2025년 3월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

____ Miranda, Thank you for participating in our Crafts Art Fair.

Since we've chosen you as one of the 'Artists of This Year', we are ____ forward to introducing your unique handmade baskets to our community.

As part of organizing the exhibition plan, we are ____ to inform you that your artworks will be exhibited at the assigned table, number seven.

Visitors can easily find your artworks ____ near the entrance.

If you have any special requirements or need further assistance, feel free to ____ us in advance.

The shed is cold and ____, the air thick with the smell of old wood and earth.

It's dark, and I can't ____ out what's moving in the shadows.

"Who's there?" I ask, my voice shaking with ____.

The shadow moves closer, and my heart is beating fast ─ until the figure steps into a faint ____ of light breaking through a crack in the wall.

A rabbit. A laugh escapes my ____ as it stares at me with wide, curious eyes.

"You scared me," I say, feeling ____ better.

The rabbit pauses for a moment, then hops ____, disappearing back into the shadows.

I'm left smiling. I start to feel at ____.

Improving your gestural communication involves more than just ____ when to nod or shake hands.

It's about using gestures to complement your spoken messages, adding layers of ____ to your words.

Open-handed gestures, for example, can indicate honesty, creating an atmosphere of ____.

You invite openness and ____ when you speak with your palms facing up.

This simple yet powerful gesture can make others feel more comfortable and willing to ____ in conversation.

But be ____ of the trap of overgesturing.

Too many hand movements can distract from your ____, drawing attention away from your words.

Imagine a speaker ____ hands move quickly like birds, their message lost in the chaos of their gestures.

Balance is key. Your gestures should highlight your words, not overshadow ____.

____ gene editing in humans proves to be safe and effective, it might seem logical, even preferable, to correct disease-causing mutations at the earliest possible stage of life, before harmful genes begin causing serious problems.

Yet once it becomes possible to transform an embryo's mutated genes into "normal" ones, there will ____ be temptations to upgrade normal genes to superior versions.

Should we begin editing genes in unborn children to lower their lifetime risk of heart ____ or cancer?

What about giving unborn children beneficial features, like greater strength and increased mental abilities, or ____ physical characteristics, like eye and hair color?

The pursuit for perfection seems almost natural to human nature, but if we start down this slippery slope, we may ____ like where we end up.

The ____ we learn in grade school is a collection of certainties about the natural world ─ the earth goes around the sun, DNA carries the information of an organism, and so on.

Only when ____ start to learn the practice of science do you realize that each of these "facts" was hard won through a succession of logical inferences based upon many observations or experiments.

The process of science is less about collecting pieces of knowledge than it is ____ reducing the uncertainties in what we know.

Our uncertainties can be greater or lesser for any given ____ of knowledge depending upon where we are in that process ─ today we are quite certain of how an apple will fall from a tree, but our understanding of the turbulent fluid flow remains a work in progress after more than a century of effort.

There is a wealth of evidence that when parents, teachers, supervisors, and coaches are perceived as involved and caring, ____ feel happier and more motivated.

And it is not just ____ people with power ─ we need to feel valued and respected by peers and coworkers.

Thus, when the need for relatedness is met, ____ and internalization are fueled, provided that support for autonomy and competence are also there.

If we are trying to motivate others, a caring relationship is a ____ basis from which to begin.

And ____ we are trying to motivate ourselves, doing things to enhance a sense of connectedness to others can be crucial to long-term persistence.

So exercise with a friend, call someone when you have a difficult decision to make, and be there as a ____ for others as they take on challenges.

Modern brain-scanning techniques such as fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) have revealed that reading aloud lights up many areas of the ____.

There is intense activity in areas associated with pronunciation and hearing the sound of the spoken response, which strengthens the connective structures of your brain cells for more ____.

This leads to an ____ improvement in concentration.

Reading aloud is also a good way to develop your public speaking skills because it forces you to read each and every ____ ─ something people don't often do when reading quickly, or reading in silence.

Children, in particular, should be encouraged to read aloud because the brain is wired for learning through connections that are created by positive stimulation, such as ____, touching, and reading aloud.

The above ____ shows how often people in America consumed fast food in 2023, sorted according to frequency of consumption.

More than 50 percent of individuals ____ fast food once a week or more frequently.

The most highly reported pattern of consumption was a few times a ____, which was 36 percent of the total.

The second ____ highly reported pattern was a few times a month, accounting for 18 percent of the total.

The percentage of people who ate fast food once every couple of months was more than that of ____ who consumed it daily.

The ____ share of those who rarely or never ate fast food was less than 10 percent.

Robert E. Lucas, Jr. was born on September 15, 1937, in Yakima, ____.

During World War II, his family ____ to Seattle, where he graduated from Roosevelt High School.

At the University of Chicago, he majored in ____.

After taking economic history courses at ____ of California, Berkeley, he developed an interest in economics.

He earned a doctoral degree in ____ from the University of Chicago in 1964.

He taught at Carnegie Mellon University from 1963 to 1974 ____ returning to the University of Chicago to become a professor of economics.

He was known as a very influential economist and, in 1995, he was ____ the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Routines ____ athletes to evaluate competition conditions.

For ____, bouncing a ball in a volleyball service routine supplies the server with information about the ball, the floor, and the state of her muscles.

This information can then be used to properly prepare for her ____.

Routines also enable athletes to adjust and fine-tune their preparations based on those evaluations or in pursuit of a ____ competitive goal.

This ____ can involve adjustment to the conditions, rivals, competitive situation, or internal influences that can affect performance.

Just like adjusting a race-car engine to the conditions of the track, air temperature, and weather, routines adjust all ____ components to achieve proper performance.

Promotion ____ with consumer psychology.

We can't force people to think one way or ____, and the clever marketer knows that promotion is used to provide information in the most clear, honest, and simple fashion possible.

By doing so, the possibility of increasing ____ goes up.

Gone are the days when promotions were done in order to fool the consumer ____ purchasing something.

The long-term effect of getting a consumer to buy something they did not really ____ or need wasn't good.

In fact, consumers fooled once can do damage to sales as they ____ their experience to others.

Instead, marketers now know that their goal is to identify the ____ who are most likely to appreciate a good or service, and to promote that good or service in a way that makes the value clear to the consumer.

Therefore, ____ must know where the potential consumers are, and how to reach them.