2025년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

____ to Hilltop Apartment Residents

In accordance with fire safety regulations, ____ is essential to keep all hallways free of personal belongings such as bicycles, boxes, and small furniture.

Hallways serve as critical evacuation routes during emergencies, and anything left there could block the way and pose ____ safety risks.

To ensure the safety of all residents, we request that any personal items placed in the ____ be removed by Monday, April 14th.

Please note that not following this ____ result in penalties.

We appreciate your cooperation ____ maintaining a safe environment.

Nathan boarded the ____ on Saturday evening.

As he made his way to his seat, he found someone already ____ there.

Confused, ____ checked his ticket and realized his mistake ― it was for Sunday, not Saturday!

A flush of panic spread across ____ face.

He quickly approached a train attendant and explained the ____

____ there anything I can do to resolve this?" Nathan asked.

"Don't worry, sir. We still ____ seats available," the attendant said with a reassuring smile.

Nathan exchanged his old ticket for a new one, ____ worries melting away.

Settling into his seat, he let out a deep breath, feeling the ____ in his shoulders ease as the train began to move.

Fans who are inclined to spend a lot of time thinking about what athletes owe them ____ fans should also think about the corresponding obligations that fans might have as fans.

One who thinks only about what they are entitled to receive from their friends without ever giving a moment's thought to what ____ owe their friends is, to put it mildly, not a very good friend.

Similarly, fans who only think about what athletes owe them without ever thinking about what they owe to athletes have failed to take the fan/athlete ____ all that seriously.

As in nearly every other area of human life, whatever special rights fans may possess are limited by a corresponding ____ of obligations, and fans who never think about how they can be better fans even as they confidently opine about what athletes owe them are hardly fulfilling their end of the bargain.

The concept of ecosystem states should be familiar to anyone ____ a home vegetable garden.

The garden is a small ecosystem that the grower attempts to ____ in a specific state, namely the maximization of fruit and vegetable production.

To achieve this, the grower is almost always intervening in the dynamics of the ecosystem; they remove unwanted plants that begin to grow and perhaps spray insecticides and fence off the patch to stop insects and other animals from consuming the ____

Since maximizing vegetable growth is an inherently unstable state for the ecosystem, ____ grower is effectively keeping the ball on a slope.

If the grower stops intervening, even for a day, the ecosystem, that small patch of ground, will naturally begin to shift to a more ____ state.

Vegetables may still grow, but yield will almost certainly be lower as other plants crowd out the ____ and wildlife consume the produce.

Commitment is the glue ____ together characteristically human forms of social life.

Commitments make individuals' behavior predictable in the face of fluctuations in their desires and interests, thereby ____ the planning and coordination of joint actions involving multiple agents.

Moreover, commitments make people willing to perform actions that ____ would not otherwise perform.

For example, a taxi driver picks up his clients and transports them to their desired destination because they are committed to paying him afterwards for the service, ____ a construction worker performs her job every day because her employer has made a credible commitment to pay her at the end of the month.

Indeed, the taxi driver and the construction worker are willing to accept money ____ payment only because a network of other agents (notably the central bank) is committed to taking various measures to sustain the currency in question.

Thus, social objects and institutions such as jobs, money, ____ scientific collaborations and marriage depend for their origin and stability upon the credibility of commitments.

If ____ brain has already stored someone's face and name, why do we still end up remembering one and not the other?

This is because the brain has something of a two-tier memory system at work when it comes to retrieving memories, and this gives rise to a common yet infuriating sensation: recognising someone, but not being able to remember how or why, or what ____ name is.

This happens because the brain differentiates between familiarity ____ recall.

To clarify, familiarity (or recognition) is when you encounter someone or something and you know you've ____ so before.

But beyond that, you've got nothing; all you can say is this person/thing is ____ in your memories.

Recall is when you can access the original ____ of how and why you know this person; recognition is just flagging up the fact that the memory exists.

Since their start in the early 1950s U.S. television sitcoms have charted many of the social conflicts in U.S. society: civil rights, women's rights ____ the home and in the workplace, children's rights, immigration and multiculturalism, as well as evolving conceptions of the family.

Each of these issues has been addressed through humour in a way that ____ helped to make more progressive values more acceptable than previously.

Often a character, usually someone marked as a bigot, resisted one or ____ of these developments and was then made to appear ridiculous.

They ____ cut down either through their own stupidity, a brief scolding from others, or both.

In this way, the humour of sitcoms acted as a cost-effective means to encourage acceptance of a more ____ and tolerant society.

Friedrich Mohs, a wellknown mineralogist, was born on January 29, 1773, ____ Gernrode, Germany.

He displayed a marked interest in ____ at an early age.

He studied ____ mathematics, and physics at the University of Halle and also studied mineralogy at the Mining Academy.

In his late twenties, he went to Austria ____ classified minerals by their physical attributes.

This new classification system of his led to conflicts with many mineralogists who ____ the conventional methods.

In 1812, ____ was appointed Professor of Mineralogy at the Joanneum, where he developed the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness.

Mohs ended his remarkable career at the Mining University in Leoben and died at the ____ of 66 in Italy.

The prominence of the social dimension in food writing might suggest that the flavor of food is taking ____ back seat.

I suspect that most people view flavor as of secondary importance ____ social settings where food is served.

Although our social gatherings coalesce around ____ the meaning of these gatherings does not seem to depend on flavor.

Flavor assisting with the narrow purpose of filling the belly, and once that is accomplished it ____ the backdrop for whatever social dynamics characterize the gathering.

These can ____ understood independently of the flavor of the food on offer, the appreciation of which is understood to be personal and subjective.

According to this conventional wisdom, the ceremonies and rituals around food, the social events that supply food with its meaning, does ____ depend on the quality of sensations provided by the food.

To focus excessively on flavor is to miss the larger significance ____ these social relations.

There are reasons why ____ is not fully trusted and why healthy skepticism and critical thinking are essential.

In ____ of professional standards, claims of objectivity, and the peer review process, the conduct of science can be biased.

All experts are not the same, nor do they submit their work to ____ same scrutiny.

Knowing the source of funding can be important in evaluating ____ claims.

For example, the Harvard researchers who made claims in the late 1960s about the problems with dietary fat, leading the nation away from perceiving sugar as one ____ the main causes in health problems, were funded in part by the sugar industry.

The authors did not reveal their funding source to ____ New England Journal of Medicine, where their influential article appeared.

Their article shaped a generation of changes in eating patterns that appears to have fostered higher use of sugar, now ____ implicated as a source of the rise in obesity and diabetes.

Stories such as this ____ fuel suspicion ─ but also lead to further safeguards in the scientific process.

Funding disclosures, although not required five decades ____ have since been made compulsory.