2023년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To whom it may concern, I would like ____ draw your attention to a problem that frequently occurs with the No. 35 buses.

There is a bus stop about halfway along Fenny Road, ____ which the No. 35 buses are supposed to stop.

It would appear, however, that some of your drivers are either unaware of this bus stop or for ____ reason choose to ignore it, driving past even though the buses are not full.

____ would be grateful if you could remind your drivers that this bus stop exists and that they should be prepared to stop at it.

I look ____ to seeing an improvement in this service soon.

My 10-year-old appeared, in ____ need of a quarter.

“A quarter? What on earth do you need a quarter ____

My tone bordered on ____

I didn’t want to be bothered with such ____ trivial demand.

“There’s a garage sale up the street, and there’s something I just gotta ____

It only ____ a quarter. Please?”

I placed a ____ in my son’s hand.

Moments later, a little voice ____ “Here, Mommy, this is for you.”

I glanced down at the hands of my little son and ____ a fourinch creamcolored statue of two small children hugging one another.

Inscribed at their feet were words that read It starts with ‘L’ ends with ‘E’ and in between are ‘O’ and ____

As ____ watched him race back to the garage sale, I smiled with a heart full of happiness.

That 25 cent garage sale ____ brought me a lot of joy.

Managers frequently try to play psychologist, to “figure ____ why an employee has acted in a certain way.

Empathizing with employees in ____ to understand their point of view can be very helpful.

However, when dealing with a problem ____ in particular, remember that it is not the person who is bad, but the actions exhibited on the job.

Avoid making suggestions to employees about personal traits they should change; instead suggest more acceptable ways of ____

For example, instead of focusing on a person’s ____ a manager might focus on the fact that the employee “has been late to work seven times this month.”

It is difficult for employees to change who they are; it ____ usually much easier for them to change how they act.

I suspect fungi are a little more ____ “thinking” than their larger partners.

Among trees, each species fights ____ species.

Let’s assume the ____ native to Central Europe could emerge victorious in most forests there.

Would this really be an ____

What ____ happen if a new pathogen came along that infected most of the beeches and killed them?

In that case, wouldn’t it be more advantageous if there were a certain number of other species around ― oaks, maples, or firs ― that would continue to grow and provide the shade needed for a new generation of young beeches to sprout ____ grow up?

Diversity provides security for ancient ____

Because fungi are also very dependent on stable conditions, they support other species underground and ____ them from complete collapse to ensure that one species of tree doesn’t manage to dominate.

____ remarkable that positive fantasies help us relax to such an extent that it shows up in physiological tests.

If you want ____ unwind, you can take some deep breaths, get a massage, or go for a walk ― but you can also try simply closing your eyes and fantasizing about some future outcome that you might enjoy.

But what about when your objective is to make your wish a ____

The ____ thing you want to be is relaxed.

You want to be energized enough to get off the couch and lose those pounds or find that job or study for that test, and you want to be ____ enough to stay engaged even when the inevitable obstacles or challenges arise.

The principle of “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” ____ not hold true, and now we know why: in dreaming it, you undercut the energy you need to do it.

You put yourself in a temporary state of complete ____ calmness ― and inactivity.

If cooking is as central to human identity, biology, and culture as the biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham suggests, it stands to reason that ____ decline of cooking in our time would have serious consequences for modern life, and so it has.

Are they all bad? Not at ____

The outsourcing of much of the work of cooking to corporations has relieved women of what has traditionally been their exclusive responsibility for feeding the family, making it easier for ____ to work outside the home and have careers.

____ has headed off many of the domestic conflicts that such a large shift in gender roles and family dynamics was bound to spark.

It has relieved other pressures in the ____ including longer workdays and overscheduled children, and saved us time that we can now invest in other pursuits.

It has also allowed us to diversify our diets substantially, making it possible even for ____ with no cooking skills and little money to enjoy a whole different cuisine.

All that’s required is a ____

As you may already know, what and ____ you buy can be political.

To whom do you want to give your ____

Which companies and corporations ____ you value and respect?

Be mindful about every purchase by carefully researching the corporations that are taking our money to decide if ____ deserve our support.

Do they have a record of polluting ____ environment, or do they have fairtrade practices and an endoflife plan for the products they make?

Are they ____ to bringing about good in the world?

For instance, my family ____ found a company producing recycled, plasticpackagingfree toilet paper with a social conscience.

They contribute 50 percent of their profits to the construction of ____ around the world, and we’re genuinely happy to spend our money on this special toilet paper each month.

Remember that the corporate world is built on consumers, so as a consumer you have the power to vote with your wallet and ____ companies to embrace healthier and more sustainable practices with every purchase you choose to make.

Camille Flammarion was born at ____ France.

He became interested in astronomy at an early age, and when he was only sixteen he wrote a book on ____ origin of the world.

The manuscript was not published ____ the time, but it came to the attention of Urbain Le Verrier, the director of the Paris Observatory.

He became an assistant to Le Verrier in 1858 and worked ____ a calculator.

At nineteen, he wrote ____ book called The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, in which he passionately claimed that life exists outside the planet Earth.

His most ____ work, Popular Astronomy, was published in 1880, and eventually sold 130,000 copies.

With his own funds, he built an observatory at Juvisy and spent May to ____ of each year there.

In ____ he founded the French Astronomical Society and served as editor of its monthly publication.

There ____ little doubt that we are driven by the sellby date.

Once an item is past that date it ____ into the waste stream, further increasing its carbon footprint.

Remember those items have already travelled hundreds of miles to reach the shelves ____ once they go into waste they start a new carbon mile journey.

But we all make our own judgement about sellby dates; those brought ____ during the Second World War are often scornful of the terrible waste they believe such caution encourages.

The manufacturer of the food has a view when making or growing something ____ by the time the product reaches the shelves it has already been travelling for so many days and possibly many miles.

The manufacturer then decides that a product can reasonably be consumed within say ____ days and 90 days minus so many days for travelling gives the sellby date.

But whether it ____ toxic is something each individual can decide.

It ____ seem to make sense not to buy large packs of perishable goods but nonperishable items may become costeffective.

The “jolt” ____ caffeine does wear off.

Caffeine is removed from your system ____ an enzyme within your liver, which gradually degrades it over time.

Based in large part on genetics, some people ____ a more efficient version of the enzyme that degrades caffeine, allowing the liver to rapidly clear it from the bloodstream.

These rare individuals can ____ an espresso with dinner and fall fast asleep at midnight without a problem.

Others, however, ____ a sloweracting version of the enzyme.

It takes far longer for their system to eliminate the same amount of ____

As a result, they are very sensitive to caffeine’s ____

One cup of tea or coffee in the morning ____ last much of the day, and should they have a second cup, even early in the afternoon, they will find it difficult to fall asleep in the evening.

Aging also alters the speed of caffeine clearance: the older we are, the ____ it takes our brain and body to remove caffeine, and thus the more sensitive we become in later life to caffeine’s sleepdisrupting influence.