[청랑 킬러문항] 2027 수능 영어 빈칸 문제 #82

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지문)

People tend to think of memory as something like a recording — a fixed account of what happened that can be played back when needed. Research in cognitive neuroscience tells a different story. Remembering is not retrieval but construction. Each time a past event comes to mind, the brain pieces it back together from fragments: sensory impressions, feelings at the time, and things learned afterward. Because the pieces are reassembled rather than replayed, the result is easily shaped by what a person has come to know or believe since the original experience. Post-event information slips into recollection without announcement, and suggestions from others can settle into memory as though they were one's own. Courts have long treated this as a problem, and for good reason — a witness who unknowingly rewrites what they saw is a serious liability. Yet evolutionary psychologists point out that the same feature driving this weakness is also what makes a particular human strength possible. A mind that can take apart a memory and put it back together in new combinations is not limited to rehearsing the past. It can borrow elements from different experiences and arrange them into scenes that have never occurred. The unreliability of memory, then, is less a flaw to be corrected than the unavoidable cost of being able to ______________________.

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Vocabulary

retrieval	인출, 되찾기
fragment	파편, 조각
reassemble	재조립하다, 다시 모으다
recollection	회상, 기억
liability	위험 요소, 약점
rehearse	되풀이하다, 반복하여 떠올리다
evolutionary	진화적인
feature	특성, 속성
arrange	배열하다, 구성하다
unavoidable	불가피한, 피할 수 없는

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문제) What best completes the blank?

① store personal experiences with enough precision to serve as reliable legal evidence
② draw on the stored knowledge of others to compensate for gaps in one's own recall
③ block out memories that no longer serve any useful psychological purpose
④ separate what was genuinely witnessed from what was later suggested by others
⑤ mentally construct scenes and futures that lie beyond the reach of direct experience 

 

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