2025년 6월 고3 모의고사 변형 (18-29번)

To Whom It May Concern, I recently visited ____ Lambsdorf History Foundation’s exhibition about the Qukkon Gold Rush.

The collection of pictures, tools, and historical documents made the gold miners arriving ____ Qukkon come to life.

This reminded me of ____ I lived in Qukkon and worked in the mining industry.

Because of this, I’m wondering if there are ____ guide positions available for this exhibition.

I can share my experiences working in the extreme ____ of Qukkon.

Again, I would be thankful ____ you could tell me about the availability of volunteer positions as a guide.

The shoreline was known for having the best ____ spots on the lake.

Jessie was sitting at one of those spots, but ____ fishing line still hadn’t moved an inch.

With a deep sigh, Jessie pulled ____ the line and cast it back into the water.

Her dream of ____ a big fish was fading.

“I can’t believe I haven’t ____ a fish yet.

Not a single one,” ____ thought.

Just as she was about to ____ up and leave, the fishing line suddenly became tense.

Jessie excitedly held onto ____ fishing pole as it began to move around wildly.

Her ____ widened and her heart began to beat faster with excitement.

With a big smile, she could feel that this was the ____ fish she had ever caught!

____ ability to respond to danger has been important for survival, so feeling worried in uncertain situations is normal.

Feelings of worry, which are activated in anticipation of ____ events, are often experienced in everyday situations.

For example, we may feel nervous imagining unlikely events, such as a computer ____ during an important presentation.

To some extent, thinking through potential ____ can be helpful.

When our worries ____ our control, however, they cause us unnecessary suffering.

Consider how many times you have lost sleep thinking about a terrible ____ which, in the end, did not actually take place.

If that situation actually occurred, it only goes to show that ____ about it did nothing to prevent it from happening.

____ is worth making a conscious effort, then, to stop worrying endlessly about events you may not experience.

Basing your self-worth on climbing performance puts ____ at the whim of external factors.

These factors may ____ random and misleading.

Comparison is one source ____ illusion.

Perhaps you felt that you performed well on a certain climb because your ____ was having an off day and found the climbing very difficult.

You found it only slightly difficult and conclude that you were climbing quite ____ when in fact you were climbing no better than usual.

Or, your partner was at ____ top of his game.

You felt weak in comparison, when in fact, objectively, you put in a ____ strong performance.

Environmental ____ may be involved.

Perhaps ____ mastered your day’s objective due to especially favorable conditions, such as low humidity, when in fact, you really didn’t climb particularly well.

____ all these cases, the good or bad feelings you have are not based on something you can take credit for.

If the performances boost your self-worth, the boost is grounded ____ fiction.

Information and ____ are, clearly, not the same thing.

The former refers to uninterpreted data or sensory states, whose probability in a certain situation can be easily measured; the ____ refers to the interpretation of the data or sensory states, including the special kinds of nuances and values that the information entails, or is intended to have, in the given situation.

This applies to any type of information, from alarm signals to sophisticated ____

Take, for instance, a coin-tossing game in which it is decided that throwing three heads in a row ____ a win.

If a certain player ends up consistently with the desired outcome, ____ all who challenge that player, then we tend to interpret the outcome either as the work of Fortune, or else as clever and undetectable cheating on the part of the winning player.

Interpretation is at the core of everything we do, think ____ and feel.

The purpose of class discussions is to encourage you to be an active participant, not ____ passive recorder.

Much of the emphasis in a discussion is on getting students involved ____ thinking, reacting, and responding.

These ____ important intellectual activities in the learning process, for through them you are supposed to discover and express your opinions.

Writing is an invaluable tool for ____ these tasks.

Unfortunately, ____ many times, when class discussion begins, pens and pencils go down.

Admittedly, it ____ considerably more difficult to take notes from discussions than from lectures, for, unlike lectures, discussions tend to be disorganized and difficult to follow.

Also, students usually don’t know how much ____ what other students are saying is important.

And if you are an active participant, it is not easy to take notes and formulate what you ____ to say.

But note taking in discussions ____ not only manageable, it is also important.

Note taking helps to keep you active and alert; it allows you to impose ____ organization on the discussion; and it can prepare you to speak.

Food, as we all know, is ____ for human life.

It also is the basis for several major industries found in many countries around the world such as in agriculture, food processing, food retailing and ____ service.

For millennia, the focus of those involved with food as a human and economic phenomenon ____ on its production, preservation, distribution, pricing and other practical concerns.

____ in the late 18th century this began to change.

Food became more ____ just a life necessity.

Restaurants began to be developed, initially in France but eventually in other nations, ____ a distinct institution offering people dining choices and table service, the opportunity for socialization and, over time, a finer and finer atmosphere.

____ rise of restaurants eventually led to a class of diners who prided themselves on being critics of taste, food and cooking.

Brillat-Savarin is probably the best known of the ‘culinary philosophers’ or, in ____ parlance, a ‘foodie’.

One of Brillat-Savarin’s better known sayings was, “Tell ____ what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.”

Mary ____ Rowe was best known for her achievements in science education.

When she was a middle school student, she met Albert Einstein and was ____ by him to study science.

In 1954, she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a master’s degree ____ zoology.

Then she earned her doctorate degree in science education ____ Stanford University in 1964.

Through her research, Rowe discovered that learning could be improved by increasing teachers’ average ____ time” for students’ responses.

During her career, she directed a science ____ program in Harlem.

She also served as President of the National Science ____ Association.

____ 1990, she published her book, The Process of Knowing.

Throughout her career, she practiced Einstein’s advice, “Science is exploring, and exploring is ____

When she died in 1996, she was remembered as one ____ the leading figures in the field of science education.

Changes in the degree of closeness are ____ important in managing emotional intensity.

Take, for example, emotions induced ____ television.

Closeness and familiarity are ____ in making the fictional environment more real.

Accordingly, most TV shows are set in the present or in a time within the memory of the ____

Most ____ are supposed to be types with whom we are familiar.

Such closeness ____ familiarity make it easier for us to perceive the imaginary story to be a real one.

In other circumstances, ____ as when violence is shown on TV, the closeness variable is used to reduce emotional intensity.

Television entertainment tends to place social problems involving violence in another time and place, letting us watch those fictionalized characters search for solutions ____ our problems in settings safely distanced from our own.

When violence occurs in ____ contemporary setting, it is generally the product of the interaction of police and criminals— again, it is removed from the lives of good citizens.