EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어
5강 함축적 의미 파악
Gateway 로마 제국 시대의 건축과 건축가
The position of the architect rose during the Roman Empire, as architecture symbolically became a particularly ____ political statement.
Cicero classed the ____ with the physician and the teacher and Vitruvius spoke of “so great a profession as this.”
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a practicing ____ during the rule of Augustus Caesar, recognized that architecture requires both practical and theoretical knowledge,
and he listed the disciplines he felt the aspiring architect should master: literature and writing, draftsmanship, mathematics, history, philosophy, ____, medicine, law, and astronomy — a curriculum that still has much to recommend it.
____ of this study was necessary, he argued, because architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their plans,
while those ____ have relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously “hunting the shadow, not the substance.”
1 과학적 진리
There’s a saying that there are no cultural relativists at thirty thousand ____.
The laws of aerodynamics work regardless of ____ or social prejudices, and they are indisputably true.
Yes, you can ____ to what extent they are an approximation, what are their limits of validity, do they take into account such details as quantum entanglement or unified field theory (of course they don’t).
But the most basic scientific concept that is clearly and disturbingly missing from today’s social and political discourse is the concept that some questions ____ correct and clear answers.
Such ____ can be called “scientific” and their answers represent truth.
Scientific questions are not ____ to ask.
Their ____ can be validated by experiment or observation, and they can be used to improve your life, create jobs and technologies, save the planet.
You don’t need pollsters or randomized trials to determine if a ____ works.
You need an understanding of the ____ of aerodynamics and the methodology to do experiments.
2 야생 동물의 가축화와 그 영향
When a community stopped hunting female wild cattle, those herds would, over ____, tolerate the closer presence of humans.
By watching the wild cattle, as our deep ancestors ____ predators and learned about their lives, these more recent ancestors could have begun to understand the life cycle of the wild cattle and made a few risky, but creative, ventures.
They started bringing a few, as youngsters, into the villages, building pens and trying to ____ them alive, and they succeeded.
They’d been watching the cattle across generations — they knew about their life cycles, shared that information with one another, and collaboratively came up with ideas about raising their own ____ — and thus prey domestication was born.
Once cattle, sheep, ____, llamas, and goats were living with humans, it was a simple task to do, like with dogs, a bit of behavioral and morphological shaping via direct manipulation (for wool, milk production, or rapid growth for meat).
The ____ of specific individuals to breed was an initial step toward modern domestic animals. And hamburgers.
3 창의성의 본질
The primary impetus of scientific and technical innovation has been our increased ability to reach out and exchange ideas with others, as ____ as to borrow other people’s ideas, and blend them with our own to create something new.
Combinatorial creativity is the acknowledgment that nothing is genuinely unique, at ____ not in the sense of being constructed entirely from scratch.
That ____ is met with considerable resistance in creative spaces.
To create is to ____ with a blank canvas.
However, ____ data exists to support this ecosystem of influences and inspirations.
Nina Paley, an artist, shot and animated ancient relics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to illustrate her point that all creation is ____.
Every work of art is a derivative work. In animation, Oliver Laric examines the reappropriation of images in his video essay “Versions” by looking at how Disney ____ animation.
____ is the original open-source code.
4 직관의 무의식적 작용
Freud long ____ distinguished between the conscious and the unconscious minds.
But today’s understanding of the unconscious mind is not Freud’s seething unconsciousness, with its repressed ____ and instincts.
It’s a cooler and bigger information processing ____.
Our memory, thinking, language, attitudes, and perceptions all operate on these two tracks — a conscious, deliberate “high road” and an unconscious, automatic “low ____.”
Our high-road ____ is reflective; our low-road mind is intuitive.
Consider driving: Your brain and hands know how to move into the ____ lane.
But if you are like ____ drivers, you can’t consciously explain how you do it.
Most drivers ____ they would turn right, then straighten out.
But that would steer them ____ the road.
Actually, after moving right, you reverse the steering wheel equally to the left of center, and ____ then return to the center position.
But no worries, your low-road-guided ____ know how to do it.