2027 EBS 수능특강 영어 - 원문 출처 정리 (Test 01)

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[Test 01 - 01번]

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Dear Pollet Toys, We are considering ordering 50 striped 2-inch plastic balls for the city-wide Youth Activity Day on June 14. According to your website, the balls are normally sold in individual plastic and cardboard packages. However, we will not need packaging or transportation for our order as we can pick up the balls, packed loose in cardboard boxes, directly from your warehouse. Given these circumstances, I would like to request a discount on our order. I believe that a discount of at least 25% would be reasonable. If you agree to this, please confirm the agreement in writing. If not, I would appreciate a call at 555-5555 as soon as possible so we can reach a mutually agreeable arrangement. I look forward to your positive response and hope that we can finalize the order details soon. Sincerely, Granville Community Center

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出版品國際交換的探討

顧潔光 · 2000

... look forward to your positive response and hope that we can begin exchanging publications soon . You may send the requested materials directly to our museum . Our address is : Sincerely yours , Taiwan Museum , Library 48 , Hsuchou Road ...

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[Test 01 - 02번]

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Noah sat on the park bench, watching people set up telescopes. His parents had brought him to see a meteor shower, but he didn't care much. He had never thought the night sky was interesting. Stars were just tiny dots, and he didn't see why people were so excited. He folded his arms and stared at the ground, waiting for time to pass. Around him, voices buzzed with excitement, but he barely listened. Then, a sudden wave of surprise spread through the crowd. He looked up. A bright line of light shot across the sky, then another. The meteors burned fast, disappearing in seconds. His eyes widened. How often did this happen? Could he predict the next one? Were there more coming? He leaned forward, scanning every corner of the sky. The stars, once meaningless, now held his full attention. For the first time, he truly wanted to see more.

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[Test 01 - 03번]

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Employees who are not privacy "literate" represent a vulnerability for businesses. They may compromise privacy and security measures and expose personal or confidential information without realizing it. Employee online access rights can and should be limited to what each employee needs to perform his or her job. However, while physical barriers, firewalls, passwords, and other security measures are useful, for most organizations access to large amounts of sensitive information by employees is necessary to do business. The key to ensuring employee adherence to privacy and security measures is to educate them and to develop a practice of ongoing education and other opportunities for reinforcement of the role that all employees play in securing critical information privacy by adhering to proper privacy and security protocols. Employees may have differing levels of access to information, but all should understand the importance of protecting private or confidential information and how their actions affect the security of this information. The very nature of private or commercially confidential information means that it should not be made publicly available.

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Information Privacy Fundamentals for Librarians and Information Professionals

Cherie L. Givens · 2014-10-14

... compromise privacy and security measures and expose personal or confidential information without realizing it. Employee online access rights can and should be limited to what each employee needs to perform his or her job. However, while ...

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[Test 01 - 04번]

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An odd, but interesting trigger I ran across while researching, was introduced by a man called Robert who had already recovered about 75 percent from RSI after reading Dr. Sarno's second book. He would have been nearly 100 percent recovered but he could not change the pattern of pain that occurred when using his right index finger to click the computer's mouse. In Robert's own words, "The strange part is that my finger and hand don't hurt when I close my eyes and move/click the mouse. It's as if the screen (and software) is the trigger for the pain!" He reduces his visual acuity when he closes his eyes, one of his senses. So, closing his eyes allegorically opens them by removing the sensory trigger. If he unconsciously despises staring at his computer screen because staring at it is in conflict with his unconscious wants and needs, then closing his eyes "cuts out" the source of information that triggers his anger, i.e., his eyesight. Sight is one of the senses that blinds us (Lao Tzu).

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closing his eyes allegorically opens them by removing the sensory trigger

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[Test 01 - 05번]

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Handing over decision making to your children is a gradual process based on their age, maturity, and decision-making history. It would be downright dangerous to give children complete latitude in their decision making. You can, however, begin to teach decision making to very young children by setting reasonable limits to their decisions. For example, if you took your children into a convenience store and told them they could have anything they wanted, they would be overwhelmed by the choices (which, research shows, either tend to prevent people from making decisions or result in poor decisions). However, you can give them limited options to choose from, such as jawbreakers, licorice, and bubble gum (or, better yet, sesame sticks, fruit wraps, and yogurt peanuts), and they would then decide which treat they want. Your children will learn to make decisions, but they won't be inundated by the huge number of options available to them.

