2023년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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.

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

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

My ____ appeared, in desperate need of a quarter.

“A quarter? What on ____ do you need a quarter for?”

My tone bordered ____ irritation.

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

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

____ only costs a quarter. Please?”

I placed ____ quarter in my son’s hand.

Moments later, a little voice said, “Here, Mommy, this is for ____

I glanced down at ____ hands of my little son and saw 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 I watched him race back to the garage sale, I smiled ____ a heart full of happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Among trees, each species ____ other species.

____ assume the beeches native to Central Europe could emerge victorious in most forests there.

____ this really be an advantage?

What would happen if ____ 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 ― ____ would continue to grow and provide the shade needed for a new generation of young beeches to sprout and grow up?

____ provides security for ancient forests.

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

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

If you want to unwind, you ____ 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 motivated enough to stay engaged even when the inevitable obstacles or challenges ____

The principle of “Dream it. Wish it. Do ____ does 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 ____ state of complete happiness, 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 the ____ 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 ____ women of what has traditionally been their exclusive responsibility for feeding the family, making it easier for them to work outside the home and have careers.

It has headed off ____ 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 household, including longer workdays and overscheduled ____ 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 people with no cooking skills ____ little money to enjoy a whole different cuisine.

____ that’s required is a microwave.

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

To whom ____ you want to give your money?

Which ____ and corporations do you value and respect?

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

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

Are they committed to bringing ____ good in the world?

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

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

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

Camille ____ was born at MontignyleRoi, France.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1887, he founded the French Astronomical Society and served as editor ____ its monthly publication.

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

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

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

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

The manufacturer of ____ food has a view when making or growing something that 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 ____ reasonably be consumed within say 90 days and 90 days minus so many days for travelling gives the sellby date.

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

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

The ____ of caffeine does wear off.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One cup of tea or coffee in the morning will 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 ____

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