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 ____ economic hard times and serices cutbacks, their jobs may be eliminated and they may become unemployed right before Christmas.
Figures range from 10 percent to 35 percent of all ____ 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 of the ____ or even during the first quarter of next year.
Cost-cutting ____ to counterbalance our financial downturn are currently underway, and have been for some time.
If ____ are still concerned about the security of your job or this organization, please talk to your supervisor.
We value all of you and the ____ you do.
Eliminating your services would be our very ____ resort.
2 사촌의 반응에 실망하는 Gloria
When her cousin Jess visited, Gloria couldn’t ____ to take her 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 ____ offered to help her choose clothes.
Twenty minutes later, they had toured the ____ shop, and a pile of clothes was waiting for them in the fitting rooms, including clothes Gloria had picked out for Jess.
She thought that they would look great ____ Jess.
“Okay!” Gloria said, “Let’s go and try them on! You’ll look ____ in that pink skirt!”
At that moment, however, Jess ____ her that she wasn’t going to try anything on.
“What did you ____ “I’m not going to try anything on,” Jess repeated.
“But you go ____ I’ll wait here.”
Gloria ____ believe her ears and her spirits sank.
Gloria realized Jess didn’t like her ____
Gloria concluded that Jess had been quiet because ____ wanted to be polite.
3 혁신의 모든 변수에 대한 유연한 대처
New-value creation is a leap of faith, and a high degree of failure ____ expected.
If you study the most innovative companies you can think of, you will find that they have had ____ failures than successes, more misses than hits.
How you deal with failure is the main feature of ____ innovation biome.
No one knows beforehand what will work or be successful, so you need to expose yourself and your customers to a breadth of ideas and ____
The business model of an innovation is uncertain, and while we might attempt to reduce this uncertainty, innovation needs to ____ freely and with flexibility.
Companies should not assume they know whether ____ innovation will work, how it will be used, who exactly will use it, or how it will be monetized.
All of ____ variables need to be fluid, and the organization must be ready for change.
Rigidity in any of these ____ is the antithesis to value creation.
4 경쟁적 제안을 통해 평가되는 직원의 가치
As irritating as it is for an individual to go to all the effort to get ____ competing offer, let me explain why that is such an effective strategy.
Appraising ____ individual’s value in the workforce is a very difficult proposition.
There isn’t an exact ____ that is universally fair to pay any given job title. There are too many variables.
Therefore, companies do their best to determine competitive pay through salary surveys or other data, but it’s more of an art than a ____
The best way to appraise worth is similar to how ____ appraise a house.
One of the best indicators of home value is to see what other houses have sold ____
When you have other competitive offers or bids on ____ home, it sets its value in the market.
The more unlike other ____ the more difficult it is to appraise.
The ____ is true for employees.
The best way to establish value is to see ____ offers.
5 혼합 연령으로 구성된 야외 학습
Schools tend to structure outdoor learning, indeed ____ about all learning, around an age-based framework (unless of course school numbers encourage mixed-age classes).
Recent research in Australia has found that mixed-age grouping helps children develop social, cognitive and language skills, with children engaging in ‘more mature ____ complex play’.
Children will naturally mix ____ children of different age groups at ‘playtime’ outside on the school field or playground.
Perhaps we should reconsider ____ idea that learning 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 ____ your school’s Year One class?
Why not take a mix of classes with ____ pupils from each year?
Perhaps our outdoor experiences as teachers can be the foundation to challenge many accepted notions of what education should ____ like.
6 컴퓨터 게임이 아동 발달에 주는 이점
Today, children in early childhood education centers have access to computer ____ even though the children are often restricted in their use of such games.
Naturally, it is the oldest children in early childhood education centers who ____ to play such games the most.
These ____ are often very simple and may well include some aspect of learning.
Children growing up today meet digital technology early, and ____ becomes a natural part of their personal promotion.
Often a program is peppered with songs and music and is a form of entertainment (hence the word edutainment which is sometimes ____ for this).
Such computer games help to develop fine motor skills (using the finger tips) and require cognitive skills in order to find a solution to ____ challenge or a task in relation to a menu.
Accordingly, this means that the child needs to know or learn the codes in order to be able to make ____ 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 visit a number of ____ in Rochester, New York.
At our first stop, a major burger franchise, members of our group were pleasantly surprised to find a ____ 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, ____ as we ordered 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 ____ were surprised to see such service and hospitality.
Though we ____ met him, this restaurant owner expressed hospitality and service to us.
No corporate policy required plants and flowers in ____ 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 born in 1831 in Delaware and died in 1895 in Fairview, ____
She is known as the first ____ 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 ____ New England Female Medical College in Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1864.
Crumpler challenged ____ prejudice that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers in medicine.
Although little has survived to tell the story of ____ life, she secured her place in the historical record with her book of medical advice for women and children.
____ practiced general medicine in Boston for a short while before moving to Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil War ended in 1865.
____ in Richmond gave her the opportunity to care for freed slaves who would otherwise have had no access to medical care.
12 성적 인센티브와 기억력 간의 관계
It is obvious that ____ significant achievement occurs only where the self attributes intrinsic pleasure to the pursuit of knowledge.
Students ____ pass courses, but little of the 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 ____ vast amount of information learned is lost within weeks.
In one study on math games ____ performance was compared between a reward program and the follow-up during which no rewards were provided.
The reward program did initially produce more interest and the ____ played more. However, those who initially had enjoyed the games lost interest during the follow-up and played less after the reward program ended.
The researchers determined that ____ was the reward program that caused the children to like the games less.
Related research should cause us to think about what we do to the minds of children in ____ obsessive grade competitive educational system.