2024년 10월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Dear Executive Manager Schulz, It is a week ____ the internship program starts.

I am writing to bring your attention to a matter that requires immediate consideration regarding the ____ my department has.

As the coordinator, it is becoming apparent to me that the budget, previously approved by your ____, needs some adjustments in order to meet the emerging modifications.

Since my department has hired three ____ interns than planned initially, the most expensive need is for additional funding to cover their wages, training costs, and materials.

I kindly request an additional ____ allocation for these expenses.

Please ____ to the attachment for details.

____ you for your attention.

____ approached the hotel front desk to check-in but an unexpected event unfolded.

The receptionist couldn't find her ____ under the name 'Katie'.

"I'm sorry, but I can't seem to locate a reservation under that name," the ____ said.

"No way, I definitely made a reservation on the phone," ____ said, puzzled.

The receptionist asked, "Can you tell me your ____ number?" and Katie told it to him, thinking 'What happened? Did I make a mistake?'

"____ a moment," the receptionist said, typing deliberately on the keyboard.

"I found it! It ____ there was a small misspelling. Your reservation is under 'K-A-T-Y'," the receptionist explained.

With a ____ of ease, Katie watched her reservation appearing on the screen.

With her ____ slowing to a gentle rhythm, she proceeded with her check-in, thinking that a simple misspelling might have ruined her plans.

To be mathematically literate means to be able to think critically about societal issues on which ____ has bearing so as to make informed decisions about how to solve these problems.

Dealing with such complex problems through interdisciplinary approaches, mirroring real-world problems requires ____ ways of planning and organizing mathematical teaching methods.

Navigating our world means ____ able to quantify, measure, estimate, classify, compare, find patterns, conjecture, justify, prove, and generalize within critical thinking and when using critical thinking.

Therefore, making decisions, even qualitatively, is ____ possible without using mathematics and critical thinking.

Thus, teaching ____ should be done in interaction with critical thinking along with a decision-making process.

They can be developed into the mathematical context, so that there is no excuse to not explicitly support students to develop ____.

Imagine that your usually stingy friend ____ in buying you a Christmas present after taking a generosity booster.

How would you feel? ____, there is something praiseworthy about the action.

____ be pleased to receive the gift.

You'd say '____ you', and mean it.

But his change of heart is not entirely ____.

____ to Zagzebski, an American philosopher, he is not really generous.

When we ____ someone's character, we use words for various virtues: 'generous', 'kind', 'courageous', etc.

A person who ____ one gift isn't generous.

Instead, generosity is a stable part of a person's 'moral ____', an emotional habit that is part of who you are.

Thus virtues, as opposed to nontypical impulse, are the result of your personal ____.

They are part of who you are, as they are part of how your character was ____.

Instant ____ is therefore impossible.

Popping a pill cannot make you a ____ person.

To determine the mass of my bowling ball, I might put it ____ a balance and compare it with a known mass, such as a number of metal cubes each weighing 1, 10, or 100 grams.

Things get ____ more complicated if I want to know the mass of a distant star.

____ do I measure it?

We can roughly say that measuring the mass of a ____ involves various theories.

If we want to measure the mass of a binary star, we first determine a center of mass between the two stars, then their ____ from that center which we can then use, together with a value for the period and a certain instance of Kepler's Third Law, to calculate the mass.

In other words, in order to " measure" the star mass, we measure other quantities and use those values, together with certain equations, to ____ the mass.

Measurement is ____ a simple and unmediated estimation of independently existing properties, but a determination of certain magnitudes before the background of a number of accepted theories.

Based on discoveries in neuroscience, pain and pleasure are formed and processed in the same area of the ____.

Our bodies constantly strive for homeostasis, which is defined as the ____ of bodily functions.

Without the body's effective compensatory mechanisms, which may cushion potential highs and ____, we would not be capable of surviving.

Pleasure and pain are like two sides of the same coin; they seem to work together and are heavily reliant on one ____ and keep balance.

If you imagine pleasure and pain as the two opposite points on a scale, you ____ easily understand that as one of the two points rises, the other must correspondingly fall.

We've all heard the ____, "No pain, no gain."

Well, ____ to psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke, there may be some truth to these words.

