2025년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Notice to ____ Apartment Residents

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

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

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

Please ____ that not following this may result in penalties.

____ appreciate your cooperation in maintaining a safe environment.

Nathan ____ the train on Saturday evening.

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

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

A flush of panic spread across his ____

He quickly ____ a train attendant and explained the situation.

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

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

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

____ into his seat, 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 ____ lot of time 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 ____ what they are entitled to receive 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 what they owe to athletes ____ 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 ____ 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 with ____ home vegetable garden.

The garden is a small ecosystem that the grower attempts to keep in ____ 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 ____ insecticides and fence off the patch to stop insects and other animals from consuming the vegetables.

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

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 ____ out the vegetables and wildlife consume the produce.

Commitment is the glue holding together characteristically human forms of social ____

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

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

For example, a taxi driver picks up his clients and transports them to their desired destination ____ they are committed to paying him afterwards for the service, and 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 ____ are willing to accept money as 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 ____ jobs, money, government, scientific collaborations and marriage depend for their origin and stability upon the credibility of commitments.

If the brain has already stored someone's face and name, why do we still end up remembering ____ 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, ____ not being able to remember how or why, or what their name is.

This happens because ____ brain differentiates between familiarity and recall.

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

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

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

Since their start in the early 1950s U.S. television sitcoms have charted many of the social conflicts in U.S. ____ 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 ____ through humour in a way that has helped to make more progressive values more acceptable than previously.

Often a character, usually someone ____ 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, ____ brief scolding from others, or both.

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

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

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

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

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

This new classification system of his led to conflicts with many ____ who followed 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 ____ age of 66 in Italy.

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

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

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

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

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

According to this conventional wisdom, the ceremonies and rituals around food, the social events that supply food with ____ meaning, does not depend on the quality of sensations provided by the food.

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

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

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

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

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

For example, the Harvard researchers who made claims in the late 1960s about ____ problems with dietary 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 England Journal ____ 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 widely implicated as a source ____ the rise in obesity and diabetes.

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

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