EBS 2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Week5 09강 1~4번

2025학년도 수능특강 영어독해연습 Week5 09강 1~4번 문제들을 Keywords, phrases, clauses, sentences을 찾은 후 글의 내용 파악해서 문제풀이를 하겠습니다.

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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

 

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[문제] 1 다음 글의 밑줄 친 부분 중, 문맥상 낱말의 쓰임이 적절하지 않은 것은?

Causal relations often come in characteristic groups or clusters. For example, in thinking about two people, I might notice that, in contrast to a pair of billiard balls, they often ① causally act on each other at a distance. A remark to a person several feet away can cause that person to move quickly backward. Cause-and-effect relations for people have ② longer time lags than for balls. You do not move instantaneously after I speak, unlike cases in which one ball launches another. There is a noticeable lag. People move on their own without needing any ③ external force. Simple balls do not spontaneously move. Self-generated motion conveys the strong impression that something inside the mover is causing the movement. People can move in irregular ways, darting this way and that. Balls move in smooth ④ unpredictable paths unless something else intervenes. People interact contingently; balls do not. There is a back-and-forth rhythm to many human social interactions whether they be conversations, silent greetings, or hot pursuit. Taken together, several interacting causal relations ⑤ distinguish the motions of people from those of simple solids.

* lag: (시간적) 격차, 지연 ** contingently: 일정치 않게, 경우에 따라

 

Content of the text: Causal relations, You do not move instantaneously after I speak, unlike cases in which one ball launches another

 

Tip for finding answers: 인과 관계에 관한 글 내용으로 볼이 다른 공의 인과 관게를 일으키는 경우와 달리, 사람은 내가 말한 뒤 바로 반응하지 않는다의 내용을 이해하면 된다.

 

 

[문제] 2 글의 흐름으로 보아, 주어진 문장이 들어가기에 가장 적절한 곳은?

In early democracies, participation was often restricted to a smaller number of individuals, but for those who enjoyed the right, the frequency of participation was much higher.

 

Modern democracy evolved from early democracy, and this process began in England before first reaching a fuller extent — for free white males — in the United States. ( ① ) Modern democracy is a form of rule where political participation is broad but episodic: citizens participate by voting for representatives, but this occurs only at certain intervals, and there are few means of control other than the vote — representatives cannot be bound by mandates or instructions. ( ② ) All of this contrasts with early democracy. ( ③ ) It was also the case that those who chose representatives could bind them with mandates, and individual localities could either reject central decisions or opt out of them. ( ④ ) This created substantial blocking power and therefore a need for consensus. ( ⑤ ) For this reason, there was less of a problem of “tyranny of the majority,” whereas this is an issue with which all modern democracies must grapple.

* mandate: (선거구민의) 요구 ** tyranny: 횡포, 독재 *** grapple: (문제를) 해결하려고 노력하다

 

Content of the text: comparison between modern democracy and early democracy

 

Tip for finding answers: All of this contrasts with early democracy. ( ③ ) It was also the case

 

[문제] 3 다음 글의 내용을 한 문장으로 요약하고자 한다. 빈칸 (A), (B)에 들어갈 말로 가장 적절한 것은?

To an important extent, we need things to work properly — to be predictable and dependable. We would give in to despair if too many failed to do their job. A world where things perform their proper function is a hospitable place. And what makes it hospitable is precisely its reliability and predictability. There is a point, however, beyond which this very flawlessness starts to induce a serious form of alienation. For when things work flawlessly, without friction, less and less is demanded of us. In the long run, this effortlessness is our undoing. It’s not just that we become increasingly unnecessary (which would be bad enough), but that we become more and more like the things themselves. We unconsciously start copying them. Their predictability becomes ours, and so does their fundamental inertness. Near something that never changes its patterns, we too slide into a heavily patterned existence. At the limit, if nothing changes to attract our attention, we become indistinguishable from those things, and lose ourselves in their midst. Hospitability is admirable, but [when a place becomes too hospitable], it turns positively hostile.

* hospitable: (환경이) 살기에 좋은 ** friction: 마찰 *** inertness: 불활성, 활발하지 못함

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[While predictability and dependability of things are (A) to a certain degree], a perfectly patterned world [that doesn’t require our active effort and (B) ] becomes harmful to us.

 

       (A)                              (B)

① amusing       ……     conviction

② displeasing   ……     tolerance

③ desirable      ……     distinctiveness

④ boring           ……    feedback

⑤ recognizable ……     awareness

 

Content of the text: 사물의 에측성과 의존성은 어느 정도 바람직하지만, 우리의 노력이나 독특함을 요구하지 않는 완벽하게 정형화된 세상은 우리에게 해롭다.

 

[문제] 4 (A), (B), (C)의 각 네모 안에서 문맥에 맞는 낱말로 가장 적절한 것은?

One of the biggest challenges in overcoming fear is [that [although the brain learns lessons quickly], it does not unlearn lessons quickly]. Ever traveled by train? On every trip, trains obey the direction of the tracks. If an engineer wanted to take the train in a different direction, but lacked the track, it would not be possible. New tracks would be (A) necessary / unnecessary to divert the train onto a new course. And once a train has a destination on a track, it churns with momentum. The challenge lies in laying the new track. Like most goals in life, it would take patience, effort, and commitment to build that new path. There is a (B) different / similar challenge in facing anxiety and changing your brain’s chemistry. In other words, <creating a new neural pathway [that is unafraid of [what you currently fear]]> is going to take some effort. But it can absolutely be done. You can change your brain’s response to your anxiety-provoking stimulus by (C) creating / restricting a new neural pathway.

* divert: (방향 등을) 바꾸다 ** churn: 세차게 나아가다 *** momentum: 탄력, 추진력

          (A)                (B)             (C)

① necessary …… different …… creating

② necessary …… similar    …… creating

③ necessary …… different  …… restricting

④ unnecessary …… similar …… restricting

⑤ unnecessary …… different …… restricting

 

Content of the text: 두려움을 극복할 때 가장 큰 어려움중 하나는 뇌는 빨리 배울지라도, 뇌는 학습내용을 빨리 잊지 않는다. 즉 현재 두려워하는 것을 두려워하지 않는 새로운 경로를 만드는 것은 노력이 필요하다.

 

<creating a new neural pathway [that is unafraid of [what you currently fear]]> 수능서 빈칸문제로 나올수 있다.