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Raising Generation Tech

Jim Taylor · 2012-08

... teach decision making to very young children by setting reasonable limits to their decisions . For example , if you took your children into a convenience store and told them they can have anything they wanted , they would be overwhelmed ...

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[Test 01 - 06번]

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When we were investigating why Americans valued meat so much, we found widespread confusion among consumers about which foods are healthy and sustainable. As part of the project, we asked consumers to sort different foods in any way they thought they should be grouped. Participants ended up dividing foods into groups such as fruits, vegetables, and dairy. However, most consumers didn't know how to sort plant-based "milks" and meat alternatives. Interestingly, they didn't consider them as part of any typical food group. In addition, most people still don't understand (or trust) lab-grown or cultured meats. The reaction to lab-grown meats will likely be similar to the often negative reactions to and suspicions of genetically modified foods when they first came on the market. These gaps in literacy of emerging technologies hinder the successful implementation of products that could have environmental and health benefits.

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Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?

Jessica Fanzo · 2021-06-22

... found widespread confusion among consumers about which foods are healthy and sustainable. As part of the project, we asked consumers to sort different foods in any way they think they should be grouped . Participants ended up 176 CAN ...

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[Test 01 - 07번]

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In an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, study subjects were required to give a series of unplanned speeches in front of an audience (a reliable way to trigger anxiety). Half of the participants were then asked to engage in what the researchers call "affect labeling," filling in responses to the prompt "I feel ____________," while the other half were asked to complete a neutral shape-matching task. The affect-labeling group showed steep declines in heart rate and skin conductance compared to the control group, whose levels of physiological arousal remained high. Brain-scanning studies offer further evidence of the calming effect of affect labeling: simply naming what is felt reduces activity in the amygdala, the brain structure involved in processing fear and other strong emotions. Meanwhile, thinking in a more involved way about feelings and the experiences that evoked them actually produces greater activity in the amygdala.

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labeling group showed steep declines in heart rate and skin conductance compared

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The Extended Mind

Annie Murphy Paul · 2021

... labeling group showed steep declines in heart rate and skin conductance compared to the control group, whose levels of physiological arousal remained high. Brain-scanning studies offer further evidence of the calming effect of affect ...

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[Test 01 - 08번]

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The charts above show U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by source for the year 2020, with a particular focus on emissions from agriculture. The largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2020 was transportation, accounting for over a quarter of the total U.S. emissions. The percentage of greenhouse gas emissions produced by electricity generation, which was the second-largest source in the overall emissions chart, was more than twice as high as that generated by agriculture. Industry produced a larger share of emissions than the combined total from commercial and residential sources. Meanwhile, within agricultural emissions, emissions from agricultural soil management were the most significant, contributing to half of the total agricultural emissions.

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larger share of emissions than the combined total from commercial and residential

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[Test 01 - 09번]

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Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, was born on September 16, 1923, and is of third-generation ethnic Chinese descent. He excelled in the Senior Cambridge examinations in 1940, earning the John Anderson Scholarship to attend Raffles College. During the prize-awarding ceremony, he met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo, the only girl in the school. The onset of World War II in Asia disrupted Raffles College, which was converted into a medical facility in 1941. After the war, Lee chose not to return to Raffles College and pursued higher education in the United Kingdom. Initially, he enrolled at the London School of Economics but eventually studied law at Cambridge University. Lee Kuan Yew served as prime minister for 31 years, from 1959 to 1990. While his government restricted freedoms and maintained strict control over power, he also built excellent public housing, transforming Singapore into one of Asia's wealthiest countries.

