2024년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Dear ____ My name is Kari Patterson, and I'm the manager of the River View Apartments.

It's time to take advantage of the sunny weather to make our community more ____

____ Saturday, July 13 at 9 a.m., residents will meet in the north parking lot.

We ____ divide into teams to plant flowers and small trees, pull weeds, and put colorful decorations on the lawn.

Please join us for this year's Gardening Day, and remember no special ____ or tools are required.

Last year, we had a great time ____ together, so come out and make this year's event even better!

It was ____ championship race.

Emma was ____ final runner on her relay team.

She anxiously waited in her spot for her teammate to pass her the ____

Emma wasn't sure she could ____ her role without making a mistake.

Her hands shook as ____ thought, "What if I drop the baton?"

She felt her heart rate increasing as her ____ approached.

But as she started running, she received the ____ smoothly.

In the final 10 meters, she ____ two other runners and crossed the finish line in first place!

She raised her ____ in the air, and a huge smile came across her face.

As her teammates hugged ____ she shouted, "We did it!"

All of her hard training had ____ worth it.

Most people resist the idea of a true ____ probably because they fear it might mean downgrading some of their beliefs about who they are and what they're capable of.

As Goethe's maxim goes, it is a great failing "to ____ yourself as more than you are."

How could you really be considered ____ if you refuse to consider your weaknesses?

Don't fear self-assessment because you're worried you might have to admit some things ____ yourself.

____ second half of Goethe's maxim is important too.

____ states that it is equally damaging to "value yourself at less than your true worth."

We underestimate our capabilities just as much and just ____ dangerously as we overestimate other abilities.

Cultivate the ability to judge yourself accurately ____ honestly.

Look inward to discern what you're capable of and what it will take ____ unlock that potential.

Take a look at some ____ the most powerful, rich, and famous people in the world.

Ignore the trappings of ____ success and what they're able to buy.

Look instead at what they're forced to trade in ____ ― look at what success has cost them.

Mostly? Freedom. Their work demands they wear ____ suit.

Their success depends on attending certain parties, kissing up ____ people they don't like.

It will require ― inevitably ― realizing they are unable to say what they ____ think.

Worse, it demands that they ____ a different type of person or do bad things.

Sure, it might pay well ― but they haven't truly examined ____ transaction.

As Seneca put ____ "Slavery resides under marble and gold."

____ many successful people are prisoners in jails of their own making.

____ that what you want?

____ that what you're working hard toward?

____ hope not.

If a firm is going to be saved by the government, it might be easier to concentrate on lobbying the government for more money rather than taking the harder decision of restructuring the company to be able to be profitable and viable in the long ____

This is an example of something known as moral hazard ― when government support alters the ____ firms take.

For example, if governments rescue banks who get into difficulty, as they did during the credit crisis of 2007-08, this could encourage banks to take greater risks in the future because they know there is a possibility that governments will ____ if they lose money.

Although the government rescue may be well intended, it can negatively affect the behavior of banks, encouraging ____ and poor decision making.

If there is little or no diversity of views, and all scientists see, think, and question the world in a similar way, then they will not, as a community, be as objective ____ they maintain they are, or at least aspire to be.

The solution is that there should be far greater diversity in the practice of science: in gender, ethnicity, ____ social and cultural backgrounds.

Science works because it is carried out by people who pursue their curiosity about the natural world and test their and each other's ideas from as many varied perspectives and angles ____ possible.

When science ____ done by a diverse group of people, and if consensus builds up about a particular area of scientific knowledge, then we can have more confidence in its objectivity and truth.

We tend to break up time into units, such as weeks, months, and seasons; in ____ series of studies among farmers in India and students in North America, psychologists found that if a deadline is on the other side of a "break" ― such as in the New Year ― we're more likely to see it as remote, and, as a result, be less ready to jump into action.

What you need to do ____ that situation is find another way to think about the timeframe.

For example, if it's November and the deadline is in January, it's better to tell yourself you have to get it ____ "this winter" rather than "next year."

The best approach is to ____ deadlines as a challenge that you have to meet within a period that's imminent.

That ____ the stress is more manageable, and you have a better chance of starting ― and therefore finishing ― in good time.

The graph above shows the amount of CO₂ emissions per person across selected ____ countries in 2010 and 2020.

All the countries except Uzbekistan had a greater amount of CO₂ emissions ____ person in 2020 than that in 2010.

In 2010, the amount of CO₂ emissions per person of China was the largest among the five countries, followed by that of ____

However, in 2020, Mongolia surpassed China in terms of the amount of CO₂ emissions per person, with the amount of Mongolia ____ than twice that of China.

In 2010, Uzbekistan produced a larger amount of CO₂ emissions ____ person than Vietnam, while the opposite was true in 2020.

Among the five countries, India was the only one where the amount of CO₂ emissions per person ____ less than 2 tons in 2020.

____ David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817.

When he was 16, ____ entered Harvard College.

____ graduating, Thoreau worked as a schoolteacher but he quit after two weeks.

In ____ of 1838 he set up a school with his brother John.

____ he had hopes of becoming a nature poet.

In ____ he moved into a small self-built house near Walden Pond.

At Walden, Thoreau did an incredible amount ____ reading.

The journal he wrote there became ____ source of his most famous book, Walden.

In his later life, Thoreau traveled to ____ Maine woods, to Cape Cod, and to Canada.

At the age of 43, he ended his travels and ____ to Concord.

Although his works were not widely read during his lifetime, he never stopped writing, and his ____ fill 20 volumes.

The built-in capacity for smiling is proven by the remarkable observation that babies who are congenitally both deaf ____ blind, who have never seen a human face, also start to smile at around 2 months.

However, smiling in blind babies eventually ____ if nothing is done to reinforce it.

Without the right feedback, smiling ____ out.

But here's a fascinating fact: blind babies will continue to smile if they are cuddled, bounced, nudged, and tickled by an adult ― anything to let them know that they are not alone and that ____ cares about them.

This social feedback encourages the baby ____ continue smiling.

In ____ way, early experience operates with our biology to establish social behaviors.

In fact, you don't need ____ cases of blind babies to make the point.

Babies with sight ____ more at you when you look at them or, better still, smile back at them.

Because people tend to adapt, ____ positive things with negative ones can actually increase enjoyment.

____ commercials.

Most people ____ them, so removing them should make shows or other entertainment more enjoyable.

____ the opposite is true.

Shows are actually more enjoyable when ____ broken up by annoying commercials.

Because ____ less enjoyable moments break up adaptation to the positive experience of the show.

Think about ____ chocolate chips.

The first chip ____ delicious: sweet, melt-in-your-mouth goodness.

The second ____ is also pretty good.

But by the fourth, fifth, ____ tenth chip in a row, the goodness is no longer as pleasurable.

We adapt. ____ positive experiences with less positive ones, however, can decelerate adaptation.

Eating a Brussels sprout between chocolate chips or viewing commercials between parts ____ TV shows disrupts the process.

The less positive moment makes the following ____ one new again and thus more enjoyable.