2023년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

I appreciate your effort to select and exhibit ____ artwork.

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

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

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

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

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

I look forward to your ____ to this inquiry.

____ opening day, Isabel 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 out cups, spoons, and ____ Isabel’s doubts grow.

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

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

As she paints, her doubts ____ to fade.

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

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

The more people have to do unwanted things the more chances are ____ they create unpleasant 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 accepting that it needs ____ be done.

____ way you will do it.

Doing it from place of hatred will develop hatred towards the self and others around you; doing it from the place of acceptance will ____ 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 your task has to be done, start from ____ 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 perfect become the enemy ____ 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 have to be ____ to alter your idea and let others influence its outcome.

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

Say you’re pushing for a clean ____ act.

Even if ____ emerges isn’t as well‑funded as you wished, or doesn’t match how you originally 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 of your idea and your ____

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

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

Brands that fail to grow and ____ 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 ____ appears to have hit a plateau in his or her career.

Assuming he or ____ 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 industry.

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

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

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

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

A few large studies have helped to ____ 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 ____ display the benefits associated with a healthy diet.

In this study, however, the researchers ____ 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 ____ a similar inverse relationship between 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 ____ as processed carbs do.

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

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

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

But as soon as you start ____ win, and others start 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 ____ citizen and a leader that others can 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 ____ in that position very long.

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

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

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

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

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

Cameron made illustrative studio photographs, convincing ____ 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 ____ 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 expressions ____ the artistic possibilities of the medium.

Human beings ____ 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 ____ keep away from them, and remain alive afterward.

In fact, we learned that the more certain we ____ about something, the better chance we had of 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 ____ eat it because I know it’s safe.

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

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

This is achieved by our brains labeling new, vague, ____ unpredictable everyday events 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 not clear that consistency is always a virtue ____ that one of the advantages of human judgment is the ability to detect change.

Thus, ____ changing 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 ____ creating a composite forecast by averaging these judgments with the forecasts of statistical models based on past data.

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

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

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