the ____ movers of personality.

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

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

In the early twentieth ____, Franz Boas intensely argued that 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 today, this is ____ at times.

For example, ____ Americans are sometimes 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 ____, occupation, financial status, or other aspects of culture.

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

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

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

An example of how social influences can affect the ____ 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 hand in the water, presumably because of the discomfort ____.

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

Hence, here we have a clear demonstration that the socially induced expectation ____ 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 ____ be implemented to change consumer behaviors.