2024년 9월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

I look forward to your prompt attention to ____ matter and 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 and found his heart ____ beating.

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

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

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

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

Jeevan wiped the ____ off his forehead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ valuable technique for getting out of helplessness, depression, and situations which are predominantly being run by the thought, "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 self-help ____

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

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

Merely to be in their ____ is beneficial.

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

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

Our emotions are thought ____ 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 ____ bond with others.

From an evolutionary perspective, an emotion ____ 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 avoid ____ threat in the future).

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

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

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

AI-powered assistive devices to aid ____ with visual, speech or hearing 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 ____ 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 ____ with potentially positive effects on their wages and career prospects.

For example, AI's ____ to translate 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 at ____ storage.

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

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

From a ____ perspective, each whale is the marine 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 ____ International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated the value of the ecosystem services provided by each whale at over $2 million USD.

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

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

The above graph shows per capita CO2 emissions from coal, oil, and gas ____ countries 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 CO2 emissions were over 10 ____ ranking it the second highest among the countries shown.

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

The ____ capita CO2 emissions from coal 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 its ____ major sources, just as it was in the United States and Germany.

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

During her childhood, with her father's support, she was able to ____ 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 contest sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences, and ____ was published a year later.

In her book, Institutions ____ 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 during her time.

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

Emilie du Chatelet's work was not recognized ____ 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 examples of how any organization may contain many different types of culture is to recognize the ____ operations of different departments within the organization.

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

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

The very ____ of organizations can create conflict.

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

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

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

An ____ alternative to calming traffic is removing it.

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 car, ____ streets safer for everyone.

As ____ 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 ____ lanes for taxis, emergency vehicles, and delivery trucks.

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

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

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