2024년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was the championship ____

Emma ____ the final runner on her relay team.

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

Emma wasn't sure she could perform her role ____ making a mistake.

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

She felt her heart rate increasing as her teammate ____

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

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

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

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

All of her hard training had ____ worth it.

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

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

How could you really be considered self-aware if you refuse to ____ your weaknesses?

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

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

He states ____ 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.

____ the ability to judge yourself accurately and honestly.

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

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

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

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

Mostly? Freedom. Their work demands they wear a ____

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

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

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

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

As Seneca put it, "Slavery ____ under marble and gold."

Too many successful people are prisoners in jails of their own ____

Is that ____ you want?

Is that what ____ working hard toward?

Let's ____ 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 ____ than taking the harder decision of restructuring the company to be able to be profitable and viable in the long term.

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

For example, if governments rescue banks who ____ 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 intervene if they lose money.

Although the government rescue may be well intended, it can negatively affect the behavior of banks, encouraging risky and ____ 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 ____ objective as they maintain they are, or at least aspire to be.

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

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

When science is done by a diverse group of people, and if consensus builds up about a ____ 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 a 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 ― ____ more likely to see it as remote, and, as a result, be less ready to jump into action.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2010, ____ produced a larger amount of CO₂ emissions per 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 was less than 2 ____ in 2020.

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in ____

When he was 16, ____ entered Harvard College.

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

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

____ he had hopes of becoming a nature poet.

In 1845, he moved into a small self-built house near Walden ____

At Walden, Thoreau did an incredible amount ____ reading.

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ the right feedback, smiling dies 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 ____ not alone and that someone cares about them.

This ____ feedback encourages the baby to continue smiling.

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

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

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

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

Take ____

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

____ the opposite is true.

____ are actually more enjoyable when they're broken up by annoying commercials.

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

Think about eating ____ chips.

The first chip is delicious: sweet, ____ goodness.

____ second chip is also pretty good.

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

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

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

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