2025년 10월 고2 모의고사 빈칸 변형 (18-30번)

To the Customer Service Team, About a month ago, my ____ and I purchased a set of bookshelves from your store.

I was ____ excited to find furniture that perfectly matched our new home.

When we bought the bookshelves, the manager said it would take four weeks for delivery, which was last ____

We had set our plans ____ ensure someone would be available to receive the delivery; however, no one came with the bookshelves that day.

This delay has ____ us considerable inconvenience.

Therefore, please provide a clear ____ specific delivery date.

We expect this issue to be addressed promptly, so that we can reorganize our schedule to receive the delivery ____ any confusion.

I was heading ____ the direction of a forest road that I knew would take me home.

But almost as though someone had ____ off all the lights I was suddenly in a black forest with no light of any kind.

Feeling lost, I ____ I fell.

I tore my clothes ____ injured myself falling down a hill.

____ desperation I stopped and leaned against a tree.

I have no idea where I am now. Will anyone ____ notice that I'm gone?

It was ____ that a faint aroma drifted through the darkness: the scent of cooking.

I stumbled towards it, and soon, a faint, yellowish ____ glowed through the trees.

____ was Uncle Krull's cabin and I could see him through the window!

Thankful beyond words, I knew I could finally ask for help. My ____ was over.

____ you are working in healthcare, it is important to develop a solid professional relationship with your patients.

By ____ realistic self­-boundaries, you can protect that relationship.

It is important to ____ the focus on the patient.

When ____ with patients who are seen frequently, it is easy to start to think of them as friends.

With a friend, you ____ likely to share personal information that is not appropriate with a patient.

Patients may feel that they cannot share important health-­related information because you are their friend, and it would be embarrassing ____ share that information.

Self­-boundaries can also be thought ____ as professional boundaries.

You need to treat patients with respect and keep the relationship ____

Be friendly to patients ____ always keep the focus on the patient.

Coat a fresh, wet swab in salt, and gently touch various ____ on your tongue, recording where your taste seems strongest.

Then, gargle with water to thoroughly clean your tongue, ____ a swab coated with sugar on the same spots, and record those results.

Gargle ____ and then swab with lemon juice.

After a final gargle, try coffee. Compare your reactions with your ____

Your taste pattern may reveal more ____ just taste preferences.

Recent ____ suggest links between taster status and behavioral disorders.

For example, "non-­tasters" tend to have a higher incidence of alcoholism, perhaps because liquor ____ less bitter to them.

Conversely, "super­tasters" may avoid nutritious ____ mildly bitter foods such as broccoli, thus depriving themselves of a balanced diet.

So, although taste is not nearly as glamorous as vision, hearing, or even touch, it makes ____ for you to pay closer attention to it because chemistry, at least in your mouth, could be destiny.

Experiments testify to ____ embrace of ignorance.

Arguably the worst thing a scientist can do is to suppose they know what will happen in a ____ scenario without bothering to check.

The rise of the experimental philosophy coincided ____ the liberation of curiosity as a valuable rather than a questionable attribute.

For all that experimental science today is often assumed to be supported by a philosophical framework and an approved methodology "state your hypothesis and then test it", the fact is that, as philosopher of science Ian Hacking says, "One can conduct an experiment simply ____ of curiosity to see what will happen."

Indeed, in the view of Charles Darwin's son, the astronomer George Darwin, once in a ____ one should do a completely crazy experiment, even if it is most likely to prove fruitless.

You never ____ until you try.

We can discard or replace a scientific ____ only if we have a better way of explaining the evidence that supports it.

The theories of Newton ____ Einstein offer great examples.

A vast body of evidence supports Newton's theory of gravity, but by the late nineteenth century scientists ____ begun to discover cases where its predictions did not perfectly match observations.

These discrepancies were explained only when Einstein developed his ____ theory of relativity, which was able to match the observations.

____ the many successes of Newton's theory could not be ignored, and Einstein's theory would not have gained acceptance if it had not been able to explain these successes equally well.

It did, and that is why we now view Einstein's theory as a broader theory ____ gravity than Newton's theory.

Some scientists today are ____ a theory of gravity that will go beyond Einstein's.