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return to Raffles College and pursued higher education in the United Kingdom

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[Test 01 - 12번]

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Jean Baudrillard, one of the best-known French social theorists, believes that the world of culture today is based on simulation, not reality. According to Baudrillard, social life is much more a spectacle that simulates reality than reality itself. People often gain "reality" from the media, where reality is not always as it might appear. Many U.S. children, upon entering school for the first time, have already watched more hours of television than the total number of hours of classroom instruction they will encounter in their entire school careers. Add to this the number of hours that some will have spent playing computer games or surfing the Internet. Baudrillard refers to this social creation as hyperreality ― a situation in which the simulation of reality is more real than the thing itself. For Baudrillard, everyday life has been captured by the signs and symbols generated to represent it, and we ultimately relate to simulations and models as if they were reality.

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hours of television than the total number of hours of classroom instruction

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Postmodernism is Not What You Think

Charles C. Lemert · 2015-12-03

... hours of television than the total number of hours of classroom instruction they will encounter in their school careers. The media, notably television (more recently its extension and transformation in the many new forms of cyberreal ...

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[Test 01 - 13번]

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Things become complicated when we consider a task that involves multiple processes differing in automaticity. In a psychological task, people are required to name aloud the color of words while ignoring the words themselves. Sometimes, the words are compatible with the color with which they are printed (e.g., "red" printed with red ink). In other conditions, the words are incompatible with their color (e.g., "red" printed in blue). People usually complete this task more slowly in incompatible than compatible conditions. On incompatible trials, people do not intend to respond to the meaning of the word (the task is to name the ink color, not the word), but they typically become aware that it is easier said than done. They realize their attention is being drawn to the content of the words, despite its irrelevance to the task at hand and their intention to ignore it. To overcome this automatic draw on attention, people must assert control to report a judgment that has been made challenging by a competing automatic process. So, in this case, people are aware of an automatic process, but they cannot stop it and have difficulty correcting its influence.

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must assert control to report a judgment that has been made challenging

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Social Cognition

David L. Hamilton, Steven J. Stroessner · 2020-11-11

... must assert control to report a judgment that has been made challenging by a competing automatic process. So, in this case, people are aware of an automatic process, but they cannot stop it and have difficulty correcting its influence ...

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[Test 01 - 14번]

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If you told me that you don't like sharp cheeses, I would believe you. If you said that you don't like the texture of very soft cheeses, I would pity you, but I would believe you. But if you say that you don't like any cheese, I don't believe you because cheeses simply don't taste, look, or feel the same. What my friend dislikes is something being called "cheese." I'm sure that he had a bad cheese experience in childhood. He ate something he didn't like and learned that "cheese" is bad. With that negative attitude, he quickly rejected anything else called "cheese" (and very likely did not have a wide experience with cheeses anyway), reinforcing his belief that "cheese" is bad. As a result, this friend, who is in other respects normal, cannot bear to eat anything that he believes is called "cheese." He actually thinks that there is some flavor or property of cheese that makes it taste bad to him. But that is not the case: cheeses don't share a particular texture or flavor or source. He hates the category, not the actual stuff.

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flavor or property of cheese that makes it taste bad to him

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Categories We Live By

Gregory L. Murphy · 2024-01-09

... flavor or property of cheese that makes it taste bad to him . But that is not the case : cheeses don't share a particular texture or flavor or source . He hates the cat- egory , not the actual stuff . I think we know other people who ...

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[Test 01 - 15번]

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The issue of cultural variation in emotions has been controversial. At first, it was widely believed that different cultures produced radically different emotional states, so that a person from one culture could not even begin to understand what someone from another culture was feeling. This view received a severe blow from evidence that people from very different cultures could translate emotion words effectively and even recognize facial expressions of emotion. A highly influential research program by Paul Ekman and his associates began with photographs of facial expressions that Americans would easily recognize as expressing different basic emotions: angry, sad, happy, and the like. Ekman and his group traveled all over the world showing the photographs to people in widely different cultures, including even some distant tribes that had had almost no contact with Western civilization. By and large, most people in every culture recognized the emotions expressed in those American faces. These results convinced most doubters that some aspects of emotions are innate and universal.

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The Cultural Animal

Roy F. Baumeister · 2005-02-10

... facial expressions that Americans would easily recognize as expressing different basic emotions : angry , sad , happy , and the like . Ekman and his group traveled all over the world show- ing the photographs to people in widely ...

