2027 수능특강 영어 Test 2 문장별 빈칸

I am writing with regard to my ____ furniture order.

Last Saturday, I visited your Springfield ____ and purchased an oak desk along with two three-drawer filing cabinets for my study.

However, when I returned home this evening, I found that my order had been delivered in my absence, and the cabinets were not what I ____.

Instead of the ____ style, I received the four-drawer version.

Unfortunately, due to limited space, I am unable to accommodate the taller cabinets, which ____ them unsuitable for my needs.

I kindly request that you arrange for the ____ cabinets to be picked up and replaced with the correct three-drawer models as soon as possible.

Please contact me at your earliest convenience to ____ the exchange.

I would appreciate your prompt attention to this matter, as I need the right cabinets to properly organize my ____.

Light streamed ____ Emily's eyes as she stirred awake, stretching with a contented sigh.

Hugging her pillow, she smiled ― her cousin's house was just as cozy as hers, and everything felt ____ familiar.

The usual morning sounds of Rosewood filled the air: the ____ barking and the garbage truck passing by with a low, steady sound.

Memories of last night's party with her cousins danced through her mind, ____ a soft smile to her face.

Then, a strange scent hung in the air ― something earthy and sharp, like hay mixed with something ____.

Emily frowned and sensed that ____ was not right.

As she turned her head, her breath ____.

Aunt Helene stood in the ____.

____ blinked, unsure if she was still dreaming.

____ Helene was supposed to be traveling.

She couldn't understand why Aunt ____ was here.

"You're up," Helene ____. "Come downstairs."

____ was so shaken that she couldn't say anything.

Emily's ____ was moving down the stairs, but her mind was still trying to catch up with what just happened.

Society makes a pedagogical mistake when it emphasizes obtaining the so-called "right answer" rather than asking the "____" question, or at least, a good question.

The ____ "good student" is viewed as the one who rapidly provides the right answers to questions teachers ask.

On this view, the expert in a given field unfortunately becomes an extension of the so-called "expert student" ― the one who knows and can quickly spit ____ a lot of information.

As John Dewey believed, how one thinks about issues often is more important and consequential in life than ____ what one thinks.

Schools should teach students how to ask important questions (questions that are worth answering and that are interesting) and reduce their emphasis on ____ learning of facts.

And they need to reorient their emphases in diverse domains, ____ just in the arts.

Contemporary creativity research embraces a wide variety of distinct domains, from science to engineering to business to architectural design to the arts to athletics, all of ____ are ready for creative investigation.

The combination of geometrical regularity and keen observation of nature is characteristic of all ____ art.

We ____ study it best in the reliefs and paintings that adorned the walls of the tombs.

The word 'adorned', it is true, may hardly fit an art which was meant to be seen by no one but the ____ man's soul.

In fact, these ____ were not intended to be enjoyed.

They were meant to 'keep ____'.

Once, in a dark distant past, it had been the custom when a powerful man died to let his servants and slaves accompany him into the grave so that he ____ arrive in the beyond with a suitable suite.

They were ____.

Later, these horrors were considered either too cruel or too costly, and art came to the ____.

____ of real servants, the great ones of this earth were given images as substitutes.

The pictures and models found in Egyptian tombs were connected with the idea of ____ the souls with helpmates in the other world.

When thinking of fashion as clothing and accessories, it is hard not to ____ it as an item, an object we purchase and use, and an object that, inevitably, is made of something ― for one cannot think of fashion items without thinking of their materiality.

Nevertheless, such materiality is ____ if not as a performance.

Fashion is fabric, sartorial design, and the set of inventions and innovations that ____ its history ― none of these are static.

The study of fabrics and ____ designs runs parallel to and complements the very study of our cultures and traditions.

It is a matter, somewhat poetically, of dressing history, of ____ it colors and design.

The fabrics in which fashion items are made populate our cultural heritage: they remind us of traditions and ____.

They are even at times signs of economic change ― nylon after the Second ____ War, sustainable fabrics nowadays.

In ____ ways, the study of the material counterpart of fashion becomes a study of collective identity, of global trends, of the growth and evolution of societies ― from the past to the present to the future.

Gen Z became the first generation in history to go through puberty with a portal in their pockets that called them away from the people nearby and into an alternative universe that was exciting, addictive, ____, and unsuitable for children and adolescents.

