9급 지방직 영어 2026년 기출문제

Unfortunately, the survey results show that children’s health is ____________ due to overconsumption of fast food.

I suggest that you discuss this matter ____________ if you don’t want many people to know about it.

A small plaque _____________ from mammoth ivory, dating from 30,000 BCE, is thought to have been carved by prehistoric humans to represent the constellation Orion.

A: Hello, emergency services.

B: My friend broke his arm while skateboarding! There are no taxis around.

A: Please tell me your exact location.

B: We’re in front of the main entrance of city hall.

A: I’m sending an ambulance to your location.

B: _______________________________________________?

A: The nearest ambulance has already been dispatched, so it should arrive within a few minutes.

B: Thank you so much.

Personality typing is a system of categorizing people ① depending on how they think and act in certain situations―but there are clear differences between different personality type systems and what they can tell you about yourself. The Myers and Briggs personality system and the Enneagram of Personality are two leading personality typing systems ② that are used around the world. Both systems help people ③ gains a better insight into their career possibilities, the dynamics of their relationships, the working patterns of their employees and even their own thought patterns. Some personality typologists prefer ④ to use one system over the other but the two systems are often used together. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses.

Moltbook is a site ① where the AI agents―bots built by humans―can post and interact with each other. It is designed to look like Reddit, ② with subreddits on different topics and upvoting*. On 2 February the platform stated it had more than 1.5 million AI agents signed up to the service. Humans are allowed, but only ③ as observers. Moltbook was developed in the wake of Moltbot, a free and open-source AI bot that can act as an automated agent for users―doing the mundane tasks assigned to it such as reading, summarising and responding to emails, organising a calendar or ④ book a table at a restaurant.

* upvoting: ‘좋아요’ 누르기

Giraffes may all look identical to us. But none has exactly the same markings―and certain patterns, especially large, round patches, can boost their chances of survival before they turn 4 months old. Biologists can’t decide why giraffes evolved patches. David Lee at the Nature Institute in South Carolina and his colleagues examined 258 wild baby Masai giraffes in Tanzania for clues to the impact of patches on the animals. They found that calves with fewer, larger spots had a 17 percent higher chance of survival than those with more, smaller spots. They also found that those with more round spots had a 27 percent higher survival rate than those with elliptical* spots.

* elliptical: 타원형의

In the face of significant education policy challenges such as emerging skills shortages and the need for teaching and learning innovation, schools are seeking ways to enhance school effectiveness.

(A) By assisting teachers to better understand student learning processes and education policies, schools can improve teacher effectiveness and address the looming teacher shortage resulting from retiring baby-boomers and staff who leave when their term contracts end.

(B) Schools should then effectively and efficiently convey this vital information to teachers in a way that maintains the teaching quality.

(C) To survive these shortages, schools must put processes in place before teachers leave and their pedagogical knowledge leaves with them. Because of the ageing workforce, it is critical to have effective succession planning in place to capture this knowledge.

The gap probably had more to do with each school’s resources than with a student’s daily ration of chocolate cereal.

We’ve all heard that kids who eat breakfast do better in school. ( ① ) It makes sense; it’s hard to focus on an empty stomach. ( ② ) But despite their best attempts, researchers haven’t been able to pinpoint why breakfast aids learning―if that’s even the case. ( ③ ) A study of elementary school students found that, in some schools, kids behaved better after they ate breakfast; in other schools, they acted worse. ( ④ ) Students at well-equipped schools behave better regardless of their diet.

Films, like literary works, are powerful instruments of education. ① On a simpler level, English language movies can be used in classrooms as a vehicle for teaching the English language. ② However, the animated film Future Galaxy deals with social issues from a historical perspective. ③ But on a higher level, movies can be used as prisms through which one can learn how to understand, analyze and “read” complex aspects of the world humans have constructed and deconstructed in diverse issues in cultural, social, political, and economic spheres. ④ Perhaps not most, but many Hollywood movies can be an insightful source to teach not only American culture, but also socio-economic-political-historical facets in content-based classes.

Recently, it has been demonstrated in a series of ingenious experiments that we even perceive colors through ______________________________________________. There are radical variations in the way languages carve up the spectrum of visible light; for example, green and blue are distinct colors in English but are considered shades of the same color in many languages. And it turns out that the colors that our language routinely obliges us to treat as distinct can refine our purely visual sensitivity to certain color differences in reality, so that our brains are trained to exaggerate the distance between shades of color if these have different names in our language. As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Most of us put a lot of stock in what scientists tell us because we know that scientists reach their conclusions by gathering and analyzing facts. If someone asked you why you believe that smoking is bad and jogging is good, or that the earth is round and the galaxy is flat, you would point to the facts. You might need to explain that you do not personally know the facts to which you are pointing, but that you do know that at some time in the past, a bunch of very earnest people in white lab coats went out and watched the world, wrote down what they looked into, analyzed what they wrote down, and then told the rest of us what to believe. Scientists are credible because they draw conclusions from _____________, and ever since the empiricists trumped the dogmatists* and became the kings of ancient Greek medicine, westerners have had a special reverence for conclusions that are based on things they can see.

* dogmatist: 교조주의자