EBS 2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Week2_03강 1~6번 문제들

2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Week2_03강 1~6번 문제들을 Keywords, phrases, clauses, sentences을 찾은 후 글의 내용 파악해서 문제풀이를 하겠습니다.

"When clicked, the image enlarges"

긴 문장은 구와 절 덩어리로 묶고 독해하기 편한 문장으로 보면 독해가 편해진다.

 

< 구: 두 단어 이상 > [ 절: 접주동 ]

구안에 절이 들어갈 수 도 절 안에 구가 들어갈 수도 있다. 덩어리를 잘 묶어 보면 문장이 어렵지 않게 보이기 시작한다.

< 명사구 > [ 명사절 ] < 형용사구 > [ 형용사절 ] < 부사구 > [ 부사절 ]

 

고딕체와 밑줄만 잘 보면 답이 보인다

 

[문제] 1 다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?

The bitter irony of the nature-nurture wars of the twentieth century was that a world where nurture was everything would be horribly more cruel than one [where nature allowed people to escape their disadvantages through their own talents]. How peculiarly nasty to write people off because they were born in a slum, or fostered by indifferent parents. The society depicted in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is usually mistaken these days for one of fatalistic genetic determinism. In fact it is the very opposite, a place where early nurture for the elite produces unfair advantages. Fortunately, we know from the work of the economist Gregory Clark that elites regress inexorably to the mean over time. Despite sending their children to elite pre-schools, the richest of the rich in a city like New York can do little to make up for their children’s genetic mediocrity; and despite getting little opportunity, brilliant kids from the slums can make it big. Nature is ________.

* regress: 회귀하다 ** inexorably: 가차 없이 *** mediocrity: 평범함

① the friend of social mobility                ② the resource for the economy

③ the cradle of all true knowledge        ④ the mother of strong cooperation

⑤ the product of a struggle for existence

 

Tip for finding answers: 밑줄과 고딕체를 보면서 본성과 양육의 내용으로 본성은 자신의 재능을 통해 단점을 벗어나게 한다는 글 내용 파악하면 답이 보인다.

 

[문제] 2 다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?

The expanding nature of digital technology meant [new forms were constantly surfacing and rapidly diversifying.] As Dieter Daniels wrote regarding the growing complexity of current digital media, it is “impossible to take in the whole picture.” No technology has ever unfolded its potential as swiftly as computers. In contrast to traditional tools, which retained their form and function for hundreds of years, the computer has changed dramatically in a short space of time. There was, as pioneering artist Mark Wilson suggests, a “bewildering variety of computational techniques” available to the artist. Throughout the history of computer art, it seems that artists have often struggled with the morphology and tempo of digitalization. For the theorist and artist, it was difficult to follow the rapidly evolving nature of the technology and the sudden succession and redundancy of forms. Equally, the historian was faced with the difficulty of mapping these rapidly transforming and ever-expanding digital forms. This is perhaps [why art historians have traditionally preferred subjects that ________].

* bewildering: 당혹하게 하는 ** morphology: 형태(론) *** redundancy: (불필요한) 중복, 과잉

① were perceived as integrated          ② evolved at a manageable pace

③ had higher occupational returns     ④ allowed them to follow academic trends

⑤ embraced the rapid evolution of technology

 

Tip for finding answers: 밑줄과 고딕체를 보면서 디지털 기술이 새로운 형식이 나타나고 빠르게 다양해지는 반면 예술 사학자들이 전통적으로 선호하는 것이 무엇인지를 알아보는 문제로 파악하면 답이 보인다.

 

[문제] 3 다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?

One might say that a language predisposes us to think certain things, but perhaps its main effect is in causing us <not to think certain things>. It is well established that we fail to notice much of what goes on around us. Research on human decision making shows that while we routinely disregard a portion of available information, this in fact makes good sense. Part of the logic of decision making is to ________. It is the same from small things, like choosing which brand of cereal to buy, to big things like finding a life partner. Once you have locked on to a decision-making problem, your next step is to find ways to narrow the search for an appropriate solution and lock off, or stop the search, by making the decision that yields the best balance: desired benefit for lowest cost. And you should make the decision quickly in order to get on with making the next incoming decision.

* predispose: (생각이나 행동에 영향을 주어) ~하게 만들다 ** lock on to: ~에 시선을 고정하다

① minimize the costs involved

② define the nature of its situation

③ identify the problem to be solved

④ distinguish good reasoning from bad

⑤ avoid mindlessly following the group

 

Tip for finding answers: 밑줄과 고딕체를 보면서 언어 특정한 것을 생각하지 않게 하는 것이 주된 효과 의사결정 이용가능한 정보의 일부를 무시하는 것을 토대로 의사결정 논리의 일부는 필요한 것을 취하고 필요 없는 것은 무시하는 즉 최대의 이익을 내는 것이라는 의미를 찾으면 답이 보인다.

