2027 수능특강 영어 Test 2 문장별 빈칸

I ____ writing with regard to my recent furniture order.

Last Saturday, I visited your Springfield showroom and purchased an oak desk along with two ____ 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 ____ I ordered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emily frowned ____ sensed that something was not right.

As she turned her head, her ____ caught.

Aunt ____ stood in the doorway.

Emily blinked, unsure if ____ was still dreaming.

Aunt ____ was supposed to be traveling.

She couldn't understand why Aunt ____ was here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And they need ____ reorient their emphases in diverse domains, not just in the arts.

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

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

We can study it best in the reliefs and paintings that adorned the ____ 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 dead man's ____

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

____ were meant to 'keep alive'.

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

They ____ sacrificed.

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

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

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

When thinking of fashion ____ clothing and accessories, it is hard not to see 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 ____ is inconceivable if not as a performance.

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

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

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

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

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

In many ways, the study of the material counterpart of fashion becomes a study of collective identity, ____ 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 ____ with a portal in their pockets that called them away from the people nearby and into an alternative universe that was exciting, addictive, unstable, and unsuitable for children and adolescents.

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

This was now necessary to gain ____ from peers, 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 quantities of user-generated videos and streamed entertainment, offered to them by autoplay and algorithms that ____ 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 families, thereby reducing their participation in embodied social behaviors that are essential for ____ 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 terms of the spiders and the ants, where ____ former use reason and the latter rely on experiment.

Importantly, ____ realised that a blend of both skills ― as performed by the bees ― was necessary for what today we call science: like these busy 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 then ____ experiments.

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

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

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

Wiggins could ____ complex melodies after hearing them only once, 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, ____ them into his performances.

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

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

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

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

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

He ____ away in 1908, leaving behind a legacy of human potential in the face of adversity.

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

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

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

Nor are such expressions ____ to Western cultures.

Japanese language, for example, contains the word jibun, which is sometimes translated ____ "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 inner sensibilities and outward presentation, as ____ by the existence of complementary terms such as tatemae/honne.

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

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

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

____ Anna Kata argues, the Internet has facilitated a postmodern paradigm of truth 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 each perspective and view of the facts is represented as legitimate, with evidence from legitimate experts considered one of multiple ____

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

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

____ online postmodern discourses often shift 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 aware that subjects' behavior may change simply ____ 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 ____ would raise worker output.

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

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

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

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

What was ____ on?

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

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

While the content of radio, television, or the internet might be ____ 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 medium ____

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

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

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

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

Language is a cultural ____ available for people to use.

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

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

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

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

Rather, social contexts and linguistic practices mutually constitute each ____

____ 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 being in the world."

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

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

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

It needs to improve the life form's likelihood of survival ____ 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 ____ life forms, every life form nearby profits, no matter whether they had the beneficial mutation or not.

This ____ similar to the situation 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 ____ restaurant with better service will attract more customers than a poorly run restaurant.

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

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

One example of this is the introduction of dedicated in-store areas, supported by advanced AI technology, for both online and offline returns and the ____ 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 operating profit margins and customer satisfaction, reducing the financial risk posed by the increasing ____ of returns.

How water is used is ____ to the resource.

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

This also means that ____ 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 ____ consumed by the first user.

For example, the water contained in a river may be extracted by many users ____ 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 ____ lot of return flow of water back to the river during upstream use.

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

In fact, some uses of water, such as hydroelectric power generation, transportation and recreation, do not require any withdrawals ____ surface 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 each other, ____ they are all means of transportation.

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

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

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

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

Thus, categories need to have some explanatory ____

A category is more than a set of elements that are grouped based merely ____ 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 "glue" that holds ____ category together.

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

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

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

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

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

Correlational research allows us to roughly predict one variable from another, but it cannot tell us whether one variable (such as wealth) causes another ____ as health).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kinzler and DeJesus conducted a study ____ five- 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 ____ the North, where the more prestigious dialect is spoken, could reliably identify it and showed social preferences 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 Northern children ____ mainly have exposure to the Northern accent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Through their ____ for deep soils and moisture, short-lived domesticated 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 ____ consequences of human love, dependency, and exploitation of plants.

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

Learning to notice plant ingenuity requires us to slow down, to walk, look, and ____ 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 ____ 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 not to rush."