2024년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

It's time to take advantage of the ____ weather to make our community 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 ____ trees, 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 ____, so come out and make this year's event even better!

It was the championship ____.

Emma was the ____ runner on her relay team.

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

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

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

She felt her ____ rate increasing as her teammate approached.

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

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

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

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

All of her hard training ____ been worth it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cultivate the ____ to judge yourself accurately and honestly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is that what ____ want?

Is that what ____ working hard toward?

Let's hope ____.

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 decisions ____ 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 ____ they know there is a possibility that governments will intervene if they lose money.

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

If ____ 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 as they maintain they are, or at least aspire to be.

The solution is that there should be ____ 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 their and each other's ideas from as many varied perspectives and ____ as possible.

When science is done by a ____ 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 ____ 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 ― 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 in that situation is find another ____ to think about the timeframe.

For ____, if it's November and the deadline is 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 ____ deadlines as a challenge that you have to meet within a period that's imminent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When he was 16, he ____ Harvard College.

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

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

However, he had hopes of becoming a ____ poet.

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

At Walden, Thoreau ____ an incredible amount of reading.

The journal he ____ there became the source of his 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 travels and ____ to Concord.

Although his works were not widely read during his lifetime, he ____ stopped writing, and his works fill 20 volumes.

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

However, smiling in blind babies eventually disappears if ____ is done to reinforce it.

Without the ____ feedback, smiling dies out.

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

This social feedback encourages the ____ to continue smiling.

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

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

Babies with sight smile more at you ____ 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.

Take ____.

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

But the ____ is true.

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

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

Think about ____ chocolate chips.

The first chip is delicious: sweet, ____ goodness.

The second chip is also pretty ____.

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

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

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

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