2023년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

I appreciate your effort ____ select and exhibit 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 gallery’s ____

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

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

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

____ look forward to your 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 ____ feeling that something is missing.

As she sets out cups, spoons, and plates, ____ doubts grow.

She looks around, trying to imagine what else she could ____ to make the cafe perfect, but nothing comes 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 ____ be a success.

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

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

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

Either way you will do ____

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

If you decide to ____ the fact 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 ____ don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

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

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

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

____ you’re pushing for a clean water act.

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

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

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

But in almost every case, ____ 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 firm ____ 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 advances in his or her ____

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

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

Those who were resistant many times found few opportunities ____ 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 ____ could there possibly be for our brains?

A few large studies have helped ____ shed some light.

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

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

In ____ study, 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 mangoes, bananas, and pineapples) may cause metabolic and cognitive problems as much as processed carbs ____

Winning turns on a ____ awareness that others are watching.

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

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

But as soon as you start to win, and others ____ to notice, 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 ____ a leader that others can respect.

There is ____ wrong 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 ____ that position very long.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Later critics appreciated her ____ 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 like ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our brains then generate sensations, thoughts, and action plans to ____ 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 ____ clear that consistency is always a virtue and that one of the advantages of human judgment is the ability to detect change.

Thus, in changing environments, it might be advantageous to combine human judgment ____ 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 taken by competitors ____ the introduction of new products.

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

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