[청랑 킬러문항] 2027 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #80

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지문)

Much of what passes for self-help today rests on a quiet promise: clear away the negativity, and contentment will take its place. The trouble is that this promise mistakes the nature of the problem. Difficulty does not leave a life; it changes shape. A person who escapes one set of burdens simply finds another waiting. The question worth asking, then, is not how to live without problems but which problems are worth having. People who anchor their sense of worth to things outside their control — constant admiration, an unblemished record, unbroken confidence — hand the terms of their own satisfaction to forces that shift without warning. No amount of effort can stabilize what was never theirs to govern. Those who instead commit to values within their reach — honesty in what they say, care in what they make, responsibility for what they do — face difficulties that are real but answerable, because improvement is a matter of choice and practice rather than circumstance. This shift in thinking also changes how failure reads. If some measure of pain is built into any serious undertaking, then running from it is not caution but a refusal to move at all. To grow is to accept being wrong, to change one's mind when the evidence demands it, and to acknowledge what cannot be changed. Even the fact of death serves this purpose: knowing that time runs out strips away what does not matter. Taken together, the passage argues that a meaningful life depends less on feeling good than on ______________________.

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Vocabulary

unblemished	흠 없는, 오점 없는
anchor	(비유) ~에 고정하다, 묶어두다
stabilize	안정시키다
govern	통제하다, 지배하다
answerable	해결 가능한, 대응할 수 있는
undertaking	과업, 시도
strip away	벗겨내다, 제거하다
caution	신중함, 조심
circumstance	상황, 환경
mortality	죽을 운명, 유한성

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① holding out for conditions that remove the need for risk or discomfort altogether
② taking ownership of one's values and accepting the hardships that honest commitments bring
③ widening the range of available options so that no single choice ever feels permanent
④ earning enough recognition from others to confirm that one's efforts have been worthwhile
⑤ waiting until the outcome is certain before committing to any course of action

 

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