[청랑 킬러문항] 2027 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #65

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In the early twentieth century, the discovery that atoms were not indivisible but contained electrons orbiting a nucleus seemed to promise a complete picture of matter. Yet as physicists probed deeper, they encountered phenomena—such as the discrete energy levels of electrons and the wave-particle duality of light—that classical mechanics could not explain. Quantum theory emerged not because it was philosophically satisfying but because it successfully predicted experimental results that defied intuition. The theory's strange implications, from superposition to entanglement, were accepted only after they passed rigorous empirical tests: the photoelectric effect, spectral lines, and interference patterns all confirmed predictions that initially seemed absurd. Even Einstein, who contributed to quantum theory's foundations, remained uncomfortable with its probabilistic nature, yet he could not dismiss the overwhelming experimental evidence. The lesson was clear: a theory's internal elegance or conceptual appeal means little if it cannot survive confrontation with measurement. Nature, it turned out, cares nothing for human aesthetic preferences; it rewards only those frameworks that make precise, falsifiable claims and then withstand attempts to disprove them. Thus, the history of quantum mechanics illustrates that the proper role of theoretical elegance is to serve as ________________.

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Vocabulary

indivisible	나눌 수 없는
discrete	분리된, 불연속적인
duality	이중성
superposition	중첩(상태)
entanglement	얽힘(양자역학)
probabilistic	확률론적인
falsifiable	반증 가능한

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① a starting point for generating testable predictions rather than an end in itself 
② a substitute for experimental verification when laboratory tests prove impossible
③ the ultimate criterion for selecting between competing scientific explanations
④ a justification for preserving theories even after empirical anomalies appear
⑤ a framework that values mathematical consistency over observational accuracy

 

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