EBS 2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Week4 08강 7~12번 문제들

2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Week4 08강 7~12번 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 절안에 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] 7 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 어법상 틀린 것은?

According to evolutionary biologists, polar bears evolved from an ancestor they shared with brown bears, including grizzlies, ① with which they have been known to crossbreed, producing fertile hybrids known as ‘pizzlies’. The approximate date of divergence between the two species ② is still unclear, although the oldest known fossil of what’s thought to be a polar bear jaw is about 100,000 years old, so they must have evolved prior to that; according to the latest DNA analysis, it was probably within the last 500,000 years or so. More than likely this occurred during a warm interglacial period, when the climate was mild enough for brown bears ③ to move northwards. After the next ice age took a hold, most headed back south, but some, thanks to mutations in their DNA which code for hair colour, ④ becoming adapted to the harsher conditions. Those with the most suitable adaptations, namely a lighter whiter coat for camouflage when hunting seals, were more likely to survive. Those that didn’t, died. It was through this process of natural selection in action ⑤ that the polar bear was born.

* grizzly: 회색곰 ** interglacial period: 간빙기 *** camouflage: 위장

 

Content of the text: The evolution of polar bears

 

Tip for finding answers: After the next ice age took a hold, most headed back south, but some, thanks to mutations in their DNA [which code for hair colour], ④ becoming adapted to the harsher conditions. 접속사로 쓰이고 있는 but 뒷문장은 완전해야 한다. 주어 some의 동사 become이 필요하다.

 

2024년 서울대 진학률이 높은 고등학교 전국 37개 학교

[문제] 8 다음 글에서 전체 흐름과 관계 없는 문장은?

[Though innovation is meant to help improve the flow of work and daily life], technology has also been associated with feelings of anxiety and irritability, headaches, mental fatigue, lost productivity, and poor job performance. ① Tech-related stress has been termed “technostress,” and as the name implies, refers to stress caused by the inability to adapt to or cope with technology in a healthy way. ② The technology itself is not the source of stress, but how people handle and react to it. ③ Distraction and lack of focus due to the never-ending interruption of incoming texts, emails, phone calls, and social notifications has been called the epidemic of our digital age. ④ Technology — such as meditation apps and stress-tracking devices — has also proven itself in helping people reduce anxiety and promote feelings of positivity. ⑤ People often feel stressed because they don’t know how to manage the daily onslaught of resources and information made available on the web, leading to feelings of being overwhelmed with “information overload.”

* fatigue: 피로 ** epidemic: 유행병, 전염병 *** onslaught: 맹습, 맹공격

 

Content of the text: 기술 혁신이 일의 흐름과 일상생활의 향상을 의미할지라도 기술은 또한 여러 스트레스와도 관련이 되어 왔다.

 

Tip for finding answers: ④ Technology — such as meditation apps and stress-tracking devices — has also proven itself in helping people reduce anxiety and promote feelings of positivity. 기술이 스트레스를 줄인다는 내용이다.

 

[문제] 9 주어진 글 다음에 이어질 글의 순서로 가장 적절한 것은?

With the emergence of recording technology, a new form of musical space arose: the recording studio. This allowed artists to make music to be heard at other times and places. These places evolved along with the growing mobility of music itself.

 

(A) In order for only the intended sounds to be recorded, studios were constructed of materials that inhibited sound transfer. Such attempts sometimes led to “dead” acoustic properties, however.

(B) Recording enabled various forms of editing, including splicing (moving sections in time) and overdubbing (placing sections atop one another), as well as a growing range of opportunities for processing and manipulating sound. While recording studios supplied vast opportunities for shaping sonic expressions, they also presented new challenges, some of which were addressed via architectural gestures.

(C) In the 1950s and 1960s, then, studios began to construct “echo chambers” using materials that reflected sound, such as concrete and tiles, in order to simulate the sound of certain places, including, of course, the “live” sound of concert venues. The use of stereo systems also allowed recorded music to be organized as a sonic panorama, thus producing the sense of being in an environment where sounds came from different sources.

* acoustic: 음향의 ** section: 악절(樂節) *** sonic: 소리의

① (A) - (C) - (B)          ② (B) - (A) - (C)

③ (B) - (C) - (A)         ④ (C) - (A) - (B)

⑤ (C) - (B) - (A)

 

Content of the text: the emergence of recording technology (recording studio)을 토대로 녹음 공간의 진화에 관한 글 내용이다.

 

Tip for finding answers: These places -> splicing (moving sections in time) and overdubbing (placing sections atop one another) -> only the intended sounds to be recorded -> dead -> however -> live

 

[문제] 10 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 어법상 틀린 것은?

