2024년 10월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To the State Education Department, I am writing with regard to the state's funding for the construction project ____ Fort Montgomery High School.

Our school needs additional spaces to ____ a fully functional Art and Library Media Center to serve our students in a more meaningful way.

Despite submitting all required documentation for funding ____ your department in April 2024, we have not yet received any notification from your department.

A delay in the process can carry considerable consequences related to ____ school's budgetary constraints and schedule.

Therefore, ____ order to proceed with our project, we request you notify us of the review result regarding the submitted documentation.

____ look forward to hearing from you.

As I ____ outside the locker room after a hard‐fought basketball game, the coach called out to me, "David, walk with me."

I ____ he was going to tell me something important.

He was going to select me to be the captain of the team, the leader I had ____ wanted to be.

____ heart was racing with anticipation.

But when his next words hit my ears, ____ changed.

____ going to have to send you home," he said coldly.

"I don't ____ you are going to make it." I couldn't believe his decision.

I tried to hold it together, but ____ I was falling apart.

A car ____ be waiting tomorrow morning to take me home.

And just like that, it ____ over.

For many of us, making time for exercise is a ____ challenge.

Between work commitments and family obligations, it often feels like there's no room in ____ packed schedules for a dedicated workout.

But what if the workout came to you, right in the midst of ____ daily routine?

That's ____ the beauty of integrating mini-exercises into household chores comes into play.

Let's ____ realistic; chores are inevitable.

Whether ____ washing dishes or taking out the trash, these tasks are an essential part of daily life.

But rather than viewing chores as purely obligatory activities, ____ not seize these moments as opportunities for physical activity?

For instance, practice squats or engage in ____ wall push-ups as you wait for your morning kettle to boil.

____ quick exercises into your daily chores can improve your health.

When we see ____ we naturally and automatically break it up into shapes, colors, and concepts that we have learned through education.

We recode what we see through the lens of ____ we know.

We reconstruct memories ____ than retrieving the video from memory.

This is ____ useful trait.

It's ____ more efficient way to store information ─ a bit like an optimal image compression algorithm such as JPG, rather than storing a raw bitmap image file.

People who lack this ability and remember everything in perfect detail struggle to generalize, learn, ____ make connections between what they have learned.

But representing the world as abstract ideas and features ____ at a cost of seeing the world as it is.

Instead, we see the world through ____ assumptions, motivations, and past experiences.

The discovery that our memories are reconstructed through abstract representations rather than played back like a movie completely ____ the legal primacy of eyewitness testimony.

____ is not believing.

In his Cornell laboratory, David Dunning conducted experimental tests of eyewitness testimony and found evidence that a careful deliberation of ____ features and a detailed discussion of selection procedures can actually be a sign of an inaccurate identification.

It's when people find ____ unable to explain why they recognize the person, saying things like "his face just popped out at me," that they tend to be accurate more often.

Sometimes our first, immediate, automatic reaction to a situation is the truest interpretation of ____ our mind is telling us.

That very first impression can ____ be more accurate about the world than the deliberative, reasoned self-narrative can be.

In his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell describes a variety of studies in psychology and behavioral economics that demonstrate the superior performance of relatively unconscious first guesses ____ to logical step-by-step justifications for a decision.

Many forms of research lead ____ to quantitative data.

A study ____ happiness might measure the number of times someone smiles during an interaction, and a study of memory might measure the number of items an individual can recall after one, five, and ten minutes.

Asking people how many times in a year they are sad will also yield quantitative ____ but it might not be reliable.

Respondents' recollections may be inaccurate, and their definitions of 'sad' could vary ____

But ____ "How many times in the past year were you sad enough to call in sick to work?" prompts a concrete answer.

Similarly, instead of asking people to rate how bad a procrastinator they are, ask, "How many of your utility bills are you ____ late in paying, even though you can afford to pay them?"

Questions that seek concrete responses help make abstract concepts clearer and ensure consistency ____ one study to the next.

The evolution of AI ____ often associated with the concept of singularity.

Singularity refers to the point at which AI ____ human intelligence.

After that point, it is predicted that AI will ____ improve itself and evolve at an accelerated pace.

When AI becomes self-aware and pursues its own goals, it will be a conscious being, not just a ____

____ and human consciousness will then begin to evolve together.

Our consciousness will evolve to new dimensions through our interactions with AI, which will provide us with intellectual stimulation and inspire new insights and ____

Conversely, our consciousness also has a significant ____ on the evolution of AI.

The direction of AI's evolution will depend greatly on what values and ____ we incorporate into AI.

We need to see our relationship with AI as a mutual coexistence of conscious beings, recognizing its ____ and supporting the evolution of its consciousness.

The above graph shows the electricity generation from fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewables ____ four countries in 2023.

Australia's electricity generation only comes from fossil fuels and renewables, and the percentage of fossil fuels is more than ____ that of renewables.

In terms of electricity generation from nuclear energy, the U.S. shows the highest ____ among all four countries.

The percentage of electricity generation from fossil fuels in the U.S. is higher than that in the U.K., which is also ____ for renewables.

In ____ U.K., the percentage of electricity generated from nuclear energy is less than a third of that generated from renewables.

Brazil's percentage of electricity generated ____ renewables is 10 percentage points larger than that of Australia and the U.K. combined.

Douglas Kirkland, known for his highly artistic portraits of Hollywood celebrities, was born in ____ Canada.

When he was young, he eagerly awaited the weekly arrival of Life magazine and discussed the photographs ____ magazine contained with his father.

Believing that he would have better career prospects, Kirkland moved to the United States after graduating from high school and found work at a ____ studio.

When Look magazine hired him at ____ 24, he became their second-youngest photographer ever.

His photos ____ of Marilyn Monroe in 1961 became iconic almost instantly.

Kirkland spent his weeks shooting day-to-day life across the United ____ and his weekends in exotic locations.

His photo essays could run ____ to a dozen pages and were seen by more than half of all Americans.

____ technologies are essentially related to metaphors, but digital metaphors are different from linguistic ones in important ways.

Linguistic metaphors are passive, in the sense that the audience needs to choose to actively enter the ____ proposed by metaphor.

In the Shakespearean metaphor "time is a beggar," the audience ____ unlikely to understand the metaphor without cognitive effort and without further engaging Shakespeare's prose.

Technological metaphors, on the other hand, are active (and often imposing) ____ the sense that they are realized in digital artifacts that are actively doing things, forcefully changing a user's meaning horizon.

Technological creators cannot generally afford to require their potential audience to wonder how the ____ works; normally the selling point is that the usefulness of the technology is obvious at first glance.

Shakespeare, on the other hand, is beloved in part because the meaning of his works is not immediately obvious and requires ____ thought on the part of the audience.

Herbert Simon won his Nobel Prize for recognizing our limitations in information, time, and cognitive ____

As we lack the resources to compute answers independently, we distribute the computation ____ the population and solve the answer slowly, generation by generation.

____ all we have to do is socially learn the right answers.

You don't need to understand how your computer or toilet works; you just need to be able to use the ____ and flush.

All that needs to be transmitted is which button to push ____ essentially how to interact with technologies rather than how they work.

And so instead of holding more information than we ____ mental capacity for and indeed need to know, we could dedicate our large brains to a small piece of a giant calculation.

We understand things well enough to benefit from them, ____ all the while we are making small calculations that contribute to a larger whole.

We are just doing our part in a larger computation for our societies' ____ brains.