2023년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many thanks for your ____

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

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

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

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

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

Without hesitation, she ____ open the envelope.

She pulled out the paper and ____ it.

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

We ____ like to invite you to our internship program.

We look forward to ____ you soon.’

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

She couldn’t wait to tell this news to her ____

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

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

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

New technologies have ____ social 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 ____ on employment patterns.

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

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

Certainly, we still have regional specialties, but the Carolina barbecue will almost certainly have California tomatoes in its sauce, and the Louisiana ____ is 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 ____ either to discern or resist the 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 our bookstores and bellies, one after another, at the scale of the ____ best seller.

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

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

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

The emotional messages people send and respond to while interacting are, at this ____ 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 managing emotions ____ remain one type of intelligence that puzzles AI.

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

In a survey, almost three out of four executives see EI as a “musthave” skill for the workplace in the future ____ 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 practitioners in different fields may share their experience of the process of innovation and discover links between their ____ activities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But it was only in the eighteenth century that any attempt was ____ 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 his way ____ speaking to us.

Alvin Toffler estimated that Shakespeare would probably only understand about 250,000 of the 450,000 words in ____ 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 of every nine words ____ our vocabulary.

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

At 16, he went to Cambridge University, where he ____ widely and lectured on topics from Greek to mathematics, before joining the priesthood in 1660.

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

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

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

He ____ his later years studying samples in order to assemble plant and animal 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 of participants’ verbal ____ of their behavior.

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

____ methods can be quite useful.

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

____ selfreports can be plagued by several kinds of distortion.

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

Subjects who are influenced by this bias work overtime trying ____ 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 a charity when in fact it ____ possible to determine that they did not.

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

Nontariff trade measures, such as quotas, ____ and restrictions on exports, are increasingly prevalent and may be enacted for policy reasons having nothing to do 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 ____ rich nations give to their farmers make it very difficult for farmers in the rest of the world to compete with them.

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

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