2026학년도 수능 영어 빈칸 변형 (30-42번)

____ ethics is an ethical theory that takes into account the context of a situation or an act when judging whether it is ethical.

Supporters of this theory willingly ____ casting aside absolute moral standards.

In the absence of a universal standard or ____, what matters is the outcome or consequences; so, the end justifies the means.

Possibly the following contrasting ____ can help illustrate the application of situational ethics.

In a pickup game of ____ played among friends, everyone is expected to call his or her own fouls or acknowledge knocking the ball out-of-bounds.

Caring about one’s friends and maybe getting to keep ____ with the group leads to these actions.

But, once an organized game is played with officials, most athletes ____ not admit to the same fouls or violations as the end goal of winning is more important than expressing concern for competitors.

Situational ethics has been extended by many athletes and ____ to mean trying to get away with as many actions on the field or court as possible to gain competitive advantages.

The early grain trade firms were active in both ____ and food deficit regions, and these firms made it their business to know the state of supply and demand in both.

Because this information was the key to their profitability, these firms worked in relative secrecy, frequently built on family ties, ____, and loyalty.

In addition, these firms were able to benefit from the rise of commodity ____ and commodities futures markets that emerged in the mid-1800s.

Agricultural markets are naturally unstable, due to changes in harvest size that result ____ variable weather patterns and other factors.

Locking-in prices by buying and selling grain for future delivery helped these firms to ____ such risks.

It made sense for the grain trading companies to manage their risks within a single ____ that was operating in more than one country, rather than operating as independent national companies trading with each other.

Their ____ to information in multiple markets enabled them to easily cover the risks associated with agricultural commodity trade.

The basic guidelines for good style are not mysterious; in fact, you use them every day in ____.

In conversation and in writing, we ____ rely heavily on cooperation to make sense of exchanges, and a polished practical style makes cooperation easier.

Writers develop such a style by acknowledging that readers expect the ____ things that listeners expect in conversation: clarity, relevance, and proportion.

If you listen to someone who is ____ clear, who cannot stay on the topic, or who offers too much or too little information, you will quickly lose interest in the conversation.

Writers, too, need to be clear, stay on the ____, and give information appropriately.

In fact, this attention to audience and appropriateness may be even more ____ in writing than in conversation because writing does not permit the nonverbal communication and immediate feedback that are part of conversation.

As writers, we have to ____ the absent reader’s response ; in effect, we have to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation.

Giving clients sufficient opportunity to react to your designs while in progress is a key to professional ____.

Similarly, involving prospective building users as well as ____ is even more valuable in the long run.

____ your client is a large corporation, such as a health care provider.

While the hospital administration may serve as your client, no doubt the perspectives of administration personnel will differ significantly from those of doctors, interns, residents, ____, and other medical staff who use the building regularly.

In addition, the experiences of patients and visitors who use the building irregularly, often as a result of ____ emergencies, are altogether different as well.

____ how each type of user experiences the current medical environment as well as how each reacts to your prospective designs inevitably produces a better building.

People are ____ to be more satisfied with a new building or addition if they have been consulted in the design process.

For a large ____, this can translate into increased productivity on the job, reduced absenteeism, less turnover, and lower costs.

Kant was a strong defender of the rule of law as the ultimate guarantee, not only of security and peace, but also of ____.

He believed that human societies were moving towards more ____ forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because only such frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to co-operate.

However, his belief in inevitable progress was not based on an optimistic or high-minded view of ____ nature.

On the contrary, it comes ____ to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent and conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in order to secure peace.

We cannot count on people’s ____ or goodwill, but even ‘a nation of devils’ can live in harmony in a legal system that binds every citizen equally.

Ideally, the law is the embodiment of those political principles that all rational ____ would freely choose.

If such laws ____ them to do something that they would not rationally choose to do anyway, then the law cannot be understood as a restraint on their freedom.

There are few of us who don’t at least want to make time for self-care activities such as exercise, ____, or relaxation.

We start each day with the best of intentions but ____ get stuck by the flood of email messages or pulled into an unexpected meeting.

As we struggle to reprioritize so we ____ get everything done before our deadlines, often our self-care activities are the first thing to be given up.

No matter how much we plan, we all occasionally have ____ when that happens.

In the ____ term, the impact of missing that grant deadline may be greater than the impact of missing a woodworking class.

But it’s important to recognize the cumulative impact of not prioritizing self-care and to make sure that in the long term, this is the exception rather ____ the norm.

We usually think of a clock as a physical thing, ____ an alarm clock or a wristwatch.

But a clock is ____ a process embodied in a machine, and the nature of that process is repetitive.

A clock can be almost any process that ____ itself over and over again for an indefinite period.

Water clocks ____ at a steady pace; quartz crystals vibrate regularly.

