2024년 10월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

Since my department has ____ three more 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 budget allocation for these ____

Please refer to the attachment ____ details.

Thank you ____ your attention.

Katie approached the hotel front desk to ____ but an unexpected event unfolded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be mathematically ____ means to be able to think critically about societal issues on which mathematics 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 innovative ways of planning and organizing mathematical ____ methods.

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

Therefore, making decisions, even qualitatively, is not possible without ____ 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 ____ support students to develop them.

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

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

You'd ____ pleased to receive the gift.

You'd say 'thank ____ and mean it.

But his ____ of heart is not entirely satisfying.

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

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

A person who gives one gift isn't ____

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

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

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

Instant virtue is ____ impossible.

Popping a pill cannot ____ you a better person.

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

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

How do I ____ it?

We can roughly say that measuring the mass of a star ____ 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 distance from that center which we ____ 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 ____ " measure" the star mass, we measure other quantities and use those values, together with certain equations, to calculate the mass.

Measurement is not a simple and unmediated estimation ____ independently existing properties, but a determination of certain magnitudes before the background of a number of accepted theories.

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

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

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

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

If you imagine pleasure and pain as the two opposite points on a ____ you can 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, according to psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke, there may be ____ truth to these words.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The shares ____ all 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 ____ sales between 2023 and 2027.

____ and furniture showed the same share of online sales with 29% in 2023 but the share of DIY online sales 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 estimated to be higher than ____ in 2027.

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

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

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

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

In 1953, she joined the United Party and was elected ____ 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 ____ challenging its laws for a total of 36 years in Parliament.

Even after her ____ in 1989, she continued to advocate 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.

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

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

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

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

If there is a shift in where the animal chooses to spend its time ____ 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 ____ that it found the stimulus unpleasant.

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

This suggests that the mice ____ cancer wanted the morphine.

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

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

____ are triggered mainly by changes in day length.

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

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

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

The main ____ to this rule are nomadic desert species.

These can initiate their breeding cycle ____ days of rain.

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

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

Most seabirds raise a single ____

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

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