2024년 9월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

____ I am urging you to consider reopening the ticket offices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeevan wiped the sweat off his ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gifted children feel pressured when their parents show them off too ____

This behavior creates expectations that they may not be able to live up to, and ____ creates a false sense 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.

____ not, you could end up with a driven perfectionist child or perhaps 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 powers of ____ groups.

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

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

Merely to be in their ____ is beneficial.

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

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

Our emotions are thought to exist ____ 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 ____ us bond with others.

From an evolutionary ____ an emotion is a kind of "program" that, when triggered, directs many of our activities (including attention, perception, memory, 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 ____ the threat in the future).

Regardless of the specific ways in which they activate our systems, ____ 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 ____ typically at a disadvantage in the labour market, AI can improve inclusiveness in the workplace.

AI-powered assistive devices to aid workers with visual, speech or ____ difficulties 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 voices, or live captioning systems for deaf and hard of hearing ____ can facilitate communication with colleagues and access to jobs where interpersonal communication is necessary.

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

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

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

Whales are highly efficient ____ carbon storage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Brazil, oil was the largest source of CO2 emissions per capita among ____ 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 father's support, she was able to get mathematical and scientific education that most women of her ____ did not receive.

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

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

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

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

From an organizational viewpoint, one of the most fascinating ____ of how any organization may contain many different types of culture 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 ____ acquire "tunnel vision" which disallows them to see things as others see them.

The very ____ of organizations can create conflict.

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

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

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

An excellent alternative to calming traffic is removing ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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