2019 ebs 수능완성 영어 6강 원문

2019 수능완성 6강.hwp

0.03MB

 

2019 수능완성 6강

Let’s Check It Out

Mikhail Kalatozov was born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia. After studying economics, Kalatozov started out in films as an actor. However, he soon became a skilled cameraman in the tradition of the pioneers of Soviet cinema. After a series of documentary films, including the remarkable Salt for Svanetia, he tangled with Stalinist censorship: in 1932, his film Nail in the Boot was banned and he withdrew from filmmaking for a time. The general mobilisation at the beginning of the war gave him an opportunity to return to direction, and he made several patriotic propaganda films before being sent to the United States as cultural attaché from 1941 to 1945. When he returned to the Soviet Union, he held a post in the film industry before turning once more to directing films. The Cranes Are Flying was undoubtedly his most successful film; those that followed were not to prove particularly popular.

 

1

Mano a Mano is a charitable foundation based in Lima, Peru, that uses urban tourism as a tool for community development. It runs some extraordinary projects: alongside traditional education and healthcare efforts, it also trains otherwise marginalized women in construction and repair. Mano a Mano invests much time and energy in ensuring that its visitors are properly prepared and supported. Visitors are offered advice on personal safety in Lima alongside insights into the rich local culture and the difficulties of everyday life. Visitors spend most of their time with local people learning from them firsthand. This foundation can arrange airport pick-ups, and accommodation there is US$8 a night. There are cooking facilities and traditionally prepared food is available at a small extra cost. Advance booking is not always required. Visitors are invited to drop into their office, easily accessible from central Lima.

 

2

William Crotch was born in 1775. When he was only two years of age he showed a great enjoyment in music and could pick out on the organ keys such tunes as “God Save the King.” He would also play little melodies of his own, supplying them with a simple but correct harmony. He played before the King, royal family, and other titled personages of England, and was greeted with admiring wonder wherever his talents were displayed by his proud parents. At the age of four he had frequently appeared in public. He could name any tone heard by him, and took great delight in pleasant harmonies, though he could not hear a discord without expressing disgust. Crotch, though he was granted the degree of Doctor of Music in 1799 by Oxford University, and though regarded as a great musician in his day, is now almost unknown to the musical world.

 

3

Loons spend much of their year on saltwater, mostly in coastal areas and bays, where the surface remains unfrozen in winter; they breed on freshwater. Loons are amazingly fast and accomplished underwater swimmers that can pursue and capture fast-moving fish. Most fish are captured 5 to 30 feet down. Loons disappear below the surface with a thrust of their powerful feet and typically reappear far away. When in deeper water, they typically jump into the air at the beginning of a dive, to provide added momentum. In addition to fish, they sometimes eat crustaceans, mollusks, frogs, and even occasionally some plant material. Small fish are swallowed underwater; larger ones and spiny ones are brought to the surface to be disabled and positioned advantageously prior to swallowing. Outside the breeding season, loons gather to feed and roost in flocks of hundreds or even thousands.

 

4

An inventor named Nick Holonyak has actually spent his entire career working on replacing the light bulb. The son of Hungarian immigrants, Nick Holonyak grew up in a coal mining town in southern Illinois. He saw the devastation of the coal miner’s life up close—including violent strikes, Depression-era layoffs, deadly explosions, and black lung disease. When Holonyak was ten years old, his father gave him a pocketknife and said, “Make what you need.” He learned to apply his mental capacity to his everyday problems and desires, first by whittling, then by taking apart telephones and fixing car engines. He ended up receiving his degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. In the early 1950s, Holonyak became the first graduate student of John Bardeen, who had co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs, a breakthrough that led to the first of Bardeen’s unprecedented two Nobel Prizes in physics. The opportunity to have the serene and brilliant Bardeen as a mentor and role model “was pretty lucky for me,” Holonyak recalls. “I was not 100 percent smart.”