Indeed, it is almost impossible to think of a clock that does ____ depend on a repetitive cycle of events.

The only ____ that comes to mind readily is a candle marked in hours.

But here too there is iteration ― the repeated burning of molecules of wax ― so this too is an iterative ____, although at first masked.

The use of radiocarbon dating is another, much longer ____ clock that also appears to be like this.

It seems to yield a smooth time scale but in fact does not: the decay of atoms of carbon-14 is repetitive, although on a large scale it gives the appearance of being ____.

Philosophy allows us to ____ much broader questions than many other scientific disciplines.

It is capable of looking at the bigger picture and providing important insights into the relationships between ____ areas of knowledge.

Philosophy is particularly ____ for the interdisciplinary efforts of cognitive science, where it helps to bridge gaps between different disciplines and pioneer new ways for research.

Unlike scientific methods, philosophizing is a non-empirical approach that attempts to validate ____ through logical thinking and argumentation.

Philosophers tend to ask ____ rather than provide definitive answers, and their contributions often consist of challenging established assumptions and proposing new research approaches.

However, for a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of consciousness, ____ collaboration between philosophy and neuroscience is required.

This means that while philosophy can provide valuable insights into theoretical ____ and broader ethical questions, it needs to be supplemented by empirical findings and experiments to reach a more comprehensive understanding.

While stories clearly dominate statistics ____ both memorability and persuasiveness perspectives, it’s rarely a battle between facts and anecdotes ― or even facts and other facts.

The real clash is actually between stories: the ____ incumbent and a new challenger.

As storytelling creatures, we routinely ____ narratives to help us understand the world around us.

When we ____ different events or encounter various facts, our minds seek to make sense of them by forming stories around them.

For example, if you have had some bad experiences with graduates from a particular university, you may create a negative narrative in your ____ about people who went to that school.

Suddenly, you judge everyone from the university by what you’ve ____ on just a few unfortunate occasions.

Sometimes ____ internal narratives we form not only shape our beliefs and opinions but also become deeply rooted in our identity.

For example, the narratives you have formed around gun control or climate change are ____ likely related with your political ideology ― who you are as an individual.

A ____ game has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space.

The avatar’s bodily ____, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only way in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived.

As in the real world, perception requires ____.

The difference is that the action in the game world ____ only be explored through the virtual bodily space of the avatar.

Players extend their perceptual field into the game, encompassing the ____ actions of the avatar.

The feedback loop of perception and action that enables you to navigate the world around you is now one step removed: instead of perceiving primarily through interaction of your ____ body with the external world, you’re perceiving the game world through interaction of the avatar.

The entire perceptual system has ____ extended into the game world.

In modern societies, the performing arts form a distinct category of public entertainment in opposition to the mass distribution through the media of expertly staged performances which have ____ recorded and edited.

By contrast, theater, ballet, circus, concert, rodeo, storytelling, etc., unfold their signs in real space and ____, and engage audiences who respond cognitively and emotionally on the spot.

____ and audiences are involved in shared enjoyment.

But sometimes frustration ____ within the boundaries of such ritualistic events.

In industrialized and ____ cultures, the performing arts become economically unstable because the institutions which sustain them increasingly depend on public and corporate funding.

However, they retain their power of fascination for large, if not massive ____, who prize the experiential, risk-loaded and one-time event quality they afford.

In traditional and local cultures, performances still ____ and provide their audiences with a unique fulfillment in smaller scale, economically sustainable institutional settings.

In a situation of financial challenges due to reliance on ____ funding, the performing arts, which provide unique and live experiences, secure audiences who value those experiences.

There is an obvious problem with the history of dress in all of its displays and that is, although textiles survive from early periods and cultures of recorded history, actual garments do not provide an uninterrupted flow of ____ across the same long time-span.

Therefore, to give the study of dress equal ____ to other areas such as architecture, painting, prints, drawings and sculpture, it was inevitable that these other areas would provide much of the source material.

The history of ____ dress really only starts in the 17th century, and like all artefacts described as fine or decorative art, is a highly visual subject.

____, unlike most of the categories of collection and study that make up those areas, it is fluid rather than static.

Garments should be seen in movement on a human body, not frozen on a ____ figure.

This is ____ of the many difficulties when curating collections of costume and also why some modern writers find costume collections physically and intellectually lifeless.

Fortunately, in the period after 1660, when more items of dress survive to enrich our understanding of the history of the subject, there are also ____ painted, printed, photographed and filmed sources of evidence of people in clothing, caught in movement.

Often a variety of different types of illustrative ____ will provide evidence about how a garment was worn within the period in which it was made.

Without the information contained in art in all of its ____, from drawing to sculpture, it is likely that displays of historic dress would be awkward imitations of the intentions of their original makers and owners.