EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어
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Gateway 영업 비밀법의 필요성
Trade secret law aims to promote innovation, although it accomplishes ____ objective in a very different manner than patent protection.
Notwithstanding the ____ of obtaining a patent, many innovators prefer to protect their innovation through secrecy.
They may believe that the cost and delay of seeking a patent are ____ great or that secrecy better protects their investment and increases their profit.
They might also believe that the invention can best be utilized over a longer ____ of time than a patent would allow.
Without any special legal protection for ____ secrets, however, the secretive inventor risks that an employee or contractor will disclose the proprietary information.
Once the idea is released, it will be “free as the air” under ____ background norms of a free market economy.
Such a predicament would lead any inventor seeking to ____ upon secrecy to spend an inordinate amount of resources building high and impassable fences around their research facilities and greatly limiting the number of people with access to the proprietary information.
1 사회적 비교의 힘
The power of social comparison is an important factor ____ human motivation.
Cultural animals set their ____ by what others in their community want.
If nature had programmed us merely to find food, shelter, and someone with ____ to live, people would have had little urge to find ways to make life better once those basic natural goals were satisfied.
But the cultural animal tunes in to his society, and as society’s standards change from year to year or century to century, each individual learns to want whatever currently signifies ____ good life.
What is a ____ for one generation, such as cable television or a second car, is considered a necessity in the next generation.
The ____ standards of happiness depend on human motivational plasticity, which is rooted in keeping up with one’s neighbors.
The constant factor is that cultural ____ want to keep up with their peers.
2 공포에 대한 단계적 반응
Joseph LeDoux, an ____ neuroscientist, suggests that humans have a nonconscious “danger detector” that sizes up incoming information before it reaches conscious awareness.
If ____ determines that the information is threatening, it triggers a fear response.
Because this nonconscious analysis is very fast, it is fairly crude and ____ sometimes make mistakes.
Thus it is good to have a secondary, detailed processing system ____ can correct these mistakes.
Suppose that ____ are on a hike and suddenly see a long, skinny, brown object in the middle of the path.
Your first thought is “snake!” and you stop quickly with a sharp intake of ____
Upon closer analysis, however, you realize that the object is a branch ____ a small tree, and you go on your way.
According to LeDoux, you performed an initial, crude analysis of the stick nonconsciously, followed by a more ____ conscious analysis.
3 평생 학습을 통한 문제 해결 능력 향상
How do we improve our problem-solving skills? It first starts simply with the ____ desire to learn and to love the process of learning.
Lifelong ____ too, are frequently interdisciplinary thinkers.
They see the value of the complexities and subtleties of various ____ understanding when ideas from one area may provide a solution to a problem in another.
That isn’t to say that lifelong ____ must become specialists in all fields.
On ____ contrary, they are significantly more likely to recognize where their knowledge ends and where it begins.
However, those self-perceived frontiers can also reveal when collaboration is required and when it’s best ____ follow someone else’s lead.
In this approach, lifelong ____ can help us solve problems in both our professional and personal lives.
It encourages us to improve ourselves, teaches us how things function, hints at what’s possible, and, most importantly, allows ____ to tune out and focus on what counts.
4 다양화에 따른 갈등의 확산
____ live in a world that has always been very diverse in terms of adaptations to both our physical and social environments.
These diversities have existed over many years of human evolution with limited ____
Initially, when conflict occurred, it happened mostly in ____ where there was competition for natural resources needed for the survival and functioning of particular societies.
An example of this was the competition among the Plains ____ for territory and for buffalo.
The ____ roamed over the Plains, thus causing conflict between tribes for territory and for the buffalo which was their main food source.
Although these ____ were often severe, they were highly localized.
In today’s world, with mass media, ____ world has become less localized but is still very diverse.
As a result, ____ cultures with diverse values, as with the Plains Indians, have come into contact and have increased the potential for misunderstanding and conflict.
5 학교의 기술 도구 이용에 대한 통제
Digital citizenship, digital leadership, big data, Internet safety, and privacy are high on the list of discussions for media literacy ____
Teachers are concerned by the amount of technology that students are exposed to on a regular basis, and are debating how to handle those technology ____ in the classroom.
School administrators worry constantly ____ how much freedom they should grant teachers when it comes to these platforms, as well as the questions involved in allowing students to use network services for personal or educational use.
Parents worry about how their children might be ____ on the Internet.
Students want to know ____ their favorite tools are constantly being monitored, taken away from them, or limited in schools.
They question why education is not keeping up with their own technology ____ and why teachers and administrators aren’t seeing the possibilities of how they can become leaders with technology.
These concerns lead back to classroom educators, who must be conscious of all ____ issues while at the same time bringing some perspective to these conversations.
6 ‘creativity’라는 단어의 발달사
A great example of why history matters — especially old histories — is ____ by taking a close look at the word “creativity” itself.
The term’s etymological roots take us ____ to the Latin verb creare, which meant bringing something forth — making or producing something.
However, this notion was not applied ____ human creativity for several centuries.
Instead, the idea of “creation” was associated ____ God and the generative powers of nature.
Different terms, ars and artis, more similar to today’s notion of art, were applied to human ____ of making, both technical and artistic.
As such, the earliest, ____ uses of “create” were in the passive past participle (was created).
It is only in the fifteenth century that the present tense (to create) and present participle ____ of the verb began to be used.
Thus, for hundreds of ____ creativity was associated with the divine as opposed to the human.
This conception was first challenged in the Renaissance and replaced more or less entirely ____ the Enlightenment.