2025년 6월 고3 모의고사 변형 (18-29번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ____ caught a fish yet.

____ a single one,” she thought.

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

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

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

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

Our ability to respond to danger ____ 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 ____, we may feel nervous imagining unlikely events, such as a computer crashing during an important presentation.

To some extent, thinking through potential scenarios ____ 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 situation, which, in the end, ____ not actually take place.

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

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

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

These factors may be ____ and misleading.

Comparison is ____ source of illusion.

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

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

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

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

____ factors 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 climb ____ well.

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

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

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

The former refers to uninterpreted data or sensory states, whose probability in a certain situation can be easily ____; the latter 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 ____ statements.

Take, for instance, a coin-tossing game in ____ it is decided that throwing three heads in a row constitutes 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 ____ is to encourage you to be an active participant, not a passive recorder.

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

These are important intellectual ____ 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, ____ many times, when class discussion begins, pens and pencils go down.

Admittedly, it is considerably more ____ 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 ____ other students are saying is important.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Food became ____ than just a life necessity.

Restaurants began to be developed, initially in France but eventually in other ____, 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 led to a class of diners ____ prided themselves on being critics of taste, food and cooking.

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

One of Brillat-Savarin’s better known sayings was, “Tell me ____ 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 ____, she met Albert Einstein and was inspired by him to study science.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take, for example, emotions ____ by television.

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

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

Most characters are ____ 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 place social problems involving violence in another ____ 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 ____ and criminals— again, it is removed from the lives of good citizens.