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[Test 01 - 16번]

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Good thinkers rarely limit themselves to a single way of understanding the world. For example, when Galileo finally got around to doing some empirical studies of gravity, he was plagued by the inaccuracies of the current technology of measurement. Instead of waiting a couple of hundred years for the invention of a good stopwatch, he slowed things down by studying the behavior of bodies rolling down inclined planes. By doing so, Galileo was able to demonstrate quite convincingly that heavy and light objects "fell" at the same rate. In addition, he was able to show something more subtle and perhaps more important. Things don't simply fall at a constant rate: they constantly accelerate. Of course, accepting Galileo's conclusions requires us to make some logical inferences about the compatibility of rolling and falling, but this is exactly the point. Galileo was not simply a good logician or a good observer. One of his unique talents was his ability to blend logic and observation into a seamless set of arguments that could knock someone's socks off (and predict how quickly they would fall to the floor).

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Introductory Psychology in Modules

Brett Pelham, David Boninger · 2020-11-09

... slowed things down by studying the behavior of bodies rolling down inclined planes (Asimov, 1964; Harré, 1981). By doing so, Galileo was able to demonstrate that heavy and light objects "fell" at the same rate. In addition, he was able ...

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[Test 01 - 17번]

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Accustomed to bargains and overwhelmed with options, consumers must have a reason to buy now. In addition to the actual product they're buying, consumers expect something more, an incentive that will give them an extra emotional charge. Customization, an event, multiple uses for the product, entertaining pop-up stores, or a great story (such as a special product heritage or theme) are more examples of plus-one incentives that result in purchases. "Do-good" products such as those that tout being environmentally conscious or supporting communities offer not just one but three plus-one purchasing incentives: a compelling and human story, rationalization, and an emotional boost for the consumer who feels altruistic while spending. For example, consumers who purchase Tom's Shoes or Walgreen's flu shots are told that their purchase will result in a pair of shoes or a flu shot being donated to someone in need through each company's one-to-one matching program. Thus, in addition to their purchase, consumers also get to see themselves in a more positive light; they feel less wary about these businesses, which have been humanized through a compelling story of need; and they have the rationalization of giving rather than spending.

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environmentally conscious or supporting communities offer not just one but three plus

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Decoding the New Consumer Mind

Kit Yarrow · 2014-03-31

... environmentally conscious or supporting communities offer not just one but three plus - one purchasing incentives : a compelling and human story , rationalization , and an emotional boost for the consumer who feels altruistic while ...

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[Test 01 - 18번]

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Postage stamps were born bearing images of state sovereignty and authority. Taking their cue from coins and banknotes, postal officials understood that the stamps they were printing to facilitate the circulation of letters and packages among the population could also be used for a different kind of circulation: that of state imagery. Postage stamps, tiny though they were, nonetheless had space enough for the state to use them to circulate messages announcing its own supremacy. Iconic images of flags and coats of arms began to circulate on stamps, but, above all, stamps hosted portraits of the personages considered uniquely suitable to stand for the nation-state: heads of state, allegorical figures, military heroes, and other historically important men. From the beginning, then, stamps depicted state power expressed in images of exemplary personhood even as they provided ordinary people with an important means for communicating with one another.

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The American Stamp

Laura Goldblatt, Richard Handler · 2023-02-13

... exemplary personhood even as they provided ordinary people with an important means for communicating with one another.4 The prototype for the depiction of exemplary personhood on postage stamps was the Penny Black, the world's first ...

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[Test 01 - 19번]

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There's a difference between a story and a plot. They may seem to be the same thing (a narrative account of some action with a beginning, middle, and end), but they aren't. A story, as opposed to a plot, is the straightforward account of everything that happens in the order that it happens. A plot is the way events are selected and arranged with an emphasis not only on what happened but on why it happened. In other words, plots involve cause and effect, not just one event following another. The English novelist E. M. Forster illustrated the difference between story and plot by this example. Here's a story: The king died and then the queen died. This is a succession of events, simply organized temporally: this happened and then this happened. Here's a plot: The king died and then the queen died of grief. Events are now connected by cause and effect: the death of the king led to the death of the queen from grief. For Forster, a story asks "And then?" (X happens and then Y happens). A plot asks "Why?

