2025년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Notice to Hilltop ____ Residents

In accordance with fire safety regulations, it is essential to keep all hallways ____ 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 ____ that any personal items placed in the hallways be removed by Monday, April 14th.

Please ____ that not following this may result in penalties.

We appreciate your cooperation in ____ a safe environment.

Nathan boarded the train on Saturday ____.

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

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

A flush of panic ____ across his face.

He quickly ____ a train attendant and explained the situation.

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

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

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

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

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

One who thinks only about what they are entitled to ____ from their friends without ever giving a moment's thought to what they 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 ____ they owe to athletes have failed to take the fan/athlete relationship all that seriously.

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

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

The garden is a ____ ecosystem that the grower attempts to keep 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 ____ and other animals from consuming the vegetables.

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

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

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

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

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

Moreover, ____ make people willing to perform actions that they 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, and a ____ 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 as payment only because a network of other agents (notably the central bank) is committed to taking ____ measures to sustain the currency in question.

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

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

This is because the brain ____ 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 their name is.

This happens ____ the brain differentiates between familiarity and recall.

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

But beyond that, you've got nothing; all you can say is this ____ is already 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. ____ sitcoms have charted many of the social conflicts in U.S. society: civil rights, women's rights in 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 has helped to make more ____ values more acceptable than previously.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These can be understood ____ 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 of ____ social relations.

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

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

All experts are not the same, nor do they ____ their work to the 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 ____ fat, leading the nation away from perceiving sugar as one of the main causes in health problems, were funded in part by the sugar industry.

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

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

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

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