2024년 10월 고3 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

I hope ____ email finds you well.

Thank you for considering me ____ a speaker for the upcoming Digital Marketing Workshop.

I appreciate ____ invitation and your thoughtfulness.

The workshop sounds like an amazing event, and I would ____ loved to participate.

However, I regret ____ inform you that I will be overseas on a business trip during the workshop.

It is unfortunate that the ____ does not work out.

____ I cannot attend as a speaker this time, I remain hopeful for future opportunities where our schedules might coincide.

I hope the workshop ____ well.

Setting out to find some wood for the campfire, Sarah moved through ____ forest.

Just ____ she noticed an approaching danger ─ a large, threatening bear.

Panic spread through ____ body.

Frozen and unable to shout, she watched ____ horror.

Her heart beat louder with each ____ the bear took.

But then, as if by a miracle, the bear paused, looked around, ____ uninterested, turned away, retreating into the shadows of the woods.

When the bear had disappeared completely out of her sight, her knees nearly ____ way.

Sarah could ____ let out the breath she had been holding.

A wave of immense relief ____ over her.

There are few universals in this ____ but among them are our love for our children and our love of music.

When we hold a baby in our arms, comforting her with song, we are ____ the emotional power of music.

We do so instinctively, just as ____ ancestors did.

Music can be a powerful parental ally during the ____ child-rearing years.

To successfully prepare our children for life in the twenty-first century, we ____ need to nurture qualities such as curiosity, imagination, empathy, creative entrepreneurship, and most of all resilience.

Musical practice in ____ childhood develops all of the above and more.

Research has shown that musical practice in early childhood is beneficial not only for mental acuity but for social ____ emotional development as well.

Music is not just a hobby, a pleasant pastime; it is ____ integral part of what makes us happy, healthy, and whole.

____ if we want to do one thing to help our children develop into emotionally, socially, intellectually, and creatively competent human beings, we should start the musical conversation ─ the earlier the better.

In 1890, William James described ____ as "the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought."

Attention is a choice we make to stay on one task, ____ line of thinking, one mental road, even as attractive offramps signal.

When we fail to make ____ choice and allow ourselves to be frequently sidetracked, we end up in "the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state" that James said is the opposite of attention.

Staying on one road got much harder when the internet arrived and moved much of ____ reading online.

Every hyperlink is an off-ramp, calling us to abandon the ____ we made moments earlier.

Nicholas Carr, in his 2010 book, grieved his lost ability to stay on ____ path.

Life on the internet changed how his brain sought out information, even when he was off-line trying to read a ____

It reduced his ability to focus and ____ because he now craved a constant stream of stimulation:

"Once I was a scuba diver in the ____ of words.

Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet ____

Technical, book knowledge consists of "formulated rules which ____ or may be, deliberately learned."

Practical knowledge, on the other hand, cannot be taught or ____ but only transmitted and acquired.

It exists ____ in practice.

When we talk about practical ____ we tend to use bodily metaphors.

We say that somebody has ____ touch for doing some activity ─ an ability to hit the right piano key with just enough force and pace.

We say that somebody has a feel for the game, an intuition for how events are going to unfold, an awareness of when you should plow ahead with a problem and when you should put it aside before coming back ____ it.

____ the expert is using her practical knowledge, she isn't thinking more; she is thinking less.

She has built up a repertoire of skills through habit and has thereby extended the ____ of tasks she can perform without conscious awareness.

This sort of knowledge is built up through experience, and ____ is passed along through shared experience.

____ human desire to make pictures is deeply rooted.

At least 64,000 years ago, Neanderthals used colored oxide and charcoal to make paintings of large wild animals, tracings of human hands, and abstract patterns on cave and ____ walls.

Today, people create images with a multitude of mediums, ____ photography.

What drives ____ picturemaking impulse?

Some make pictures ____ commercial reasons.

Others create informational systems ____ employ scientific imaging tools to visualize the unseen.

Artists use images expressionistically, to conceptualize and articulate who they are and how ____ view the world.

However, the fundamental motive for making the vast majority of pictures is a desire to ____ to document, and therefore honor, specific people, events, and possessions of importance.

