2023년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

It was a pleasure ____ you at your gallery last week.

I appreciate your effort to select and ____ diverse artwork.

As I mentioned, I greatly admire Robert D. ____ paintings, which emphasize the beauty of nature.

Over the past few days, I have been researching and learning about Robert D. Parker’s online viewing room through your ____ website.

I’m especially interested in purchasing the ____ that depicts the horizon, titled Sunrise.

I would ____ to know if the piece is still available for purchase.

It would be a great pleasure to house this wonderful ____ of art.

I look ____ to your reply to this inquiry.

On opening day, Isabel arrives at the cafe very ____ with nervous anticipation.

She looks around the cafe, but she can’t shake off the feeling that ____ is missing.

As she sets out cups, ____, and plates, Isabel’s doubts grow.

She looks around, trying to imagine what else she could do to make the cafe perfect, but nothing ____ to mind.

Then, in a ____ burst of inspiration, Isabel grabs her paintbrush and transforms the blank walls into landscapes, adding flowers and trees.

As she ____, her doubts begin to fade.

Looking at her handiwork, which is beautifully done, she is certain that the cafe will be a ____.

‘Now, ____ is not exactly guaranteed,’ she thinks to herself, ‘but I’ll definitely get there.’

The more people have to do unwanted things the more chances are that they create ____ environment for themselves and others.

If you hate the thing you do but have to do it nonetheless, you have choice between hating the thing and ____ that it needs to be done.

____ way you will do it.

Doing it from place of hatred will develop hatred towards the self and others around you; ____ it from the place of acceptance will create compassion towards the self and allow for opportunities to find a more suitable way of accomplishing the task.

If you decide to accept the ____ that your task has to be done, start from recognising that your situation is a gift from life; this will help you to see it as a lesson in acceptance.

Everyone’s heard the expression don’t let the ____ become the enemy of the good.

If you want to get over an obstacle so that your idea can become the solution‑based policy you’ve ____ dreamed of, you can’t have an all‑or‑nothing mentality.

You ____ to be willing to alter your idea and let others influence its outcome.

You have to be okay with the outcome being a little different, even a little less, than ____ wanted.

Say ____ pushing for a clean water act.

Even if what emerges isn’t as well‑funded as you wished, or doesn’t match how you originally conceived the ____, you’ll have still succeeded in ensuring that kids in troubled areas have access to clean water.

That’s what ____, that they will be safer because of your idea and your effort.

Is it perfect? No. Is there ____ work to be done? Absolutely.

But in almost ____ case, helping move the needle forward is vastly better than not helping at all.

Brands that ____ to grow and develop lose their relevance.

Think about the person you knew who was once on the fast track at your company, who is either no longer with the ____ or, worse yet, appears to have hit a plateau in his or her career.

Assuming he or she did not make an ambitious move, more often than not, this individual is a victim of having failed to stay relevant and embrace the ____ in his or her industry.

Think about the ____ personal computing technology had on the first wave of executive leadership exposed to the technology.

Those who ____ the technology were able to integrate it into their work styles and excel.

Those who were resistant many times ____ few opportunities to advance their careers and in many cases were ultimately let go through early retirement for failure to stay relevant and update their skills.

What consequences of eating too many grapes and other sweet fruit ____ there possibly be for our brains?

A few large studies ____ helped to shed some light.

In one, higher fruit intake in older, cognitively healthy adults was linked with less volume in the ____.

This finding was unusual, since people who eat more fruit usually display the benefits associated with a healthy ____.

In this ____, however, the researchers isolated various components of the subjects’ diets and found that fruit didn’t seem to be doing their memory centers any favors.

Another study from the Mayo Clinic saw a similar inverse relationship ____ fruit intake and volume of the cortex, the large outer layer of the brain.

Researchers in the latter study noted that excessive consumption of high‑sugar fruit (such as ____, bananas, and pineapples) may cause metabolic and cognitive problems as much as processed carbs do.

Winning ____ on a self‑conscious awareness that others are watching.

It’s a lot easier to move under the radar ____ no one knows you and no one is paying attention.

You can mess up and be ____ and get dirty because no one even knows you’re there.

But as soon as you start to win, and others start to ____, you’re suddenly aware that you’re being observed.

You’re being judged. You worry that others will discover your flaws and weaknesses, and you start hiding your true personality, so you can be a good role model and good citizen and a leader that others ____ respect.

There is nothing ____ with that.

But if you do it at the expense of being who you really are, making decisions that please others instead of pleasing yourself, you’re not going to be in that position ____ long.

When you start apologizing for who you are, you ____ growing and you stop winning. Permanently.

British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is considered one of the ____ portrait photographers of the 19th century.

Born in Calcutta, India, into a British family, Cameron was educated in ____.

Given a ____ as a gift by her daughter in December 1863, she quickly and energetically devoted herself to the art of photography.

She cleared out a chicken coop and converted it into studio space where she began to ____ as a photographer.

Cameron made illustrative studio photographs, convincing friends and family ____ to pose for photographs, fitting them in theatrical costumes and carefully composing them into scenes.

____ for her so‑called bad technique by art critics in her own time, she ignored convention and experimented with composition and focus.

Later critics appreciated her valuing of spiritual depth over technical perfection and now consider her portraits to be among the finest ____ of the artistic possibilities of the medium.

Human ____ like certainty.

This liking stems from our ancient ancestors who needed to survive ____ saber‑toothed tigers and poisonous berries.

Our brains evolved to help us attend to threats, keep away ____ them, and remain alive afterward.

In fact, we learned that the ____ certain we were about something, the better chance we had of making the right choice.

Is this ____ the same shape as last time? The same size?

If I know for certain it is, my brain will direct me to eat it because I know it’s ____.

And if I’m uncertain, my brain will send out a danger alert to ____ me.

The dependence on certainty all those millennia ago ensured our survival to the ____ day, and the danger‑alert system continues to protect us.

This is achieved by our brains labeling ____, vague, or unpredictable everyday events and experiences as uncertain.

Our brains then generate ____, thoughts, and action plans to keep us safe from the uncertain element, and we live to see another day.

Robert Blattberg and Steven Hoch noted that, in a changing environment, it is not clear that consistency is always a virtue and that one of the advantages of ____ judgment is the ability to detect change.

Thus, in changing environments, it might be advantageous to combine human ____ and statistical models.

Blattberg and Hoch examined this possibility by having supermarket managers forecast demand for certain products and then creating a composite forecast by averaging these judgments with the forecasts of statistical models based on ____ data.

The logic was that statistical models assume stable conditions and therefore cannot account for the effects on demand of novel events such as actions taken by competitors or the introduction of ____ products.

Humans, however, ____ incorporate these novel factors in their judgments.

The composite,─or average of ____ judgments and statistical models, ─proved to be more accurate than either the statistical models or the managers working alone.