2023년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

I ____ your effort to select and exhibit diverse artwork.

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

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

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

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

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

I look forward to ____ reply to this inquiry.

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

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

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

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

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

As she ____ her doubts begin to fade.

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

‘Now, success is ____ exactly guaranteed,’ she thinks to herself, ‘but I’ll definitely get there.’

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

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

____ way you will do it.

Doing it from place of hatred will develop hatred towards ____ self and others around you; doing 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 fact that ____ 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 ____ expression don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

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

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

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

Say you’re pushing for a ____ water act.

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

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

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

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

Brands that fail to grow ____ 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 firm or, worse yet, appears ____ 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 advances in his or ____ industry.

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

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

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

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

A few ____ studies have helped to shed some light.

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

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

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 between ____ intake and volume of the cortex, the large outer layer of the brain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There ____ nothing wrong with that.

But if you do it ____ 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 very long.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human beings ____ certainty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our brains then generate sensations, thoughts, and ____ 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 ____ it is not clear that consistency is always a virtue and that one of the advantages of human judgment is the ability to detect change.

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

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

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

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