2023년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

There is a bus ____ about halfway along Fenny Road, at 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.

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

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

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

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

My ____ bordered on irritation.

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

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

It ____ costs a quarter. Please?”

I placed a quarter in my son’s ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For ____, instead of focusing on a person’s “unreliability,” 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 is usually much easier for them to ____ how they act.

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

____ trees, each species fights other species.

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

Would this really be an ____?

What would happen if a new ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ species 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 ____ to such an extent that it shows up in physiological tests.

If you want to ____, 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 ____ about when your objective is to make your wish a reality?

The last thing you ____ to be is relaxed.

You want to be energized enough to get off the ____ 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 arise.

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

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

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

Are they all ____? Not at all.

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

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

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

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

All that’s ____ is a microwave.

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

To whom do you want to give your ____?

____ companies and corporations do you value and respect?

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

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

Are they committed to bringing about ____ in the world?

For instance, my family has found a company producing recycled, ____ 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 toilet paper ____ month.

____ that the 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 Flammarion was ____ at MontignyleRoi, France.

He became interested in ____ at an early age, and 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 ____ of Urbain Le Verrier, the director of the Paris Observatory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The manufacturer of the food has a view ____ 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 can reasonably be ____ within say 90 days and 90 days minus so many days for travelling gives the sellby date.

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

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

The “jolt” of caffeine ____ wear off.

Caffeine is removed from your system by an ____ 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 ____ can drink an espresso with dinner and fall fast asleep at midnight without a problem.

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

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

As a result, they are ____ 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 ____ find it difficult to fall asleep in the evening.

Aging 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 ____ we become in later life to caffeine’s sleepdisrupting influence.