EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어 Test 1
1 사내 소문으로 인한 동요 자제 안내
Dear employees, Word has reached the fourth floor that some employees fear that because of economic hard times and serices ____ their jobs may be eliminated and they may become unemployed right before Christmas.
Figures range from 10 percent to ____ percent of all staff, depending on which rumor you hear.
While these are, indeed, hard times for our industry, management has no plans to cut staff before the end ____ the year, or even during the first quarter of next year.
Cost-cutting measures to counterbalance our ____ downturn are currently underway, and have been for some time.
If you are still concerned about the security of your job or this organization, please talk to ____ supervisor.
We value all of you and the ____ you do.
Eliminating your services would be ____ very last resort.
2 사촌의 반응에 실망하는 Gloria
When her cousin Jess visited, Gloria couldn’t wait to take ____ to Stylist Visions, a bright boutique filled with clothes and jewelry.
Upon arriving at Stylist Visions, Gloria told Jess that she would love the shop and offered to help her choose ____
Twenty ____ later, they had toured the entire shop, and a pile of clothes was waiting for them in the fitting rooms, including clothes Gloria had picked out for Jess.
____ thought that they would look great on Jess.
“Okay!” Gloria said, “Let’s go and ____ them on! You’ll look fantastic in that pink skirt!”
At that moment, however, Jess ____ her that she wasn’t going to try anything on.
“What did you say?” “I’m not going ____ try anything on,” Jess repeated.
“But you go ahead. ____ wait here.”
Gloria couldn’t believe her ears and her ____ sank.
____ realized Jess didn’t like her taste.
Gloria concluded that ____ had been quiet because she wanted to be polite.
3 혁신의 모든 변수에 대한 유연한 대처
____ creation is a leap of faith, and a high degree of failure is expected.
If you study the most innovative companies you can think of, you will find that they have had more failures than successes, more ____ than hits.
How you deal with failure is the main feature ____ an innovation biome.
No one knows beforehand what will work or be successful, so you need to expose yourself and your customers to ____ breadth of ideas and solutions.
The business model of an innovation is ____ and while we might attempt to reduce this uncertainty, innovation needs to run freely and with flexibility.
Companies should not assume they know whether an innovation will work, how it will be used, who exactly will use it, or how it will ____ monetized.
All of these variables ____ to be fluid, and the organization must be ready for change.
Rigidity in ____ of these aspects is the antithesis to value creation.
4 경쟁적 제안을 통해 평가되는 직원의 가치
As irritating as ____ is for an individual to go to all the effort to get a competing offer, let me explain why that is such an effective strategy.
Appraising an individual’s value in the workforce is ____ very difficult proposition.
____ isn’t an exact amount that is universally fair to pay any given job title. There are too many variables.
Therefore, companies do their best to ____ competitive pay through salary surveys or other data, but it’s more of an art than a science.
____ best way to appraise worth is similar to how you appraise a house.
____ of the best indicators of home value is to see what other houses have sold for.
When you have other competitive offers or bids on a home, ____ sets its value in the market.
The more unlike other ____ the more difficult it is to appraise.
The same is true for ____
The best way to establish value is to see ____ offers.
5 혼합 연령으로 구성된 야외 학습
Schools tend to structure outdoor learning, indeed just about all learning, around an age-based framework (unless of course school numbers encourage ____ classes).
Recent research in Australia has found that ____ grouping helps children develop social, cognitive and language skills, with children engaging in ‘more mature and complex play’.
Children will naturally mix with children of different ____ groups at ‘playtime’ outside on the school field or playground.
Perhaps we should reconsider the idea that ____ outdoors simply involves taking a class outside, and instead, view it as how a school supports the social and cognitive opportunities of mixing classes and age groups to learn in a wide range of environments.
Should Forest School be restricted to your school’s ____ One class?
Why not take a mix of classes with some pupils from each ____
Perhaps our outdoor experiences as teachers can ____ the foundation to challenge many accepted notions of what education should look like.
6 컴퓨터 게임이 아동 발달에 주는 이점
Today, children in early childhood education centers have access to computer games, even though the children are often restricted in ____ use of such games.
Naturally, it is the oldest children in early childhood education centers who tend to play such games ____ most.
These games are often very simple and may well ____ some aspect of learning.
Children growing up today meet digital ____ early, and it becomes a natural part of their personal promotion.
Often a program is ____ with songs and music and is a form of entertainment (hence the word edutainment which is sometimes used for this).
Such computer games help to develop fine motor skills (using the finger tips) and require cognitive skills in ____ to find a solution to a challenge or a task in relation to a menu.
Accordingly, this means that the child needs to ____ or learn the codes in order to be able to make the game work by choosing from the menu.
7 한 뉴욕 식당의 기분 좋은 환대와 서비스
A few years ago, I took a group of restaurateurs and hoteliers to ____ a number of restaurants in Rochester, New York.
At ____ first stop, a major burger franchise, members of our group were pleasantly surprised to find a vase with a bouquet of flowers in the ladies’ washroom and a small plant in the men’s room.
We had 35 people in our group, but as we ____ our food the staff remained polite and welcoming, took the food order expediently, and put up the orders promptly, with no mistakes.
All of the group members were surprised to ____ such service and hospitality.
Though we never met him, this restaurant ____ expressed hospitality and service to us.
No ____ policy required plants and flowers in the washrooms. Instead, the independent franchisee personally saw to it that this particular burger restaurant was memorable.
9 최초의 아프리카계 미국인 여성 의사 Rebecca L. Crumpler
Rebecca L. Crumpler was ____ in 1831 in Delaware and died in 1895 in Fairview, Massachusetts.
She ____ known as the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
She was raised by an aunt in Pennsylvania who cared for ____ neighbors, and this may have affected her career choice as a physician.
In 1852, she was working as a nurse, but in 1860, she was admitted to the New England Female Medical College in Massachusetts, ____ she graduated in 1864.
Crumpler challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans from ____ careers in medicine.
Although ____ has survived to tell the story of Crumpler’s life, she secured her place in the historical record with her book of medical advice for women and children.
Crumpler practiced general medicine in Boston for a short while before moving to Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil War ended ____ 1865.
Living in Richmond gave her the opportunity to care for freed slaves who would otherwise have had no access to medical ____
12 성적 인센티브와 기억력 간의 관계
It is obvious that any significant achievement occurs only where the self attributes intrinsic pleasure to the pursuit ____ knowledge.
Students may pass courses, but little of ____ information learned from the reward of grade incentives will be stored in long-term memory.
When the rewards cease, so does the motivation to remember, which is why the ____ amount of information learned is lost within weeks.
In one study on math games children’s performance was compared between a reward program and the ____ during which no rewards were provided.
The reward program did initially produce more interest and the children played more. However, those who initially had enjoyed the games lost interest during the follow-up and played less after the ____ program ended.
The researchers determined that it was the reward program that caused the children ____ like the games less.
Related research should cause us to ____ about what we do to the minds of children in an obsessive grade competitive educational system.