____ socially in that universe required them to devote a large part of their consciousness ― perpetually ― to managing what became their online brand.

This was now necessary to gain acceptance from ____, which is the oxygen of adolescence, and to avoid online shaming, which is the nightmare of adolescence.

Gen Z teens got sucked ____ spending many hours of each day scrolling through the shiny happy posts of friends, acquaintances, and distant influencers.

They watched increasing ____ of user-generated videos and streamed entertainment, offered to them by autoplay and algorithms that were designed to keep them online as long as possible.

They spent far less time playing with, talking to, touching, or even making eye contact with their friends and ____, thereby reducing their participation in embodied social behaviors that are essential for successful human development.

The philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon couched the efforts of his peers to understand the world, whether it is the workings of an organ or movements of the heavens, in ____ of the spiders and the ants, where the former use reason and the latter rely on experiment.

Importantly, Bacon realised that a blend of both skills ― as performed by the bees ― was necessary for what today we call science: like these ____ little insects, worker scientists harvest data from experiments so that their minds can transform them into fruitful information.

In his evocative writing, one can see an outline of how science still works: reason guides experiment, which paves the way for new reasoning and ____ new experiments.

With his metaphor of the bee, Bacon had rejected the approaches of the ant, which depended on radical empiricism (data without ____), and of the spider, which relied on rationalism (reason without data), in his quest for knowledge.

____ Wiggins, also known as 'Blind Tom,' was a remarkable pianist and composer born in 1849 in Georgia, USA.

____ blind and enslaved, he displayed extraordinary musical talent from an early age.

Wiggins could reproduce complex melodies after hearing them only ____, earning recognition as a prodigy.

He was also known for his ability to mimic sounds from nature and the environment, such as birdsong and trains, incorporating ____ into his performances.

Despite his disability and the harsh conditions of slavery, he was taken on tour by his enslaver, and his ____ astonished audiences across the United States and Europe.

Wiggins composed over 100 ____, blending classical, folk, and popular influences.

His most famous work, 'The Battle of Manassas,' vividly depicts the ____ of the Civil War.

After emancipation, he continued to perform, but exploitation by his handlers ____.

____ this, Wiggins became one of the most celebrated musicians of the 19th century.

He passed away in ____, leaving behind a legacy of human potential in the face of adversity.

A variety of linguistic ____ convey the ideas centrally linked with the concept of true self.

People are said to have integrity when their actions appear to express what they truly feel and value, and this quality of integrity, cross-culturally, seems to engender ____ and respect.

The etymology of the term integrity derives from the Latin "integer," meaning that integrity expresses wholeness and ____.

Nor are ____ expressions limited to Western cultures.

Japanese language, for example, contains the word ____, which is sometimes translated as "true self" and conveys a deeper self that must be discovered which facilitates one's health and connections with others.

Similarly, Takeo Doi pointed out the awareness among Japanese of potential discrepancies between ____ sensibilities and outward presentation, as illustrated by the existence of complementary terms such as tatemae/honne.

Kim-Chong Chong similarly highlights ____ conceptions within Confucian philosophy.

Clearly, concern with authenticity or the true ____ of others is present in varied cultural contexts.

In many ways, the Internet has accelerated people's notion that the ____ is relative.

As Anna Kata argues, the Internet has facilitated a postmodern paradigm of ____ in which expert consensus is delegitimized and personal values and experiences are treated the same as scientific evidence.

Within this new paradigm, Kata notes, everyone is considered an expert and truth is "flattened," as ____ perspective and view of the facts is represented as legitimate, with evidence from legitimate experts considered one of multiple opinions.

The changing nature of what is considered true is problematic in terms of misperceptions, as people are increasingly exposed to online discussions and ____ about what is true.

If extremely inaccurate evidence, personal experiences, or the words of charlatans are ____ and considered alongside evidence from scientific consensus without consideration of validity based on evidence, it becomes more difficult for people to determine which information is legitimate and true.

Furthermore, online postmodern discourses often ____ the standards of evidence to suit participants' arguments, making it more likely that people will become confused about the facts and ultimately misinformed.

Researchers need to be ____ that subjects' behavior may change simply because they are getting special attention, as one classic experiment revealed.

In the late 1930s, the Western Electric Company hired researchers to investigate worker productivity in its Hawthorne factory ____ Chicago.