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straightforward account of everything that happens in the order that it happens

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The Handy Literature Answer Book

Daniel S. Burt, Deborah G. Felder · 2018-07-01

... straightforward account of everything that happens in the order that it happens. A plot is the way events are selected and arranged with an emphasis not only on what happened but on why it happened. In other words, plots involve cause ...

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[Test 01 - 20번]

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Married couples are highly motivated to empathize with one another; to do this, they mimic each other's facial expressions, which in turn facilitates similar emotional experiences. People who are on the same page get along better and are more likely to stay happily married. Over time, research confirms, this mimicry leads to permanent changes in how the face is shaped. In one study, more than a hundred volunteers were shown photographs of men and women taken in their first year of marriage and taken twenty-five years later, on the spouses' silver wedding anniversary. They were also shown photos of randomly matched pairs at the same ages. The volunteers were asked to judge the physical similarity of the couples. Sure enough, there was an increase in similarity among the married couples at the twenty-five-year mark, but not the randomly matched pairs. Most striking, the more similar people looked, the happier they reported they were in their union. So next time you are struggling to connect with your spouse, try to subtly mimic his or her facial expression; it is likely to make you feel in sync and strengthen that emotional link that can weaken in times of strife.

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How the Body Knows Its Mind

Sian Beilock · 2017-03-14

... volunteers were shown photographs of men and women taken in their first year of marriage and taken twenty-five years later, on the spouses' silver wedding anniversary. They were also shown photos of randomly matched pairs at the same ...

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[Test 01 - 21번]

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In the 1960s, Richard Thompson, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Irvine, recorded the activity of single neurons in the cortex of cats while the animals were presented with series of tones or of light flashes. Some cells fired only after a certain number of events. One neuron, for instance, reacted after six events of any kind, regardless of whether this was six flashes of light, six brief tones, or six longer tones. Sensory modality did not seem to matter: The neuron apparently cared only about number. Unlike a digital computer, it did not respond in a discrete all-or-none manner, either. Rather, its activation level grew after the fifth item, reached a peak for the sixth, and decreased for larger numbers of items. Several similar cells, each tuned to a different number, were recorded in a small area of the cat's cortex.

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The Number Sense

Stanislas Dehaene · 2011-04-29

... animals were presented with series of tones or of light flashes.16 Some cells fired only after a certain number of events. One neuron, for instance, reacted after six events of any kind, regardless of whether this was six flashes of ...

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[Test 01 - 22번]

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Information technology can play an important role in both bringing communities together and splitting them apart. On the one hand, IT has the potential to increase shared information and norms across larger groups. For instance, in the 1960s, most Americans got their news from one of three national television networks and a small number of other publications. If Walter Cronkite, a famous American broadcast journalist, said it, many Americans believed it was true. That almost certainly helped spread more shared norms across a country that previously had strong regional differences. But in the 2016 presidential election, many Americans got their news from social networking sites and other online media that created highly tailored news feeds for each individual. If you had liberal friends and interests, you were rarely exposed to conservative news outlets, and vice versa. In a community where each subgroup saw a different set of facts about the world and had a different value system for interpreting those facts, the shared norms needed for the overall community to function effectively were greatly weakened. In a sense, the United States seemed to be fragmenting into two separate communities.

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spread more shared norms across a country that previously had strong regional

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Superminds

Thomas W. Malone · 2018-05-15

... spread more shared norms across a country that previously had strong regional differences . But in the 2016 election , many Americans got their news from Facebook and other online media that created highly tailored news feeds for each ...

