2023년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

I appreciate your effort to ____ and exhibit diverse artwork.

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

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

I’m especially interested in ____ the painting 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 ____ this wonderful piece of art.

I ____ forward to your reply to this inquiry.

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

She looks around the cafe, but she can’t shake off the ____ that something 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 ____ 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 ____, which is beautifully done, she is certain that the cafe will be a success.

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

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

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

Either ____ 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 ____ will create compassion towards the self and allow for opportunities to find a more suitable way of accomplishing the task.

If ____ decide to accept 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 expression don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the ____.

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

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

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

Say you’re pushing for a ____ water act.

____ if what 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.

____ what counts, that they will be safer because of your idea and your effort.

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

But in almost every case, helping move the needle forward is vastly better than not ____ 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 ____ with the firm 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 ____ 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 first wave of executive leadership ____ to the technology.

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

Those who were resistant many ____ found 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 could there possibly be for our ____?

A few large studies ____ helped to shed some light.

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

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

In this study, ____, 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 ____ problems as much as processed carbs do.

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

It’s a ____ easier to move under the radar when 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 notice, you’re suddenly aware that you’re being ____.

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

There is ____ wrong with that.

But if ____ 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 very long.

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

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

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

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

She cleared out a chicken ____ and converted 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 ____, fitting them in theatrical costumes and carefully composing them into scenes.

Criticized for her so‑called bad technique by art critics in her own time, she ignored ____ 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 of the artistic possibilities of the ____.

____ beings like certainty.

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

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

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

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

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

And if I’m uncertain, my brain will send ____ a danger alert to protect 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 ____ labeling new, vague, or unpredictable everyday events and experiences as uncertain.

Our brains then generate sensations, ____, 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 ____ of the advantages of human judgment is the ability to detect change.

Thus, in changing environments, it might be ____ 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 a composite forecast by averaging these judgments with the forecasts of statistical models ____ on past data.

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

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

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