2024년 6월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

____ Residents, 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 ____ beautiful.

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

We will divide into teams to plant flowers and small trees, pull weeds, and put ____ 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 working together, so come ____ and make this year's event even better!

It was the championship ____.

Emma was the final ____ on her relay team.

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

Emma ____ sure she could perform her role without making a mistake.

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

She felt her ____ rate increasing as her teammate approached.

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

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

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

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

All of her hard training had ____ worth it.

Most people ____ the idea 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.

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

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

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

The second half of ____ maxim is important too.

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

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

____ the ability to judge yourself accurately and honestly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sure, it might pay well ― but they ____ truly examined the transaction.

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

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

Is that what you ____?

Is that what you're ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ known as moral hazard ― when government 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 banks to take greater risks in the future because they know there is a ____ that governments will intervene if they lose money.

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

If there is little or no diversity of views, and all scientists see, think, and ____ 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 far greater diversity in the practice of science: in gender, ethnicity, and ____ and cultural backgrounds.

Science works because it is carried out by people who pursue their curiosity about the natural world and ____ their 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 particular area of scientific knowledge, then we can have more ____ 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, ____ 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 way to think ____ 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 view ____ as a challenge that you have to meet within a period that's imminent.

That way the stress is more ____, 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 ____ 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 was the largest ____ the five countries, followed by that of Mongolia.

However, in 2020, Mongolia surpassed China in terms of the amount of CO₂ emissions per person, with the amount of Mongolia more than ____ 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 ____ countries, India was the only one where the amount of CO₂ emissions per person was less than 2 tons in 2020.

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

When he was 16, he entered ____ College.

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

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

However, he had ____ of becoming a nature poet.

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

At Walden, Thoreau did an ____ amount of reading.

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

In his ____ life, Thoreau 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 seen a human face, also start to ____ at around 2 months.

However, smiling in blind ____ eventually disappears if nothing 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 cuddled, bounced, nudged, and tickled by an adult ― anything to let them know that they are not ____ and that someone cares about them.

This ____ feedback encourages the baby to continue smiling.

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

In fact, ____ don't need the 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 positive things with negative ones can ____ increase enjoyment.

____ commercials.

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

But the ____ is true.

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

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

Think ____ eating chocolate chips.

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

The second chip is ____ pretty good.

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

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

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

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