 

[문제] 4 다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?

Few accounts of early human evolution depict males being fathers or sons, and yet every single one of our male ancestors was both of those things. That’s not to say that early human fathers put as much effort into hands-on child care as early human mothers did. But once the size of our ancestors’ brains began to expand, it’s likely that adult males began to live with mothers and children, and groups worked together to collect and prepare food. It seems to us [that mothers would have needed help from adult males <to get enough food for themselves and their larger-brained children>]. Chimp mothers are stretched to capacity finding enough food to keep their larger-brained babies alive. We reckon that australopithecine mothers could have managed if they had worked together and got help from their older children. But it’s hard to see how mothers could find enough food to supply the calories needed to support the growth of even larger-brained youngsters while at the same time supporting their own larger brain. Males were ________.

* reckon: 생각하다, 추정하다 ** australopithecine: 오스트랄로피테쿠스 속(屬)의

① the primary cause of aggressive interactions

② the major food consumers in primate social life

③ the ones that established the rules for their group

④ the only possible source of the extra nourishment

⑤ the driving force behind the evolution of inequality

 

Tip for finding answers: 밑줄과 고딕체를 보면서 남성은 아버지이자 아들이다. 여성은 자신을 유지하면서 동시에 아이의 성장을 유지하는데 필요한 열량을 공급하기 어렵다는 것을 통해 남성의 역할을 생각해 보면 답이 보인다.

 

[문제] 5 다음 빈칸에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?

Health researchers are increasingly examining <how people move around the world and interact>. They do this through surveys, mobile phone data and satellite imagery. Soon it will be possible to link this data with other information — from genome sequences to environmental analysis — to study infections across a range of scales. Rather than focus only on the biological features of a disease, or its impact on a particular population, we will be able to simultaneously analyse the infection, its evolution and its environment, as well as the behaviour of its human patients. This will allow health agencies to design disease control strategies specifically for different populations and areas, and it will be particularly important in situations where a person’s history of infection can influence their future risk of disease. Dengue fever is a good example: if you’ve previously been exposed to one strain of dengue, it can make your second infection more severe. That’s why a 2016 study coordinated by the World Health Organization recommended [that dengue vaccination campaigns should ________.

* dengue fever: 뎅기열(모기를 통해 감염되는 열대 감염병) ** strain: (동식물·질병 등의) 종류

① emphasise its beneficial effects on general well-being

② account for the history of infection within a population

③ be under the overall supervision of doctors and other staff

④ include some of the history of infection prevention development

⑤ prioritise vaccination for individuals with a family history of dengue

 

Tip for finding answers: 밑줄과 고딕체를 보면서 사람은 함께 상호작용하며 산다라는 의미를 찾으면 답이 보인다.

 

[문제] 6 밑줄 친 Clockwork switches over to complexity가 다음 글에서 의미하는 바로 가장 적절한 것은? 

It was an amazing feat to get to the moon, stay there for a few hours, and return to Earth. The spacecraft for the eight-day journey was equipped with enough food, oxygen, and other necessities for the astronauts to survive. It’s quite another undertaking for a colony of people to live indefinitely in space by growing crops and recycling water and wastes. One person consumes roughly three times his or her body weight in food, four times that weight in oxygen, and eight times that weight in water, and generates 130 pounds of feces and 880 pounds of carbon dioxide in a single year. Clearly, the prospect of carrying enough food to eat, water to drink, and air to breathe for a colony of people is out of the realm of possibility, not to mention the difficulty of carrying away the waste. Even a single glass of water would require massive amounts of energy to lift into space. A colony <living indefinitely in space or on another planet> would need to grow its own food and cycle its water and wastes. Clockwork switches over to complexity.           * feat: 위업, 업적 ** feces: 배설물

① The race to explore space is getting much more intense.

② It will be difficult to transport resources to another planet.

③ Procedures related to spaceflight are becoming more complex.

④ Sustaining life on Earth now is more complicated than in the past.

⑤ Living in space for long periods of time becomes a very complex problem.

 

Tip for finding answers: 밑줄과 고딕체를 보면서 우주에 머무르는 시간이 길어지면서 해야할 일들이 많아지게 되고 있다라는 의미를 찾으면 답이 보인다.