She says that our attempts to escape being miserable are in fact making us even ____ miserable.

This is because pain is actually an essential component of our ability to ____ a neutral state, and allowing it will in turn reset our internal scale back to balance.

Manufacturers masterfully sow seeds of doubt about the adequacy of our current ____.

Suddenly, the phone that was your lifeline a year ____ is now a museum piece, unable to keep pace with your digital demands.

And thus, the itch to upgrade begins, often ____ there's a genuine need.

This cycle isn't ____ confined to our digital companions.

It spills over into almost every aspect of consumer electronics, from the self-driving car to the smart ____.

Every product seems to be on an unstoppable march ____ the next version, the next generation that promises to revolutionize your life.

What's fascinating, or perhaps disturbing, is the ____ efficacy of this cycle in shaping our desires.

It's not so much that we want the newest device; we're led to ____ we need it.

The distinction between want and need ____, shifting our financial priorities in favor of staying current with trends.

For all the logical arguments ____ this ceaseless upgrading, the temptation remains compelling.

The ____ above shows the shares of online sales out of total sales by each of five product categories in 2023 and the estimated ones in 2027.

The shares of ____ five categories are expected to increase by 2027 respectively, while not surpassing 50%.

Based on the selected categories, consumer electronics is anticipated to show the biggest gap in the share of online sales between 2023 and ____.

DIY and furniture showed the same share of online sales with 29% in 2023 but the share of DIY online ____ is estimated to exceed that of furniture online sales by 2027.

The share of beauty care online sales was lower than 20% by 2 percentage points in 2023, but is ____ to be higher than 20% in 2027.

In 2023, food showed the lowest share of online sales among the categories, but that share is projected to more than ____ by 2027.

Helen Suzman was an activist against apartheid, a racist political and social system in the Republic of South ____.

Suzman was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Germiston in the ____ of South Africa in 1917.

While working as a lecturer on economic history at Witwatersrand University, she ____ the South African Institute of Race Relations.

In 1953, she joined the United ____ and was elected to Parliament, but when the United Party adopted a more moderate stance on apartheid, Suzman and other progressive members left it and formed the Progressive Party in 1959.

Suzman tirelessly fought against apartheid, exposing the government's abuses and challenging its laws for a total of 36 ____ in Parliament.

Even after her retirement in 1989, she continued to ____ for a multi-racial democracy in the Republic of South Africa and influenced the drafting of the country's new constitution after the end of apartheid.

She ____ an active voice for human rights and democracy until her death in 2009.

Conditioned Place Preference is a way of ____ out what animals want.

Researchers train them to associate one place with an experience such as food or a loud noise and another ____ with something completely different, usually where nothing happens.

The two places are made obviously different to make it as easy as possible for the animal to associate each place with what ____ to it there.

The animal's preference for being in one place or another is measured both ____ and after its experiences in the two places.

If there is a shift in where the animal chooses to spend ____ time for the reward, this suggests that it liked the experience and is trying to repeat it.

Conversely, if it now avoids the place the stimulus appeared and starts to prefer the place it did not experience it, then this suggests that it found the stimulus ____.

For example, mice with cancer show a preference for the place where they have been given morphine, a drug used to ____ pain, rather than where they have received saline whereas healthy mice developed no such preference.

This suggests that the ____ with cancer wanted the morphine.

Near the equator, many species of ____ breed all year round.

But in temperate and polar regions, the breeding seasons of birds are ____ sharply defined.

They are ____ mainly by changes in day length.

If all goes well, the outcome is that birds raise their young when the food supply is at its ____.

Most birds are not simply reluctant to breed at other times but they are also ____ incapable of doing so.

This is because their reproductive system shrinks, which helps ____ birds save weight.

The ____ exception to this rule are nomadic desert species.

These can initiate their breeding cycle within days of ____.

It's for making the ____ of the sudden breeding opportunity.

Also, different ____ divide the breeding season up in different ways.

Most seabirds raise a single ____.

In warm regions, ____, songbirds may raise several families in a few months.

In an exceptionally ____ year, a pair of House Sparrows, a kind of songbird, can raise successive broods through a marathon reproductive effort.