2024년 10월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

I kindly request an additional budget allocation ____ these expenses.

Please refer to the attachment for ____

Thank ____ for your attention.

Katie approached the hotel ____ desk to check-in 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 ____ the receptionist said.

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

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

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

"I found it! It seems there was a small ____ 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, ____ 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 mathematics has bearing so as to make informed ____ about how to solve these problems.

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

Navigating our world ____ being 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 not possible ____ using mathematics and critical thinking.

Thus, teaching mathematics should be done in interaction with critical thinking along with a ____ 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 ____ a Christmas present after taking a generosity booster.

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

____ be pleased to receive the gift.

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

But ____ change of heart is not entirely satisfying.

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

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

A person ____ gives one gift isn't generous.

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

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

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

Instant virtue is ____ impossible.

____ a pill cannot make you a better person.

To determine the mass of ____ 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 ____ I measure it?

We can roughly say that ____ the mass of a star 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 distance from that center which ____ 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 not a simple and unmediated estimation of ____ existing properties, but a determination of certain magnitudes before the background of a number of accepted theories.

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

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

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

Pleasure and pain are like two sides of the ____ coin; they seem 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 scale, you can ____ understand that as one of the two points rises, the other must correspondingly fall.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ product seems to be on an unstoppable march towards 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 ____ to believe we need it.

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

____ all the logical arguments against 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 all five categories are expected to ____ 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 ____ 2023 and 2027.

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 ____ in 2023, but is estimated to be higher than 20% in 2027.

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

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

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

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

In 1953, she joined the United Party 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 ____ Party in 1959.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This ____ that the mice with cancer wanted the morphine.

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

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

They are triggered mainly ____ changes in day length.

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

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

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

The ____ exception to this rule are nomadic desert species.

These can ____ their breeding cycle within days of rain.

It's for making the most of the sudden breeding ____

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

Most seabirds raise a single ____

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

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