2026 수능특강 영어 Test 2 변형문제 (1-14번)

Dear Hazel, Harold is now home from the hospital and ____ well.

I can tell he’s getting back ____ his normal self because he’s started criticizing my treatment of our beloved pet dog, Max.

When my husband ____ ill and was hospitalized, it was a challenging period for both of us.

Your willingness to ____ to the hospital and spend time with us, offering comforting words as well as delicious meals, made a significant difference.

Your kindness provided a source ____ strength for both my husband and me during those tough days.

Please know that your thoughtfulness will ____ be remembered and cherished.

I’d ____ to invite you to lunch later, once my husband is fully recovered. We’ll have much to talk about.

Once my brother Buddy’s outfit was finished, he modeled ____ proudly for Mom and Dad.

But ____ he saw my distracted expression, his smile faded. “What’s wrong, Ella?” I forced a smile.

“Nothing, sweetie. ____ look awesome!”

Buddy, noticing my trembling hand, took my hand and looked up at ____ with concern in his big eyes.

My heart raced, and I hugged ____ tight, unable to shake the image of the scarecrow I had seen the other night.

But in that moment, an idea came to ____

Maybe going to face the dumb straw ____ myself again was the only way to stop feeling so afraid.

As Buddy and I played, ____ started to form a plan.

After he went to bed, ____ sneak out under cover of darkness and storm.

I’d march right up to that old scarecrow and show it that nothing could stop ____

The thought of finally standing up for myself was strangely ____

I might even work ____ the nerve to knock the stupid thing over.

I tightened ____ fists, ready to confront my fears head-on.

Before classes start, take a good long look at the classroom ____ you have been assigned.

If you had the room last year, pitch out old work from former students and throw out the old so you can bring in ____ new.

Think about real-estate agents who encourage clients to get rid of ____ so that potential buyers can “see” themselves in the house or apartment they are thinking of buying.

It is the same with students. Let them enter the space and see it as a place ____ they can make their mark (literally and figuratively).

Find ways of making the classroom space ____ not overwhelming.

Try to limit your imprint. ____ the space, but restrain yourself from decorating it.

The decoration will happen throughout ____ year as students’ writing, photos, messages, and projects fill up the space.

The classroom then becomes a collaborative space that belongs to the students who ____ it.

The influence of ecology began to be felt during the 1970s when some scholars in North ____ society predicted the upcoming clash between ecology and traditional economic theory.

____ influence and the potential conflict became recognizable and significant during the 1980s.

However, little attention was paid to this threatening development by the general population before the ____

Even today the large majority of people conduct their lives in a manner that clearly indicates ____ still do not appreciate the gravity of the situation.

Maybe people ____ finally come to their senses when they are finally confronted by the purported Cree Indian prophecy:

“When ____ last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you can’t eat money.”

Mark ____ said it even more concisely: “Humans are the only animals that blush, and need to.”

Early medieval universities had no easy way to convey information and ideas ____ their students.

Machines to print words and drawings on paper with ease ____ appear until the middle of the fifteenth century.

So professors simply told their classes what ____ wanted them to remember and understand.

That oral communication had some advantages, ____ a rich vocabulary of gestures, words, and inflections that made the best of lecturers masters at simplifying and clarifying their complex ideas, and for several hundred years, this was the only game in town.

But deep learning requires intellectual struggles in which learners try not just to comprehend and remember but also to apply, analyze, ____ evaluate, and theorize.

With lectures just to say the content of a subject ____ front of students taking up all the class time, little, if any, space remained to help them engage in those higher-order — and more difficult — mental activities.

Cultural influences related to identities and difference can lead to distorted self- perceptions, ____ for people who occupy marginalized or oppressed identities.

While perception research has often been used to support the notion that ____ who are subjected to discrimination, like racial and ethnic minorities, are likely to have low self-esteem because they internalize negative societal views, this is not always the case.

In fact, even some early perception research showed that minorities do not just passively accept the ____ views society places on them.

Instead, they actively ____ to maintain favorable self-perceptions in the face of discriminatory attitudes.

