2023년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many ____ for your cooperation.

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

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

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

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

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

Without ____ she tore open the envelope.

She ____ out the paper and unfolded it.

The letter said, ____ you for applying to our company.

We would like ____ invite you to our internship program.

We ____ forward to seeing you soon.’

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

She ____ wait to tell this news to her family.

The introduction of new technologies clearly has both positive and negative impacts ____ 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.

____ technologies have profound social impacts as well.

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

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

North America’s native cuisine met the same unfortunate fate ____ 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 ____ gumbo is just as likely to contain Indonesian farmed shrimp.

If either of these shows up on a fastfood ____ with lots of added fats or HFCS, we seem unable 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 ____ sensibly consuming what our land and climate give us.

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

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

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

As AI gains momentum ____ 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 point, far beyond the ability of AI programs ____ mimic.

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

This means people ____ jobs involving 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 as the automatizing of routine tasks bumps up against the impossibility of creating effective AI for ____ that require emotional skill.

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

Tools for thinking stem ____ 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 creative activities.

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

If they practice abstracting in writing ____ if they work on abstracting in 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 ____ to transform their thoughts from one mode of conception and expression to another.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ methods can be quite useful.

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

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

____ of the most 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 to ____ 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 ____ a charity when in fact it is possible to determine that they did not.

Over the past several decades, there have been some agreements to reduce the debt of poor nations, ____ 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 ____ nothing to do with trade.

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

For example, the huge subsidies that rich nations ____ 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, which, though not specifically targeting imports, could impose significant costs on foreign manufacturers seeking to ____ to the importer’s market.

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