2023년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Dear ____ Regular attendance at school is essential in maximizing student potential.

Recently, we’ve become concerned ____ the number of unapproved absences across all grades.

I ____ like to further clarify that your role as a parent is to approve any school absence.

Parents must provide an explanation ____ absences to the school within 7 days from the first day of any period of absence.

Where an explanation has not been received within the 7day time ____ the school will record the absence as unjustified on the student’s record.

Please ensure that you ____ to the parent portal site and register the reason any time your child is absent.

Please approve all absences, so that your child will not ____ at a disadvantage.

Many thanks for ____ cooperation.

Ester stood up as soon as she heard the hum of a hover ____ outside.

“Mail,” she shouted and ran down the third set of ____ and swung open the door.

It was pouring now, but she ____ out into the rain.

She ____ facing the mailbox. There was a single, unopened letter inside.

She ____ sure this must be what she was eagerly waiting for.

Without hesitation, she ____ open the envelope.

She ____ out the paper and unfolded it.

The letter said, ‘Thank you for applying to ____ company.

We would ____ to invite you to our internship program.

We look forward to seeing ____ soon.’

She jumped up and down and looked down at ____ letter again.

She couldn’t wait to tell this ____ to her family.

The ____ of new technologies clearly has both positive and negative impacts for sustainable development.

Good management of technological ____ needs to take them fully into account.

Technological developments in sectors such as nuclear energy and agriculture provide examples of how not only environmental benefits but also risks to ____ environment or human health can accompany technological advances.

New technologies have profound ____ impacts as well.

Since the industrial revolution, technological advances have changed the nature of skills needed in workplaces, creating certain types of jobs and destroying others, with impacts on ____ patterns.

New ____ need to be assessed for their full potential impacts, both positive and negative.

____ America’s native cuisine met the same unfortunate fate as its native people, save for a few relics like the Thanksgiving turkey.

Certainly, we still have regional specialties, but the Carolina barbecue will almost certainly have California tomatoes in its sauce, and the Louisiana gumbo ____ just as likely to contain Indonesian farmed shrimp.

If either of these shows up on a fastfood menu with lots of added fats or HFCS, we seem unable either to discern or resist ____ corruption.

We have yet to come up with a strong set of generalized norms, passed down through families, for savoring and sensibly consuming what our land ____ climate give us.

We have, instead, a string of fad diets convulsing ____ bookstores and bellies, one after another, at the scale of the national best seller.

Nine out of ten nutritionists view this as evidence that we have entirely lost ____ marbles.

Perhaps, the advent of ____ Intelligence (AI) in the workplace may bode well for Emotional Intelligence (EI).

As AI gains momentum and replaces people in jobs at every level, predictions are, there ____ be a premium placed on people who have high ability in EI.

The emotional messages people send and respond to while interacting are, ____ this point, far beyond the ability of AI programs to mimic.

As we get further into the age of the smart machine, it is likely that sensing and ____ emotions will remain one type of intelligence that puzzles AI.

This means people and jobs involving ____ are safe from being taken over by machines.

In a survey, almost three ____ of four executives see EI as a “musthave” skill for the workplace in the future as the automatizing of routine tasks bumps up against the impossibility of creating effective AI for activities that require emotional skill.

Education must focus on the trunk of the tree of knowledge, revealing the ____ in which the branches, twigs, and leaves all emerge from a common core.

Tools for thinking stem from this core, providing a common language with which ____ in different fields may share their experience of the process of innovation and discover links between their creative activities.

When the same terms ____ employed across the curriculum, students begin to link different subjects and classes.

If they practice abstracting in writing class, if they work on abstracting in painting or drawing class, and if, in all cases, they call it abstracting, they begin ____ understand how to think beyond disciplinary boundaries.

They see how to transform their thoughts from one mode of conception and expression ____ another.

Linking the disciplines comes naturally when the terms and tools ____ presented as part of a universal imagination.

New words and expressions emerge continually in response to new ____ ideas and feelings.

The ____ English Dictionary publishes supplements of new words and expressions that have entered the language.

Some people deplore this kind of thing and see it as a drift from ____ English.

But it was only in ____ eighteenth century that any attempt was made to formalize spelling and punctuation of English at all.

The language we speak in the twenty-first century would be virtually unintelligible to Shakespeare, and so would ____ way of speaking to us.

Alvin Toffler estimated that ____ would probably only understand about 250,000 of the 450,000 words in general use in the English language now.

In other words, so to speak, if Shakespeare were to materialize in London today he would understand, on average, only five out ____ every nine words in our vocabulary.

Born in 1627 in Black Notley, Essex, ____ John Ray was the son of the village blacksmith.

At 16, he went to Cambridge University, where he studied widely and lectured on topics from Greek to mathematics, before joining the priesthood in ____

____ recover from an illness in 1650, he had taken to nature walks and developed an interest in botany.

Accompanied by his wealthy student and supporter Francis Willughby, ____ toured Britain and Europe in the 1660s, studying and collecting plants and animals.

He ____ Margaret Oakley in 1673 and, after leaving Willughby’s household, lived quietly in Black Notley to the age of 77.

He spent his later years studying samples in order to assemble plant and ____ catalogues.

He wrote more than twenty works on theology and ____ travels, as well as on plants and their form and function.

Research psychologists often work with selfreport data, made up ____ participants’ verbal accounts of their behavior.

This is the case whenever questionnaires, interviews, or personality inventories are used to measure ____

Selfreport methods can be quite ____

They take advantage of the fact that ____ have a unique opportunity to observe themselves fulltime.

However, selfreports can be ____ by several kinds of distortion.

One of the most problematic of these distortions is the social desirability bias, which is ____ tendency to give socially approved answers to questions about oneself.

Subjects ____ are influenced by this bias work overtime trying to create a favorable impression, especially when subjects are asked about sensitive issues.

For example, many survey respondents will report that they voted in an election or gave to ____ charity when in fact it is possible to determine that they did not.

Over the past several decades, there have ____ some agreements to reduce the debt of poor nations, but other economic challenges (like trade barriers) remain.

Nontariff trade measures, such as quotas, subsidies, and restrictions on exports, are increasingly prevalent and may be enacted for policy reasons having nothing to ____ with trade.

However, they have a discriminatory effect on exports from countries ____ lack the resources to comply with requirements of nontariff measures imposed by rich nations.

For example, the huge subsidies that rich nations give to their farmers make it very difficult for farmers in the rest of the world ____ compete with them.

Another example would be domestic health or safety regulations, which, though not specifically targeting imports, could impose ____ costs on foreign manufacturers seeking to conform to the importer’s market.

Industries in developing markets may ____ more difficulty absorbing these additional costs.