이번 2026학년도 대학수학능력시험 분석자료는 영어과 팀장 박기순 선생님께서 시행해주셨습니다.

"영어, 지난해와 비슷…출제경향 유지하면서 변별력↑“

2026학년도 대학수학능력시험(수능) 영어 영역이 지난해 수능과 9월 모의평가와 유사한 출제경향을 유지하면서도 변별력 있는 문항들로 구성됐다. 새로운 유형의 문제는 출제되지 않고 기존 유형대로 출제됐으며 어려운 문제가 적절히 섞여 상위권 변별이 가능할 것으로 보인다.

어휘는 전체적으로 평이하게 출제됐으나, 일부 어휘는 부가적 의미로 출제돼 평소 어휘를 깊게 공부하지 않은 학생들은 어려움을 느꼈을 것으로 예상된다. 매력적 오답의 선택지가 있는 문제들이 많아서 체감 난도가 높았을 것이다.

고난도 문항으로는 빈칸추론 32번과 34번, 문장삽입 39번이 꼽힌다.

주요 특징으로는 문제 난이도 높이는 방법의 고도화를 들 수 있습니다. 지문 난이도에 비해 선지 구성을 어렵게 하고 곳곳에 함정을 배치했다.

앞으로 자기 진단 객관화를 선행하고, 글에 대한 완전한 이해력 높이기에 주력하는 연습을 지속적으로 연습해야할 것으로 보인다.

끝으로 위에 언급한 고난도 문제 세 문항을 살펴보자.

32. The basic guidelines for good style are not mysterious; in fact, you use them every day in conversation. In conversation and in writing, we all rely heavily on cooperation to make sense of exchanges, and a polished practical style makes cooperation easier. Writers develop such a style by acknowledging that readers expect the same things that listeners expect in conversation: clarity, relevance, and proportion. If you listen to someone who is not clear, who cannot stay on the topic, or who offers too much or too little information, you will quickly lose interest in the conversation. Writers, too, need to be clear, stay on the topic, and give information appropriately. In fact, this attention to audience and appropriateness may be even more important in writing than in conversation because writing does not permit the nonverbal communication and immediate feedback that are part of conversation. As writers, we have to _______________________; in effect, we have to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation. [3점]

① recognize the limitations of writing and conversation

② envision the reader’s preference for stylistic writing

③ picture the reader’s desire for more knowledge

④ develop collaborative writing with readers

⑤ anticipate the absent reader’s response

(정답) ⑤번

(풀이) 세미콜론(;) 뒤의 문장 in effect, we have to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation 가 결정적 단서를 제공함.

34. Kant was a strong defender of the rule of law as the ultimate guarantee, not only of security and peace, but also of freedom. He believed that human societies were moving towards more rational forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because only such frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to co-operate. However, his belief in inevitable progress was not based on an optimistic or high-minded view of human nature. On the contrary, it comes close to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent and conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in order to secure peace. We cannot count on people’s benevolence or goodwill, but even ‘a nation of devils’ can live in harmony in a legal system that binds every citizen equally. Ideally, the law is the embodiment of those political principles that all rational beings would freely choose. If such laws forbid them to do something that they would not rationally choose to do anyway, then the law cannot be .[3점]

*benevolence: 자비심

① regarded as reasonably confining human liberty

② viewed as a strong defender of the justice system

③ understood as a restraint on their freedom

④ enforced effectively to suppress their evil nature

⑤ accepted within the assumption of ideal legal frameworks

(정답) ③번

(풀이) 매력적인 오답 ①번을 피해야했고, 정확한 해석이 되지 않을 시, 상당히 판단에 어려움이 있었을 것으로 보인다.

39.

The difference is that the action in the game world can only be explored through the virtual bodily space of the avatar.

A video game has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space. ( ① ) The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only way in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived. ( ② ) As in the real world, perception requires action. ( ③ ) Players extend their perceptual field into the game, encompassing the available actions of the avatar. ( ④ ) The feedback loop of perception and action that enables you to navigate the world around you is now one step removed: instead of perceiving primarily through interaction of your own body with the external world, you’re perceiving the game world through interaction of the avatar. ( ⑤ ) The entire perceptual system has been extended into the game world. [3점]

*encompass: 둘러싸다

(정답) ③번

(풀이) 정답의 근거가 뚜렷하게 보이지 않는 측면이 있어, ③번과 ④번 사이에서 판단하는 데 상당히 시간이 많이 소요되었을 것으로 보인다.