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The ____ of pictures, tools, and historical documents made the gold miners arriving to Qukkon come to life.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 volunteer guide positions ____ for this exhibition.

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

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

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

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

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

Her dream of catching a big fish was ____.

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

Not a ____ one,” she thought.

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

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

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

With a ____ smile, 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 ____ in everyday situations.

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

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

When our worries exceed our ____, 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 worrying about it did nothing to ____ it from happening.

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

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

____ factors may be random and misleading.

Comparison is one ____ of illusion.

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

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

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

You felt weak in comparison, ____ in fact, objectively, you 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, ____ in fact, you really didn’t climb particularly well.

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

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

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

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

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

Take, for ____, a coin-tossing game in which it is decided that throwing 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, then we tend to interpret the outcome ____ 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, ____ about, and feel.

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

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

These are ____ 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, too ____ times, when class discussion begins, pens and pencils go down.

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

Also, students usually don’t know ____ much of 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 is ____ only manageable, it is also important.

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

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

It also is the basis for several major industries found in many countries ____ the world such as in agriculture, food processing, 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, ____ and other practical concerns.

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

Food became more than just a ____ necessity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____, for example, emotions induced by television.

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

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

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

Such ____ and familiarity make 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 variable is used to reduce ____ intensity.

Television entertainment tends to ____ social problems involving violence in another time and place, letting us watch those fictionalized 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 product of the interaction of police and criminals— again, it is removed ____ the lives of good citizens.