2024년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Dear Residents, My name is Kari Patterson, and ____ the manager of the River View 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 will meet in ____ north parking lot.

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

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

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

It was ____ championship race.

Emma was the final runner ____ her relay team.

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

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

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

She felt her heart rate increasing as her teammate ____

But as she started running, she received the baton ____

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

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

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

All of her hard ____ had been worth it.

Most people resist the idea of a true self-estimate, probably because ____ 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 see yourself as ____ than you are."

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

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

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

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

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

Cultivate the ability to judge yourself ____ and honestly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is that what ____ want?

Is that what you're working hard ____

Let's hope ____

If a firm is going to be saved by the government, it might be easier ____ 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 term.

This is an example of something known as moral hazard ― when ____ support alters the decisions 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 ____ 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 ____ and poor decision making.

If there is little or no diversity of views, and all scientists see, think, and question the world ____ 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 far greater diversity in the practice of science: in gender, ethnicity, and social ____ 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 as ____

When science is done by a diverse group of people, and if consensus builds up about a particular area of scientific knowledge, then we can have ____ 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 ____ we're more likely to see it as remote, and, as a result, be less ready to jump into action.

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

For example, if it's ____ 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 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 a better ____ of starting ― 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 per person of China was the largest among the five ____ followed by that of Mongolia.

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

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

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

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

When he was 16, he ____ Harvard College.

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

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

However, he had hopes ____ becoming a nature poet.

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

At Walden, Thoreau did an incredible amount of ____

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

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

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

Although his works were not widely read during his lifetime, he never ____ 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 ____ blind, who have never seen a human face, also start to smile at around 2 months.

However, smiling ____ blind babies eventually disappears 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 ____ not alone and that someone cares about them.

This social feedback ____ the baby to continue smiling.

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

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

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

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

Take ____

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

But ____ opposite is true.

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

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

Think about eating ____ chips.

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

____ second chip is also pretty good.

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

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

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

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