____ of purpose, the making of images persists because words alone cannot always provide a satisfactory way to describe and express our relationship to the world.

Pictures are an essential component of how humans observe, communicate, celebrate, comment, ____ most of all, remember.

What and ____ we remember shapes our worldview, and pictures can provide a stimulus to jog one's memory.

We naturally gravitate toward people whose views and ____ are similar to our own, seeking what the eighteenth-century moral philosopher Adam Smith called "a certain harmony of minds."

Spending time with people who share our opinions reinforces our group ____ strengthening trust, cooperation, equality, and productivity.

Our shared reality grounds us not ____ in our common perceptions but in similar feelings and worldviews.

This helps to preserve ____ core values and beliefs about ourselves.

It also provides us with meaning ____ a feeling of self-worth.

And with each decision ____ interaction that confirms our tribe's common experience, we get rewarded with the hormonal happiness we crave.

Our perception of ourselves is a mixture of our own unique characteristics ____ our sense of belonging to our in-groups.

In fact, our personal identity is so closely interwoven with our social identity that our brains can't tell them ____

If I put you in a scanner and ask you to talk about yourself and ____ about the groups to which you feel the closest affinity, it will activate the same neural networks in your brain.

The above graph shows awareness and ____ of smartphone applications featuring machine learning in 2017.

In each of the five surveyed applications, the percentage of respondents demonstrating awareness was higher than that ____ respondents demonstrating usage.

Predictive text had the highest percentages of respondents in both awareness and usage, among the ____ applications.

The percentage of respondents ____ awareness of voice search was more than four times that of respondents using it.

Voice-to-text showed a higher percentage of the respondents reporting awareness of it than email classification, while this was not the ____ in their usage.

The percentage of respondents showing usage of automated photo classification was less than half of ____ percentage of those showing awareness of it.

Mary Douglas Leakey was ____ in 1913 in London, England in a family of scholars and researchers.

Her ____ who was an artist, took her to see the stone tools being studied by French prehistorians.

This sparked ____ interest in archaeology.

When she was just 17 years old, she served as an illustrator at ____ dig in England.

Shortly after marrying Louis Leakey, she ____ for East Africa with her husband.

Together, they made important fossil ____

In 1948, Mary found a partial skull fossil of Proconsul africanus ____ Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria.

In 1959 in ____ she discovered the skull of an early hominin that her husband named Zinjanthropus boisei, which is now known as Paranthropus boisei.

Even after her husband's death ____ 1972, Mary continued her work in Africa.

____ died in 1996, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sometime late in the next millennium, our descendants may ____ off to other star systems.

They may use comets as stepping-stones, some of which are only loosely bound to our sun because they reach almost halfway ____ the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.

____ remote descendants may eventually colonize much of our galaxy just as the first living organisms on Earth once colonized Earth's young oceans.

Interstellar migrations will depend on as yet unimagined technologies for driving ____ for maintaining sustainable environments, and for putting humans into hibernations lasting for centuries.

Interstellar journeys will also depend on the existence of groups willing to risk long and dangerous voyages with little or no hope ____ returning.

It would take spaceships traveling at 1 percent of the speed of light more than four ____ years to reach the Alpha Centauri system.

____ if they spread out from there at a similar rate, they could settle star systems throughout the Milky Way within one hundred million years, which is just a bit longer than the span of time since dinosaurs ruled our Earth.

Notably, young animals of many species have a special status, a leeway period granted by older members of ____ group.

This break from the hierarchy is ____ "puppy license" by the behaviorists who see it in dogs, but it's a feature of family dynamics in a range of species.

Older animals will overlook, or gently correct, ____ inappropriate display of dominance as long as the offender is young enough not to know better.

Puppy license also covers play: older dogs seem to enjoy puppy playfulness, and may encourage young dogs by wrestling more gently, barking more softly, and sometimes letting the ____ win.

As soon as ____ young dog hits a certain point in adolescence, however, its puppy license expires.

Behaviors that were lightheartedly tolerated just a few days before are ____ met with adult pushback.

Although the dog is still young and may lack experience, it is challenged and treated ____ an adult.

In the human world and in the dog world, as juveniles mature into ____ and their puppy licenses are no longer valid, a tolerant world becomes irritated and intolerant.