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 ____ important political statement.
Cicero classed the architect with the physician and the teacher and Vitruvius spoke of “so great a profession as ____
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a practicing architect during the rule of Augustus Caesar, ____ that architecture requires both practical and theoretical knowledge,
____ he listed the disciplines he felt the aspiring architect should master: literature and writing, draftsmanship, mathematics, history, philosophy, music, medicine, law, and astronomy — a curriculum that still has much to recommend it.
All of this study was necessary, he argued, because architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without ____ have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their plans,
while those who have relied only upon theories and ____ were obviously “hunting the shadow, not the substance.”
1 과학적 진리
There’s a saying that there are no ____ relativists at thirty thousand feet.
The laws of aerodynamics work regardless of political or social prejudices, and they are indisputably ____
Yes, you can discuss to what extent they are an approximation, what are their limits of validity, do they take into account such details as ____ entanglement or unified field theory (of course they don’t).
But ____ most basic scientific concept that is clearly and disturbingly missing from today’s social and political discourse is the concept that some questions have correct and clear answers.
Such questions can be called ____ and their answers represent truth.
Scientific questions are not easy ____ ask.
Their answers can be validated by experiment or observation, and they can be ____ to improve your life, create jobs and technologies, save the planet.
You don’t need pollsters or randomized trials to determine if a parachute ____
You need an ____ of the facts 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 time, tolerate the closer ____ of humans.
By watching the wild ____ as our deep ancestors watched 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 keep them ____ and they succeeded.
They’d been watching the cattle across generations — they knew about their life cycles, shared ____ information with one another, and collaboratively came up with ideas about raising their own cattle — and thus prey domestication was born.
Once cattle, ____ pigs, 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 selection of ____ 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 ____ out and exchange ideas with others, as well as to borrow other people’s ideas, and blend them with our own to create something new.
Combinatorial creativity is the acknowledgment that ____ is genuinely unique, at least not in the sense of being constructed entirely from scratch.
That notion is met with ____ resistance in creative spaces.
To create is to start with a blank ____
However, much data exists to support this ecosystem of ____ and inspirations.
Nina Paley, ____ artist, shot and animated ancient relics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to illustrate her point that all creation is derivative.
Every work of art is a derivative work. In animation, Oliver ____ examines the reappropriation of images in his video essay “Versions” by looking at how Disney recycles animation.
Creativity ____ the original open-source code.
4 직관의 무의식적 작용
Freud long ago distinguished between the conscious and the ____ minds.
But ____ understanding of the unconscious mind is not Freud’s seething unconsciousness, with its repressed impulses 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 road.”
Our high-road mind is reflective; ____ low-road mind is intuitive.
Consider driving: ____ brain and hands know how to move into the right lane.
But ____ you are like most drivers, you can’t consciously explain how you do it.
Most drivers say ____ would turn right, then straighten out.
But that ____ steer them off the road.
Actually, after moving right, you reverse the steering wheel equally to the left of center, and only then return to ____ center position.
____ no worries, your low-road-guided hands know how to do it.