2025년 6월 고3 모의고사 변형 (18-29번)

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

The collection of ____, tools, and historical documents made the gold miners arriving to Qukkon come to life.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

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

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

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

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

Her dream of ____ a big fish was fading.

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

Not a single ____,” she thought.

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

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

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

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

Our ____ 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 future events, are often experienced in everyday ____.

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

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

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

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

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

It is worth ____ 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 ____ may be random and misleading.

____ is one source of illusion.

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

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

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

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

Environmental ____ may be involved.

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

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

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

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

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 ____ type of information, from alarm signals to sophisticated statements.

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

If a certain player ends up consistently with the desired outcome, defeating all who challenge that player, ____ 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.

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

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

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

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

Writing is an ____ tool for accomplishing these tasks.

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

Admittedly, it is ____ 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 of what ____ students are saying is important.

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

But note taking in discussions is ____ only manageable, it is also important.

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

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

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

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

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

____ became more than just a life necessity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Throughout her career, she practiced Einstein’s advice, “____ is exploring, and exploring is fun.”

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

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

Take, for example, emotions ____ by television.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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