[청랑 킬러문항] 2027 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #78

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What a speaker can think may be shaped, in part, by the language that speaker has learned to use. This is the central claim of linguistic relativity — not in its radical form, which holds that language determines thought outright, but in a more defensible version: that grammar and vocabulary quietly set the boundaries of habitual perception. Studies of spatial language offer concrete evidence. Communities whose languages rely on fixed compass points rather than body-centered directions such as "left" and "right" show striking advantages in orientation tasks, even when placed in wholly unfamiliar settings. Their linguistic habit, repeated across a lifetime, has sharpened a particular way of reading the physical world. A comparable pattern appears in languages that grammatically obligate speakers to specify the source of their knowledge — whether something was seen firsthand or only heard from others. Speakers raised with such structures tend to interrogate the basis of a claim more rigorously than those whose languages impose no such obligation. What these cases share is a picture of language not as a prison that forecloses certain thoughts, but as a groove worn into the mind through constant repetition — one that makes some paths of reasoning feel natural and leaves others largely untraveled. The real error, then, is not speaking any particular language, but treating its categories as though they were ______________________.

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Vocabulary

linguistic relativity	언어적 상대성
outright	완전히, 전면적으로
compass point	기본 방위
orientation	방향 감각, 공간 인식
obligate	의무적으로 ~하게 하다
firsthand	직접적인, 1차적인
interrogate	따져 묻다, 검토하다
foreclose	차단하다, 봉쇄하다
groove	홈, (비유) 굳어진 경로
untraveled	다니지 않은, 개척되지 않은

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① the product of centuries of deliberate refinement by grammarians and scholars
② a shared cognitive inheritance common to all human beings regardless of culture
③ a transparent and neutral record of how the world actually is
④ boundaries drawn by political authority to regulate thought and expression
⑤ arbitrary inventions with no bearing on how their speakers perceive the world

 

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