2024년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To whom it may ____ My name is Peter Jackson and I am thinking of applying for the Advanced Licensed Counselor Program that the university provides.

I found that the certification for 100 hours of counseling experience is required for ____ application.

However, I do not think I could possibly complete ____ required counseling experience by the current deadline.

So, if possible, I kindly request ____ extension of the deadline until the end of this summer vacation.

I am actively working on ____ the certification, and I am sure I will be able to submit it by then.

I understand the importance of following the application process, and would greatly ____ your consideration of this request.

I ____ forward to your response.

The passport control line was short and the inspectors looked relaxed; ____ the inspector at my window.

He seemed to want to model the seriousness of ____ task at hand for the other inspectors.

Maybe that's why ____ felt uneasy when he studied my passport more carefully than I expected.

"You were here in September," he said. "Why are you back so ____

"I came in September to prepare to return this month," I ____ with a trembling voice, considering if I missed any Italian regulations.

"For how long?" he ____ "One month, this time," I answered truthfully.

I knew it was not against the rules ____ stay in Italy for three months.

"Enjoy your ____ he finally said, as he stamped my passport.

Whew! As I walked away, the burden I had ____ even though I did nothing wrong, vanished into the air.

My shoulders, once weighed down, now stretched out ____ comfort.

Merely convincing your children that worry is senseless and that they would be ____ content if they didn't worry isn't going to stop them from worrying.

For some reason, young people seem to believe that worry is a fact of life over which they have little ____ no control.

Consequently, they ____ even try to stop.

Therefore, you need to convince them that worry, like guilt and fear, is nothing more than an emotion, and like ____ emotions, is subject to the power of the will.

Tell them that they can eliminate ____ from their lives by simply refusing to attend to it.

Explain to them that if they refuse to act worried regardless of how they feel, they will eventually stop feeling worried and will begin to experience the contentment that accompanies ____ worry-free life.

In today's information age, in many companies and on ____ teams, the objective is no longer error prevention and replicability.

On the contrary, it's creativity, ____ and keenness.

____ the industrial era, the goal was to minimize variation.

But in creative ____ today, maximizing variation is more essential.

In these ____ the biggest risk isn't making a mistake or losing consistency; it's failing to attract top talent, to invent new products, or to change direction quickly when the environment shifts.

Consistency ____ repeatability are more likely to suppress fresh thinking than to bring your company profit.

A lot of little mistakes, while sometimes painful, ____ the organization learn quickly and are a critical part of the innovation cycle.

In these situations, rules and process are no longer the best ____

A symphony isn't ____ you're going for.

____ the conductor and the sheet music behind.

Build ____ jazz band instead.

Any new or threatening situation may require us to make ____ and this requires information.

So important is communication during a disaster that normal social barriers are ____ lowered.

We will talk to strangers in a way we would never consider ____

Even relatively low grade disruption of our life such as a fire drill or a very late train seems ____ give us the permission to break normal etiquette and talk to strangers.

The more important an event to a particular ____ the more detailed and urgent the requirement for news becomes.

Without an authoritative source of facts, whether that is a ____ or trusted broadcast station, rumours often run riot.

Rumours start because people believe their group to be in danger and so, although the rumour is unproven, feel ____ should pass it on.

For example, if a worker heard that their employer's business was doing badly and people were ____ to be made redundant, they would pass that information on to colleagues.

People seem to recognize that the arts are cultural activities that draw on (or react against) certain cultural traditions, certain shared understanding, and certain values and ideas that are characteristic of the time and place in which ____ art is created.

In the ____ of science, however, opinions differ.

Some scientists, like the great biologist J. B. S. ____ see science in a similar light ― as a historical activity that occurs in a particular time and place, and that needs to be understood within that context.

Others, however, see science as a purely "objective" pursuit, uninfluenced by the cultural viewpoint and values of ____ who create it.

In describing this view of science, philosopher Hugh Lacey speaks of the belief that there is an underlying order of the world which is simply there to be discovered ― the world of ____ "fact" stripped of any link with value.

The aim of science according to this view is to represent this world of pure "fact", independently of ____ relationship it might bear contingently to human practices and experiences.

Mental development consists of individuals increasingly mastering social codes and signals themselves, which they can master only in social situations with the support of more competent ____ typically adults.

In this sense, mental development consists of internalizing social patterns and gradually becoming a responsible actor ____ other responsible actors.

In Denmark, the ____ of criminal responsibility is 15 years, which means that we then say that people have developed sufficient mental maturity to be accountable for their actions at this point.

And at the age of 18 people are ____ the right to vote and are thereby formally included in the basic democratic process.

I do not know whether these age boundaries are optimal, but it is clear that mental development takes place at different rates for different individuals, and depends especially on the social and family environment they ____ been given.

Therefore, ____ formal limits for responsibility from a specific age that apply to everyone is a somewhat questionable practice.

But the question, of course, is whether it can be done ____ differently.

The graph above shows the percentage of people who provided unpaid care to children and adults by age ____ in Canada in 2022.

Notably, the ____ group had the highest percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to children, reaching 59.5%.

However, the highest percentage of ____ providing unpaid care to adults was found in the 55-64 group.

Compared to the 25-34 group, the 1524 group had a lower percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to children and a higher percentage of individuals ____ unpaid care to adults.

The percentage of ____ providing unpaid care to adults in the 45-54 group was more than twice as high as that in the 35-44 group.

The 55-64 group ____ the 65 and older group showed a similar percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to children, with a difference of less than 1 percentage point.

Born in the English city of Liverpool, Charles Elton studied ____ under Julian Huxley at Oxford University from 1918 to 1922.

After graduating, he began ____ as a parttime instructor and had a long and distinguished teaching career at Oxford from 1922 to 1967.

____ a series of arctic expeditions with Huxley, he worked with a fur-collecting and trading company as a biological consultant, and examined the company's records to study animal populations.

In 1927, he wrote his first and most ____ book, Animal Ecology, in which he demonstrated the nature of food chains and cycles.

In 1932, he helped establish ____ Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford.

In the ____ year he became the editor of the new Journal of Animal Ecology.

Throughout his career, Elton wrote six books and played a major role in shaping the modern ____ of ecology.

One well-known shift took place when the accepted view ― that the Earth was the center of the universe ― changed to one where we understood that we are only ____ on one planet orbiting the Sun.

With each person who grasped the ____ system view, it became easier for the next person to do so.

So it is with the notion that the world revolves around ____ human economy.

This is slowly being replaced by the view that the economy is a ____ of the larger system of material flows that connect all living things.

When this perspective shifts into place, it will be obvious that our economic well-being requires that we account for, and respond ____ factors of ecological health.

Unfortunately we do not have a century or two ____ make the change.

By clarifying the nature of the old and new perspectives, and by identifying actions on which we might cooperate to move the process along, we can help accelerate the ____

The first human beings probably evolved in tropical regions where ____ was possible without clothing.

It is likely that they had very dark skin because light skin would have given little protection against the burning rays of the ____

There is a debate about whether these people spread into other parts of ____ world or, instead, whether people developed independently in various parts of the world.

Whichever the case, ____ is believed that in time they became capable of spreading out from Africa, eventually to most of the world.

This ____ probably because their physical characteristics changed.

For instance, early hominids probably did not walk upright, but when they developed that ____ they could travel more efficiently.

More important, perhaps, was ____ development of tool making.

With tools, they could hunt other animals, so they could consume more protein and fat than their low-energy vegetarian ____ would have provided.

Not only their bodies but also their brains would have been ____ with more energy.

The brain ____ lots of energy to grow.

As their ____ expanded, hominids could physically and intellectually expand their territory.