If any new theory ever gains acceptance, it will have to match all the ____ of Einstein's theory as well as work in new realms where Einstein's theory does not.

Imagine pausing ____ the middle of a busy day, taking a moment to refresh your mind and recharge your energy.

This ____ of a midday break is often underestimated.

When you break away from routine, ____ with activities designed to stimulate your brain, you prevent cognitive tiredness and enhance productivity for the rest of the day.

Neurobic exercises ― simple yet ____ ― are perfect for such breaks.

They target different areas of your brain, keeping ____ agile and alert.

These exercises create a mental oasis that refreshes and prepares you for the afternoon's ____

This strategic pause is not just ____ break; it boosts your cognitive capabilities, ensuring your mind remains sharp and focused.

Even briefly experimenting with neurobic exercises can work wonders for your ____ state during lunch.

Start with using your non­dominant hand ____ routine tasks like writing or eating.

This simple switch challenges your brain, activating pathways that aren't typically engaged and promoting greater flexibility in ____

The graph above illustrates the percentage of 25­ to 34-­year-­olds ____ adults) who attained either a bachelor's or a master's degree as their highest degree in five selected OECD countries as of 2022.

The Republic of Korea had the highest percentage of young adults with a bachelor's ____ their highest degree, but the lowest percentage of those with a master's as their highest degree.

New Zealand had the second-­highest percentage of young adults with a bachelor's as their highest degree, followed by the ____ States.

In ____ and France, the percentage of young adults with a master's as their highest degree exceeded that of those with a bachelor's as their highest degree, unlike the other three countries.

In Luxembourg, the percentage of young adults with ____ master's as their highest degree was no more than double that of those with a bachelor's as their highest degree.

France showed the smallest gap of 9 percentage points between the percentages of young adults with a bachelor's and ____ master's as their highest degree.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon was ____ American musician and civil rights activist.

She displayed musical ____ from an early age.

At 12, during her ____ classical recital, her parents' seats, originally near the front, were moved to the back against their will to make seats for white people.

After ____ from high school, she prepared for an audition at the Curtis Institute of Music, but her application was rejected, which she attributed to racial discrimination.

____ fund her private lessons, she began performing in Atlantic City, adopting the stage name "Nina Simone."

In the 1960s, she became a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and composed and performed songs ____ a response to racism and violence in the Southern United States.

Frustrated by the racism in the United States, she left the ____ in 1970, living in various places before settling in France.

She passed away in ____ but her reputation continues through her powerful music.

When a cell divides, the ____ of its two daughters are often not quite identical to each other or to that of the parent cell.

On rare occasions, the error may represent a change for the better; more probably, it ____ cause no significant difference in the cell's prospects.

But in some ____ the error will cause serious damage; for example, by disrupting the coding sequence for a key protein.

Changes due to mistakes of the first type will tend to be perpetuated, because the altered cell has an increased likelihood of ____ itself.

Changes due to mistakes of the second type ― neutral changes ― may be perpetuated or not: it is a matter of chance whether the altered cell or its cousins will ____

But changes that cause serious damage lead nowhere: the cell ____ suffers them dies, leaving no progeny.

Through endless repetition of this cycle of mutation and natural selection organisms evolve: their genetic specifications change, sometimes giving organisms new ways ____ exploit the environment more effectively, to survive in competition with others, and to reproduce successfully.

Within liberal culture, the value of ____ equality of opportunity for individuals outweighs the preservation of the family's integrity.

In contrast, for Confucian culture, while seeking fair equality of opportunity for individuals is important, the family assumes a fundamental role in ____ flourishing, and living within a family institution is considered the essential way of life.

Individuals are ____ understood as family members before they are regarded as state citizens.

____ for Confucians, the family possesses inherent value that should never be abandoned, even if it results in certain societal inequalities.

Some cultures, like the liberal one, may choose to impose increasing restrictions on the role of families and implement more egalitarian government programs for education, healthcare, ____ other positive rights in society in the pursuit of fair equality of opportunity.

On the other hand, other cultures, like the Confucian one, may prefer to primarily assign welfare ____ to the family, allowing inequalities stemming from the existence of the family as long as everyone's basic freedoms and rights are safeguarded in the state.