2024년 9월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeevan wiped the ____ off his forehead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You want your child to be ____ 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 perhaps a ____, or worse.

One valuable technique for getting out of helplessness, depression, and situations which are ____ 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 ____ powers of self-help 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 their negative thoughts and have energized positive thought ____.

____ to be in their presence is beneficial.

In some ____ groups, this is called "hanging out with the winners."

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

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

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

From an evolutionary perspective, an emotion is a kind of "program" that, when ____, 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 ____ (so that we avoid the threat in the future).

Regardless 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 ____ within our environment long ago.

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

By ____ accessibility of the workplace for workers that are 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 hearing difficulties are becoming more widespread, improving the access to, and the quality of work for ____ with disabilities.

For example, speech recognition solutions for people with dysarthric voices, or live captioning systems for deaf and hard of ____ people 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 translate written and spoken ____ in real-time can improve the performance of nonnative speakers in the workplace.

____, recent 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 comparison, the average tree absorbs only 48 pounds of ____ a year.

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

Whales also help sequester carbon by fertilizing the ____ 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 ____ 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 to preindustrial whaling levels as one example of a "nature-based ____" to climate change.

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

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

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

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

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

The per capita ____ 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 ____ capita among its three major sources, just as it was in the United States and Germany.

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

During her ____, with her father's 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 contest sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences, and it was published a ____ 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 ____ Principia into French near the end of her life.

____ 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 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 ____ is to recognize the functional operations of different departments within the organization.

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

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

The ____ structure of organizations can create conflict.

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

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

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

An ____ alternative to calming traffic is removing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Distributing ____ and other 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.