One experiment tested the hypothesis that increasing the available lighting ____ raise worker output.

First, ____ measured worker productivity or output (the dependent variable).

Then they increased the lighting (the independent variable) and ____ output a second time.

Productivity had gone up, a result that supported the ____.

But when the research team later turned the lighting back ____, productivity increased again.

____ was going on?

In time, the researchers realized that the ____ were working harder (even if they could not see as well) simply because people were focusing on them and measuring their output.

From this research, social scientists coined the term Hawthorne effect to refer to a change in a subject's ____ caused simply by the awareness of being studied.

____ the content of radio, television, or the internet might be a football game or a political debate, the message ― in McLuhan's terms ― of each of these media is not that.

The message is instead equal to the social changes that a ____ generates.

McLuhan wrote that 'the "message" of ____ medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs'.

He also argued that the content of a medium is always another medium: the content of television ____ be the medium of a theatrical play, the medium of football, and so on.

He wanted to make the point that by just studying the ____, we risk becoming entangled in this spiral of media within media within media.

It was therefore better, he thought, to instead focus on understanding media in terms of the ____ in which they transform the social.

Language is a cultural resource ____ for people to use.

We do things with ____, as the philosopher J. L. Austin reminded us decades ago.

Even when we speak or write to ourselves, our very choices of words, as well as our underlying intentions and desires, are influenced by the ____ contexts in which we have seen, heard, or experienced those words, intentions, and desires before.

Linguistic anthropologists, therefore, maintain that the essence of language cannot be understood without reference to the particular social contexts in which it is ____.

But those contexts do not stand apart from linguistic practices or ____ "contain" them, as a soup bowl would contain soup.

Rather, social contexts and ____ practices mutually constitute each other.

For this reason, language should be studied, Alessandro Duranti writes, "not only as a mode of thinking but, above all, as a cultural practice, that is, as a form of action that both presupposes and at the same time brings about ways of ____ in the world."

For evolution to work, ____ needs to be ― as the term suggests ― selective.

This means that selection needs to be based on an ____ life form's properties and not on a whole population of life forms.

It is not enough that a ____ improves the ability for a life form to survive.

It needs to improve the life form's likelihood of ____ relative to other life forms.

For example, if a life form has a mutation that produces chemicals that speed up the process of procreation but distributes these chemicals among all other life forms, every life form nearby profits, no matter whether they had the beneficial mutation or ____.

This is similar to the ____ in an economy.

Money, status, or reputation is given preferably to those people and companies that have methods ____ adapted to the environment (the market).

A well-run restaurant with better service will attract more customers than a poorly run ____.

If, at the end of the day, the better restaurant had to share its earnings with all other ____, it might have a harder time "evolving" and expanding its business.

Fashion retailers are becoming ____ innovative in addressing the increasing returns issue, including the implementation of reverse logistics strategies, by which returns are channelled through the most cost-effective route.

One example of this is the ____ of dedicated in-store areas, supported by advanced AI technology, for both online and offline returns and the collection of online orders.

An advantage of this is that online customers, going into a store to process a free return, ____ be tempted to make additional purchases while there.

Improved technology is also being used to allow online customers to virtually try on products to check ____ and suitability prior to purchase.

Omni-channel initiatives, such as these, should improve both ____ profit margins and customer satisfaction, reducing the financial risk posed by the increasing rate of returns.

How ____ is used is unique to the resource.

Oil is completely consumed when it is used, especially if it is burned to ____ energy.

This ____ means that the amount of oil consumed by one user is not available for someone else.

In contrast, much water use is sequential, and it is not often fully consumed by the ____ user.

For ____, the water contained in a river may be extracted by many users as it flows from the upper watershed to its eventual end in a floodplain or ocean.

Water may be withdrawn from the river by upstream users, through pumping, diversion and other methods of extraction, but there can also be a lot of return flow of water back to the river during upstream ____.

This return flow to the river is then available for other ____ further downstream.

In fact, some uses of water, such as hydroelectric power generation, transportation and recreation, do not require any withdrawals of ____ water.

____ for these purposes is neither withdrawn from the source nor consumed.

In some cases, objects are members of the same category not because they are highly similar in ____ but because they serve similar functions.

For example, planes, trains, and automobiles do not look very similar to ____ other, but they are all means of transportation.

In still other cases, exemplars ____ associated because they have some connection to each other based on some higher meaning.

