2024년 10월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

I look ____ to hearing from you.

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

I figured he was going to tell me something ____

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

My heart was ____ with anticipation.

But when his next words hit my ears, everything ____

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

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

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

A car would be waiting tomorrow morning to take me ____

____ just like that, it was over.

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

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

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

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

Let's be realistic; ____ are inevitable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We reconstruct memories rather than retrieving the video ____ memory.

This is a ____ trait.

It's a more efficient way to store information ─ a bit like an ____ 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, and make connections ____ what they have learned.

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

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

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

Seeing is not ____

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

It's when people find themselves unable to explain why they ____ 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 ____ situation is the truest interpretation of what our mind is telling us.

That very ____ impression can also 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 ____ the superior performance of relatively unconscious first guesses compared to logical step-by-step justifications for a decision.

Many forms of research lead naturally ____ quantitative data.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AI and human consciousness will then ____ to evolve together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ the 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 from ____ is 10 percentage points larger than that of Australia and the U.K. combined.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Shakespearean metaphor "time is ____ beggar," the audience is 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) in the sense that they are realized in digital artifacts that are actively doing ____ forcefully changing a user's meaning horizon.

Technological creators cannot generally afford to require their potential audience to wonder ____ the metaphor 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 ____ the meaning of his works is not immediately obvious and requires some thought on the part of the audience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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