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[Test 01 - 23번]

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Animals often compete: over food, a mate, a territory, or some other resource. But rather than jump immediately to physical fighting, individuals typically engage in nonaggressive communicative displays, like the roaring of red deer, the "jousting" displays of stalk-eyed flies, the croaking of European toads, or the loud "wahoo" calls of male baboons. Ethologists now have a good understanding of how these displays have evolved ― that is, why they are evolutionarily stable. In red deer, for example, roaring is energetically costly, so only males in good physical condition can roar repeatedly, for long durations. Moreover, the acoustic features of a male's roar are constrained by his body size, so only large males can produce deep-pitched roars. And larger males are more successful fighters. As a consequence, a male's roaring cannot be faked ― because small males and males in poor condition cannot produce low-pitched roars at a high rate ― and roaring serves as an honest indicator of size, condition, and competitive ability. [Summary] Animals use displays to avoid physical fights, as these signals accurately reflect physical condition and size, making them reliable evolutionary indicators of competitive strength.

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The Social Origins of Language

Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney · 2017-12-05

... because small males and males in poor condition cannot produce low- pitched roars at a high rate—and roaring serves as an honest indicator of size, condition, and competitive ability. Natural selection has therefore favored listeners ...

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[Test 01 - 24~25번]

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To demonstrate how our minds have adapted, consider a typical high school task: writing a research paper. Baby Boomers most likely went to their local library, searched card catalogues, took longhand notes, and painstakingly typed their papers on a typewriter. Their challenge was in finding information. They memorized things like how to spell words, because reference materials weren't readily available and the process of checking was time consuming. And they were careful and precise when typing ― correcting took time. Baby Boomer brains were trained to focus, pay attention to detail, be patient, and have mental strength. Haste meant waste. Fast-forward to today. The Baby Boomer challenge of finding information is less relevant ― information is extremely accessible. Memorization and precision are less essential as well ― it's easy to check facts and spelling. This means that those brain activities don't get the workout today that they did for previous generations of high school students. Today's young brains are heavily focused on scanning and processing mountains of information. Their brains are trained for speed. But it's not only the young who are increasingly addicted to speed. Their saturation in and early use of technology makes them highly tuned to require more stimulation and become more easily bored ― but everyone's brains are changing. We're all less patient and less able to focus, and we all want things faster. It's no wonder we've replaced the word "trend" with "trending." We barely alight on a new idea long enough for it to be a trend; it's just zipping by or "trending.

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Decoding the New Consumer Mind

Kit Yarrow · 2014-03-18

... workout today that they did for previous generations of high school students . Today's young brains are heavily focused on scanning and processing mountains of information . Their brains are trained for speed . But it's not only the ...

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[Test 01 - 26~28번]

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In a village, there lived two friends named Jake and Ben. They spent most of their time resting under a tree, thinking about what they should do with their lives. One day, Jake noticed that the people in the village carried water pots from a river, which was far away. No matter how many trips they made, the water was never enough for their families' needs. Then, he came up with an idea and suggested to Ben that they fetch water for the villagers in exchange for 25 cents per pot. Ben thought it was a good idea and agreed. Jake and Ben presented their offer to the villagers, and everyone liked it. Soon, their business grew rapidly. They made 50 to 100 trips a day and became the richest men in all the nearby villages. After ten years, however, Jake started to worry about the future. "We are young and healthy now, but we won't stay this way forever. What will happen to our families then?" he asked. Ben laughed and said, "Don't worry about the future. We're doing great now! Just enjoy the moment." Jake, however, couldn't shake off his concern. One day, while visiting a neighboring village, Jake saw a potter making pots. He noticed a pot with a long, narrow neck and suddenly had an idea. "What if we build a long pipeline to bring water directly to the village?" Excited, he shared his idea with Ben. But Ben shook his head. "A pipeline made of clay? That will never work. It's a terrible idea." He gave a thousand reasons why it wouldn't work, but Jake wanted to try it, even if by himself. Jake had just one reason to try ― he believed in it. The construction began, and, as expected, many problems arose. The pipe broke several times, and there were countless challenges. But Jake didn't give up. After about seven months of hard work, the pipeline was finally completed, and water started flowing directly into the village. Now, Jake could provide thousands of pots of water each day, and he lowered the price to just 10 cents per pot. With this new system, money started flowing into Jake's pocket, while Ben was left jobless. After all, who would pay 25 cents for water when they could get it for 10 cents? Ben regretted ignoring Jake's idea, but Jake invited him to join the new project. Together, they expanded the pipeline and helped even more villages.

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