Attending church, donating money to a faith-based ____, and bowing one's head before meals are very different specific behavioral acts, and it is not immediately apparent that they serve the same function.

All of them, ____, are excellent exemplars that reflect the individual's religiosity.

The concept of religiosity provides a meaning structure that ties these behaviors together in a single category simply because they are different manifestations of the same underlying ____.

Thus, categories ____ to have some explanatory function.

A category is more than a set of elements that are grouped based ____ on perceived similarities and differences; a category is also a theory that gives some account for why these elements, but not other elements, are included in the category.

This explanation provides the "____" that holds the category together.

The wealth-health question illustrates the most irresistible thinking error made by both amateur and professional social psychologists: When ____ factors such as wealth and health go together, it is tempting to conclude that one causes the other.

Wealth, we might presume, somehow protects a person from health ____.

But maybe it's the other way around: Perhaps healthy people are more likely to succeed economically, or people who live longer ____ more time to accumulate wealth.

A third variable might also cause ____ health and wealth ― for example, perhaps those of a certain race or religion are both healthier and more likely to become wealthy.

In other words, correlations indicate a ____, but that relationship is not necessarily one of cause and effect.

Correlational research allows us to roughly predict one variable from another, but it ____ tell us whether one variable (such as wealth) causes another (such as health).

When two variables (let's call them X and Y) are correlated with each other, there are three possibilities: X causes Y, Y causes X, or a third variable (Z) causes ____.

Literacy has become an increasingly ____ issue in the twenty-first century because of the development of technology.

With the popularity of social media and mobile applications, written and spoken communication genres often merge and become ____.

As suggested by Caroline Tagg, text and ____ merge in modern communication.

With the immediacy of communication enabled by ____, the distinction between formal, pre-planned written communication and the more casual, immediate spoken communication is eroded, whether in social or workplace contexts.

The difference in language style between the two modes of communication has also become ____ conspicuous.

Text messages on mobile devices and social media are basically a kind of ____ communication.

However, because of the immediacy of the communication, they have assumed characteristics of spoken communication, such as more casual/informal communication style, with less emphasis on planning and less compliance with ____ genre features.

Features of spoken communication can often be found in these written texts which are in fact a type of textual ____ communication.

The context of children's exposure to regional variation of a language may play a role in how it is ____ for social meaning.

Kinzler and DeJesus conducted a study of ____ and six-year-old children in the Northern and Southern U.S., and found that they were not equally able to identify or assign social evaluations to those regional accents.

Children from the North, where the more prestigious dialect is spoken, could reliably identify it and showed social ____ for speakers with a Northern accent.

Children living in the Southern U.S., where a less prestigious regional variety is predominately spoken, were at chance when identifying the varieties, and showed no social ____ for either accent.

The crucial difference is that Southern children typically have exposure to both Northern and Southern accents whereas ____ children would mainly have exposure to the Northern accent.

In this context, hearing ____ regional varieties did not give children an advantage in awareness of regional variation.

Children's exposure to regional accents can influence their ____ of those accents, with Northern U.S. children showing a preference for their more respected dialect, while Southern U.S. children, exposed to both Northern and Southern accents, showed neither awareness of nor preference for dialect variation.

The rootedness of ____, their insistence on staying in place, means that plant morphologies record biographies of encounter.

Humans, fires, ____, weather, soils, plants, and animals can all leave traces in plant morphologies.

Long-lived ____, in particular, can be witnesses to history.

____ their capacity to live for centuries, trees can inspire people into caring for processes that stretch beyond human lifetimes.

Through their affinity for deep soils and moisture, short-lived ____ plants have also persuaded humans to reshape landscapes, from cornfields in Iowa to wheat fields in Tuscany.

The gardens, agricultural fields, and the terracing and drainage systems that surround us are the visible consequences of human love, ____, and exploitation of plants.

Much of the time we fail to notice what a plant-centered world we ____ in.

Learning to notice plant ingenuity requires us to slow ____, to walk, look, and wonder, to realize that what we took for granted is much stranger than we had imagined.

The botanist Francis Hallé points out that one way to slow down and notice the strangeness of plants is through drawings of plant form: "It is as if we were visiting a distant planet and encountered a form of alien life with which we share no language ― a form of life based upon principles not our own. If we wish to understand this creature, it is best ____ to rush."