Risk plays an interesting role in terms of creative practice. Pushing the boundaries or ① breaking rules may entail risks. The results of this may be fruitful and invigorating but they may also be disastrous or wasteful. Flirting with risk means that the outcome is not guaranteed but also ② that aspirations go beyond the known and familiar, beyond the standard. This pushing of boundaries takes place at many different levels from the production of single objects to a broader kind of experimentation with materials themselves, and it may therefore ③ be identified as a mainstay of creativity at the everyday level. This kind of creative risk is illustrated by the comments made by a modern-day potter when confronted with a copy of the Skarpsalling vessel, usually ④ considering the most beautiful and outstanding Neolithic vessel found in Denmark. In describing the vessel’s qualities she said its shape was ‘vibrating’. Asked to specify what she meant, she explained that the Neolithic potter ⑤ had pushed the shape to its upmost, to just before it would collapse.

* flirt with: ~의 위험을 무릅쓰다 ** Neolithic: 신석기 시대의

 

Content of the text: Risk plays an interesting role in terms of creative practice. 위험이 있으므로 창의적인 실천이 생긴다로 이해하면 된다.

 

Tip for finding answers: This kind of creative risk is illustrated by the comments <made by a modern-day potter> <when confronted with a copy of the Skarpsalling vessel, usually ④ <considering the most beautiful and outstanding Neolithic vessel <found in Denmark>>>. Skarpsalling vessel은 덴마크에서 발견된 가장 아름답고 뛰어난 신석기시대의 그릇으로 여겨지는 따라서 능동이 아니라 수동이어야 하므로 considered로 바꿔야 한다.

 

[지문] 11~12 다음 글을 읽고, 물음에 답하시오.

In biology, signals have evolved to help organisms communicate otherwise unobservable characteristics. Take the black and yellow colours of a poison dart frog. This (a) distinctive visual signal, in bold disregard of its camouflage, has been favoured by natural selection because it accurately indicates the frog’s toxicity. (“Go on, eat me if you dare!”)

Similarly, a springbok’s energetic leap, bounding into the air and lifting all four feet simultaneously, is a reliable signal that it’s young and fit, so not worth (b) chasing. Then we have the famed peacock, which illustrates its fitness through its glittering and luxurious tail. This expensive (c) handicap serves no other purpose than to signal that a healthy male has resources to burn, boosting his attractiveness as a mate. Signals like these are favoured by natural selection so long as the costs are offset by the benefits.

Critically, it is the cost or risk associated with this signal that is the most reliable way of confirming its truthfulness. If an old and tired springbok (a low-quality signaller) attempts to fake enthusiastic leaping (a high-quality signal), they will exhaust themselves, becoming (d) vulnerable. As a result, low cost signals that are easy to fake are often unreliable cues of trustworthiness. Consistent with this, the eye-catchingly bright colouration of frogs has been found to correlate almost perfectly with their toxicity. Peacocks also don’t just walk around telling peahens “I’m rich!” Any old bird can do that — they need to (e) conceal it. When it comes to trust, talk is cheap.

* camouflage: 위장 ** springbok: 스프링복(남아프리카산 작은 영양) *** offset: 상쇄하다, 벌충하다

 

[문제] 11 윗글의 제목으로 가장 적절한 것은?

① Honesty: Not a Requirement of Costly Signals in Biology

② Clearly Observable Signals: Costly yet Trustworthy Displays

③ Honest and Dishonest Signaling as a Biological Phenomenon

④ Defensive Displays in Organisms: An Evolutionary Perspective

⑤ Visual Signals of Organisms Require Interpretations by Receivers

 

[문제] 12 밑줄 친 (a)~(e) 중에서 문맥상 낱말의 쓰임이 적절하지 않은 것은?

① (a) ② (b) ③ (c) ④ (d) ⑤ (e)

 

Content of the text: signals have evolved to help organisms communicate. 유기체들이 소통을 하게 하는 신호들 it is the cost or risk associated with this signal that is the most reliable way of confirming its truthfulness. 신호들과 연관된 비용 또는 위험은 진실성을 확인하는 가장 믿을 만한 방법이다.

 

Tip for finding answers: Peacocks also don’t just walk around telling peahens “I’m rich!” Any old bird can do that — they need to (e) conceal it. When it comes to trust, talk is cheap. 신뢰에 관한여 말이 아닌 신호 즉 여기선 행동이 필요하다 따라서 conceal이 아닌 show