2027 수능특강 영어 11강 변형문제

We are exceptionally smart, and this helps us adapt to ____ wide range of environments.

But we are not ____ smart enough as individuals to solve the adaptive problems that confronted modern humans as they spread across the globe.

The package of tools, foraging techniques, ecological knowledge, and social arrangements used by any group ____ foragers is far too complex for any individual to create.

We are able to learn all the things we need to know in each of the many different environments in which we ____ only because we acquire information from others.

We are much better at learning ____ others than other species are, and we are motivated to learn from others even when we do not understand why our models are doing what they are doing.

This psychology allows human populations to accumulate pools ____ adaptive information that greatly exceed the inventive capacities of individuals.

Here’s an application of metaphors to research papers: Below-grade-level readers in my urban ____ school have a great deal of difficulty doing research.

Their ____ when assigned to do "a report" is to come to the media center and copy verbatim everything in the encyclopedia article or whatever source they have located, be it Internet, print, or whatever.

To ____ to get the students to understand why it isn’t necessary to copy everything in the articles, I use a comparison to a supermarket.

I ask them if ____ in the supermarket is useful, and we discuss this, with the usual conclusion being that it is, but we don’t buy everything all the time.

Then I ask ____ why they don’t buy everything each time they go and how they determine what to buy when they go with their parents.

____ usually mentions that they have a list.

____ that point on, I lead a discussion about how whatever their teachers have asked for is their "shopping list" for their research, and they should just read for that information and write it down in note format.

It sometimes helps them to understand ____ copying everything is a wasteful endeavor.

Reformist approaches assume that markets could operate in more equitable and ____ reasonable ways, and that a market is the most efficient option available.

Yet the ____ of market efficiencies generally rotates on purely monetary calculations, effectively reasoning in a hall of mirrors and marginalising real social and environmental values.

Familiar examples are conventional food retailers, such as supermarkets, which purchase fruit ____ vegetables as cheaply as possible.

Inexpensive produce might be grown using soil- and water-damaging fertilisers, by poorly paid illegal migrant workers, and transported long distances using ____ cheap labour and environmentally damaging practices.

However, organic farmers can only follow ecologically sound practices and make sure they pay their workers fair wages if the food costs ____ meaning supply for an elite demand.

By ____ very nature, one never manages to escape the conundrums that production for trade entails.

Real social ____ environmental values involved in caring for people and Earth highlight the inequities and damage of market-oriented activities.

There is ____ scientific basis for the term "race".

Most humans are genetically ____ similar and there is so little variation amongst us that it is not possible to draw neat boundaries around people and label them as a distinct racial group.

Race is an example of social construction, where social processes create something that essentially does not ____ but takes on real force in people’s lives.

Sociologists prefer to call these processes ____

Historical evidence ____ race has always been an issue is hard to find.

For example, in ancient Rome there were various leading figures, such as Emperor Septimius Severus (ruled C.E. ____ who were black.

Little is said of their skin colour in accounts written at the time, because the ancient Romans did not think it ____ any difference.

They thought more in terms of judging people as being civilized or ____ barbarian.

Many factors contribute to Americans’ growing waistlines, but one observation ____ particular cannot be overlooked: The incidence of obesity has increased in parallel with increasing portion sizes.

Consider this: Adults today consume an average ____ 300 more calories per day than they did in the year 1985.

Is this just a coincidence, or do larger portion sizes have something ____ do with it?

In almost every eating situation, we are now confronted by huge portions, which are perceived ____ "normal" or "a great value."

Americans have created the perception that large portion sizes are appropriate, creating an environment of ____ distortion.

We find portion distortions in restaurants, where the jumbo-sized portions are consistently 250 percent ____ than the regular portions.

We even find portion ____ in our homes, where the sizes of our bowls and glasses have steadily increased and where the surface area of the average dinner plate has increased 36 percent since 1960.

Research shows that people unintentionally consume more calories when ____ larger portions.

Consuming larger portion sizes can contribute to positive energy balance, which, ____ time, leads to weight gain and ultimately can result in obesity.