2024년 9월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

I am writing to ____ my deep concern about the recent change made by Pittsburgh Train Station.

The station had traditional ticket offices with staff before, but these have been ____ with ticket vending machines.

However, individuals who are unfamiliar with these machines are now experiencing ____ accessing the railway services.

Since these individuals heavily relied on the staff ____ to be able to travel, they are in great need of ticket offices with staff in the station.

Therefore, I am ____ you to consider reopening the ticket offices.

With the staff back in their positions, many people would ____ access to the railway services.

I look forward to your prompt attention to this ____ and a positive resolution.

All the actors on the stage were ____ on their acting.

Then, suddenly, Arthur ____ into the corner of the stage.

Jeevan immediately approached Arthur and ____ his heart wasn't beating.

Jeevan began ____. Jeevan worked silently, glancing sometimes at Arthur's face.

He thought, "____, start breathing again, please." Arthur's eyes were closed.

Moments later, an older man in a grey ____ appeared, swiftly kneeling beside Arthur's chest.

"I'm Walter ____. I'm a doctor." He announced with a calm voice.

Jeevan ____ the sweat off his forehead.

With combined ____, Jeevan and Dr. Jacobi successfully revived Arthur.

Arthur's eyes slowly opened. Finally, Jeevan was able to hear Arthur's ____ again, thinking to himself, "Thank goodness. You're back."

As the parent of a gifted child, you need to be aware of a certain common parent ____.

Of course you are a proud parent, and ____ should be.

While it is very easy to talk nonstop about your little genius and his or her remarkable behavior, this can be very stressful on your ____.

It is extremely important to limit your bragging behavior to your very ____ friends, or your parents.

Gifted children feel pressured ____ their parents show them off too much.

This behavior creates expectations that they may not be able to live up to, and also creates a false ____ of self for your child.

You ____ your child to be who they are, not who they seem to be as defined by their incredible achievements.

If not, you could end up with a driven perfectionist child or ____ a dropout, or worse.

One valuable technique for getting out of helplessness, depression, and situations which are predominantly being run by the ____, "I can't," is to choose to be with other persons who have resolved the problem with which we struggle.

This is one of the great ____ of self-help groups.

When we are in a negative state, we have given a lot of energy to negative thought forms, and the positive thought ____ are weak.

Those who are in a higher vibration are free of the energy from their negative thoughts and have energized positive thought ____.

Merely to be in their ____ is beneficial.

In some self-help groups, this is called "hanging out with the ____."

The benefit here is on the psychic level of consciousness, and there is a transfer of positive ____ and relighting of one's own latent positive thought forms.

Our ____ are thought to exist because they have contributed to our survival as a species.

Fear has helped us avoid dangers, expressing anger helps us scare off threats, and expressing positive emotions helps us ____ with others.

From an evolutionary perspective, an emotion is a kind of "program" that, when triggered, directs many of our activities (including attention, perception, ____, movement, expressions, etc.).

For example, fear makes us very attentive, narrows our perceptual focus to threatening stimuli, will cause us either to face a situation (fight) or avoid it (flight), and may cause us to remember an experience more acutely (so that we avoid the threat in the ____).

____ of the specific ways in which they activate our systems, the specific emotions we possess are thought to exist because they have helped us (as a species) survive challenges within our environment long ago.

If they ____ not helped us adapt and survive, they would not have evolved with us.

By improving accessibility of the workplace for workers that are typically at a disadvantage in the labour market, AI can improve ____ in the workplace.

AI-powered assistive devices to aid workers with visual, speech or hearing ____ are becoming more widespread, improving the access to, and the quality of work for people with disabilities.

For example, speech recognition solutions for people with dysarthric ____, or live captioning systems for deaf and hard of hearing people can facilitate communication with colleagues and access to jobs where interpersonal communication is necessary.

AI can also enhance the capabilities of low-skilled workers, with potentially positive ____ on their wages and career prospects.

For example, AI's capacity to translate written and spoken word in ____ can improve the performance of nonnative speakers in the workplace.

Moreover, recent developments in ____ text generators can instantly improve the performance of lower-skilled individuals in domains such as writing, coding or customer service.

Whales are highly efficient at ____ storage.

When they die, ____ whale sequesters an average of 30 tons of carbon dioxide, taking that carbon out of the atmosphere for centuries.

For comparison, the average tree absorbs only 48 ____ of CO2 a year.

From a climate perspective, each whale is the marine ____ of thousands of trees.

Whales also help sequester carbon by fertilizing the ocean as they release nutrient-rich waste, in turn increasing phytoplankton populations, which also sequester carbon ― leading ____ scientists to call them the "engineers of marine ecosystems."

In 2019, economists from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated the value of the ecosystem ____ provided by each whale at over $2 million USD.

They called for a new global program of economic incentives to return whale populations to preindustrial whaling ____ as one example of a "nature-based solution" to climate change.

Calls are now being ____ for a global whale restoration program, to slow down climate change.

The above graph shows per capita CO2 emissions from coal, ____, and gas by countries in 2022.

The United ____ had the highest total per capita CO2 emissions, even though its emissions from coal were the second lowest among the five countries shown.

South Korea's total ____ capita CO2 emissions were over 10 tons, ranking it the second highest among the countries shown.

Germany had lower CO2 emissions per capita than ____ Korea in all three major sources respectively.

The per capita CO2 emissions from coal in ____ Africa were over three times higher than those in Germany.

In Brazil, oil was the largest source of CO2 emissions per capita ____ its three major sources, just as it was in the United States and Germany.

Emilie du Chatelet, a French mathematician and physicist, was born in ____ in 1706.

During her childhood, with her ____ support, she was able to get mathematical and scientific education that most women of her time did not receive.

In 1737, she submitted her paper on the nature of fire to a ____ sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences, and it was published a year later.

In her book, Institutions de Physique, Emilie du Chatelet explained the ideas of space and time in a way that is closer to what we understand in modern relativity than what was common ____ her time.

Her most significant achievement was translating Isaac Newton's Principia ____ French near the end of her life.

Emilie du Chatelet's work was not recognized in her time, but she is now remembered as a symbol of the Enlightenment and the struggle for ____ participation in science.

From an organizational viewpoint, one of the most fascinating examples of how any organization may contain many different types of ____ is to recognize the functional operations of different departments within the organization.

The varying departments and divisions within an organization will inevitably view any ____ situation from their own biased and prejudiced perspective.

A department and its members will acquire "tunnel vision" which ____ them to see things as others see them.

The very structure of organizations ____ create conflict.

The choice of whether the structure is "mechanistic" or "____" can have a profound influence on conflict management.

A mechanistic structure has a vertical hierarchy with ____ rules, many procedures, and many levels of management involved in decision making.

Organic structures are more horizontal in nature, where decision making is less centralized and spread across the ____ of the organization.

An excellent alternative to calming traffic is ____ it.

Some cities reserve an extensive network of lanes and streets for bikes, ____, and the occasional service vehicle.

This motivates people to travel by bike ____ than by car, making streets safer for everyone.

As bicycles become more popular in a city, planners can convert more automobile lanes and entire streets to ____ more of them.

Nevertheless, even the most bikeable cities still require motor ____ lanes for taxis, emergency vehicles, and delivery trucks.

Delivery vehicles are frequently a target of animus, but they are actually an essential component to making cities ____.

A tightly packed delivery truck is a far more efficient transporter of goods than several hybrids carrying a ____ shopping bags each.

Distributing food and ____ goods to neighborhood vendors allows them to operate smaller stores close to homes so that residents can walk, rather than drive, to get their groceries.