2023년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My tone ____ on irritation.

I ____ want to be bothered with such 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 a quarter in ____ son’s hand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Among trees, each species fights ____ species.

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

____ this really be an advantage?

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

In that case, wouldn’t it be more advantageous if there were a certain ____ 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 and grow up?

Diversity provides ____ for ancient forests.

Because fungi are also very dependent on stable conditions, they support other species underground and protect them from complete collapse to ensure that one species of tree ____ manage to dominate.

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

If you want to 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 ____ to make your wish a reality?

The last thing you want to ____ 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.” does not hold true, and now we know why: in dreaming it, you ____ the energy you need to do it.

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

If cooking is as central to human identity, biology, and culture as the biological anthropologist ____ 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 ____ bad? Not at all.

The outsourcing of much of the work of cooking to corporations has relieved women of what has traditionally been ____ exclusive responsibility 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 ____ was bound to spark.

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

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

All that’s required ____ a microwave.

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

To ____ do you want to give your money?

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

Are ____ committed to bringing about good in the world?

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

They contribute 50 percent of their profits to the construction of toilets around the ____ 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 encourage companies to embrace healthier and more sustainable practices with every purchase you choose to ____

Camille Flammarion was born at ____ France.

He became ____ in astronomy 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 ____ Le Verrier in 1858 and worked as a calculator.

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

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

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

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

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

Once an item is past that date it goes into ____ waste stream, 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 mile ____

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

The ____ of the 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 can reasonably be consumed within say 90 days and 90 days minus so many days for ____ gives the sellby date.

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

It would seem to make sense ____ to buy large packs of perishable goods but nonperishable items may become costeffective.

The “jolt” of ____ does wear off.

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

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

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

Others, however, have a sloweracting version of the ____

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 ____ afternoon, they will find it difficult to fall asleep in the evening.

Aging also alters ____ 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.