Numerous studies have shown that people in groups that are the targets of discrimination may identify with their in-group more because of this threat, which may actually help ____ maintain psychological well-being.

In short, they reject the negative evaluations of the out-group and find refuge and support in their identification with others who share ____ marginalized status.

When asked how he arrived at his discoveries, Einstein ____ “I ignored an axiom.”

It is not entirely clear to what axiom he referred, because he disregarded many, but most likely he meant the belief that the result of a measurement is independent of ____ relationship between the measurer and the measured.

In the theory of relativity ____ measured mass of a body, like its length, depends on its speed relative to the measurer.

Einstein ____ that to discover something new, the old has to be abandoned.

Sometimes a discovery is ____ a new idea, but the rejection of an old one.

Geniuses like Einstein are capable ____ giving up old conventions without any external stimulus.

Most of us need a ____ that comes from the outside.

Creativity ____ before everything, willingness to abandon habitual thought patterns.

This is why creativity is so close ____ humor. Humor is simply the ability to distance ourselves from things.

Like humor, creativity demands not taking ____ too seriously.

Born into a wealthy British family in 1908, Ian Lancaster Fleming wasn’t always destined for literary ____

He just had some experience in journalism and finance before ____ his calling during World War II.

During the war, ____ served as a commander in the Royal Navy’s intelligence division, where he gained firsthand experience with the world of espionage that would later shape his novels.

____ the war, at the age of 44, Fleming surprised everyone by publishing his first James Bond novel, “Casino Royale.”

The ____ of a secret agent code-named 007 captured the imagination of readers.

Fleming produced eleven more ____ novels and two short story collections, creating a global phenomenon.

Fleming’s legacy goes beyond Bond, though. He also wrote a children’s ____ the whimsical “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and tried his hand at non-fiction writing.

Life is full of fear-provoking ____

Importantly for a discussion ____ personality, some of us are more sensitive than others to these fear-provoking events.

Some would feel quite apprehensive about venturing into ____ forest in the first place.

Few have ____ courage to attempt rock climbing up the steep side of El Capitan at Yosemite.

Indeed, some would intensely dislike walking through a strange part of town, especially ____ night, and especially alone.

On the other hand, others of ____ are not so easily frightened and are much less likely to be inhibited by such challenges.

It is these kinds of emotional differences that give rise to unique personalities by motivating and guiding our diverse action tendencies so consistently ____ day to day.

These individual ____ in the sensitivities of our emotional brain systems lead each of us to experience the world differently and therefore to respond differently, resulting in our recognizable individual personalities.

To varying degrees, depending to a great ____ on our inherited makeup, our emotions move us out of our resting state.

They are ____ prime movers of personality.

During the nineteenth century, ____ people thought that physical difference and language were closely connected.

That is, people were thought to speak ____ because of race.

In the early ____ century, Franz Boas intensely argued that there is no relationship between race, language, and culture, though this often fell on deaf ears.

That children of immigrants learn to speak the language of the new country should be the ____ proof of this statement.

However, even today, this ____ forgotten at times.

For example, ____ Americans are sometimes praised for their excellent English, even though they (and perhaps even their grandparents) were born in the United States and never learned to speak Chinese.

Likewise, language ability is separate ____ religion, occupation, financial status, or other aspects of culture.

Unlike many ____ attributes, language and culture are subject to change from generation to generation.

In one ____ then, one’s language and culture is an individual choice.

Thus, ____ in language can be easily observed among people in the same speech community.

An example of how social influences can affect the brain can be noted from a study conducted by ____ and his colleagues.

In their study they asked participants to put a hand into moderately hot water around a temperature of 47°C and thus they ____ anticipate a mild discomfort.

It was found that the anterior cingulate cortex was active while they had their hand in the ____ presumably because of the discomfort involved.

However, when people were led ____ believe the water would be incredibly hot, the same areas were more active than it was for those that thought the pain would be minimal.

Hence, here we have a clear demonstration that the socially induced ____ altered the magnitude of the brain response even though the water temperature was the same for all participants.

This should be of interest to those working on healthcare-related campaigns as it ____ that the induction of pain-related expectations may be a tool that can be implemented to change consumer behaviors.