2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

Dear Rosydale City Marathon Racers, We are really grateful to all of you who have ____ up for the 10th Rosydale City Marathon that was scheduled for this coming Saturday at 10 a.m.

Unfortunately, as you may already know, the weather forecast ____ that there is going to be a downpour throughout the race day.

We truly ____ that the race would go smoothly.

However, it is likely that the heavy ____ will make the roads too slippery and dangerous for the racers to run safely.

As a result, we have decided to ____ the race.

We ____ you understand and we promise to hold another race in the near future.

It was ____ Day on Friday and Peter was certain that his wife, Amy, was going to love his surprise.

Peter had spent a long time searching online for an event that would be a new way to spend ____ with Amy.

He had finally ____ the perfect thing for her.

She often told him that she liked to go to places she ____ never visited before, and he was absolutely sure that she would love going to the new, five-star restaurant downtown.

He smiled as he called the restaurant and ____ for a reservation for Friday.

Unfortunately, his smile quickly disappeared when he was told that the ____ was fully reserved.

“That’s ____ bad,” he said quietly.

“I thought that I had found the right ____.”

We almost universally accept that playing video ____ is at best a pleasant break from a student’s learning and more often what prevents a student from accomplishing their goals.

Games ____ and hold attention in a way that few things can.

And ____ once they have our focus, they rarely seem to offer anything meaningful to help students grow in their lives outside the games.

While this may be true for many games, we are too ____ ignoring a valuable tool that could be used to enhance productivity instead of derailing it.

Rather, it is desirable that we develop ____ that connect to the learning outcomes we want for our students.

This will enable educators to take advantage of games’ attention commanding capacities and ____ our students to enjoy their games while learning.

The position of the architect rose during the Roman ____, as architecture symbolically became a particularly important political statement.

Cicero classed the architect with the physician and the ____ and Vitruvius spoke of “so great a profession as this.”

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a practicing architect during the rule of Augustus Caesar, recognized that ____ requires both practical and theoretical knowledge, and he listed the disciplines he felt the aspiring architect should master:

literature and writing, draftsmanship, mathematics, history, philosophy, music, ____, law, and astronomy ― a curriculum that still has much to recommend it.

All of this study was necessary, he argued, because architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their plans, while ____ who have relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously “hunting the shadow, not the substance.”

The ability to understand emotions ― to have a diverse ____ vocabulary and to understand the causes and consequences of emotion ― is particularly relevant in group settings.

Individuals who are skilled in this domain are able to express ____, feelings and moods accurately and thus, may facilitate clear communication between co-workers.

Furthermore, they may be more likely to act in ways that accommodate their own ____ as well as the needs of others (i.e. cooperate).

In a group conflict situation, for example, a member with a strong ability to understand emotion ____ be able to express how he feels about the problem and why he feels this way.

He also ____ be able to take the perspective of the other group members and understand why they are reacting in a certain manner.

Appreciation of differences creates an arena for open communication and promotes ____ conflict resolution and improved group functioning.

The arrival of the ____ Age changed the relationship among time, labor, and capital.

Factories could produce around the clock, and they could do so with greater speed and volume ____ ever before.

A machine that runs twelve hours a day will produce more widgets than one that runs for only eight hours per day ― and a machine that runs twenty-four hours per day will ____ the most widgets of all.

As ____, at many factories, the workday is divided into eight-hour shifts, so that there will always be people on hand to keep the widget machines humming.

Industrialization ____ the potential value of every single work hour ― the more hours you worked, the more widgets you produced, and the more money you made ― and thus wages became tied to effort and production.

Labor, previously guided by harvest cycles, became clock-oriented, and society ____ to reorganize around new principles of productivity.

The selfie resonates not because it is new, but because it expresses, ____, expands, and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait.

The self-portrait showed to others the ____ of the person depicted.

In this sense, what we have come to call our own “image” ― the interface of the way we think we look and the ____ others see us ― is the first and fundamental object of global visual culture.

The selfie depicts the drama of our own daily ____ of ourselves in tension with our inner emotions that may or may not be expressed as we wish.

At each stage of the self-portrait’s expansion, ____ and more people have been able to depict themselves.

Today’s young, urban, networked majority has reworked the ____ of the self-portrait to make the selfie into the first visual signature of the new era.

Dick Enberg was ____ of America’s most beloved sports broadcasters.

He was born in Michigan in ____.

In the early 1960s, he became an assistant professor at San Fernando Valley State College, where he also ____ as a coach of its baseball team.

Afterwards, he began a full-time ____ career in Los Angeles.

In 1973, he became the first U.S. sportscaster ever to visit ____.

He joined NBC Sports in 1975 and remained with the network for about 25 years, covering ____ big events as the Olympics.

He later worked for other major sports ____ stations.

He made his last live broadcast in ____ and died the following year at the age of 82.

He served as Chairman of the American Sportscaster Association for more than ____ decades.

Enberg was also a best-selling writer and won Emmy ____ as a sportscaster, a writer, and a producer.

Think of yourself. When you decide to get up and get a drink of water, for example, you don’t consciously organize or consider the host of steps ____.

____ if we had to consider every single muscle that needed to be contracted or relaxed just to stand up and walk.

It would be tiresome and very slow ― as patients recovering from a ____ injury affecting the motor system know.

The autopilot parts of our brain do it for us automatically, freeing up our conscious mind for ____ important jobs.

It is the older parts of our brain that support ____ automatic processes that allow us to move, hear, see, and use many of our social skills.

More recently evolved abilities like ____, reading, and writing are far less automated.

So, most of the time, what you are perceiving, feeling, or thinking is based on a ____ crude and fast analysis that happens completely without your awareness.

Studies in ____ have reported cases in which competitive incentives resulted in lower task effort, and their focus was on the psychological underpinnings of the reduction in motivation.

For example, competition presents an inevitable conflict between the motivation to achieve one’s personal goal and the desire to maintain ____ relationships with others.

When the maintenance of interpersonal relationships is important, with their counterparts in particular or with others generally, competitors experience an internal conflict that can harm their desire to achieve their goal and taint the ____ feeling brought about by winning.

Exline and Lobel found that the perception of oneself as a target for upward social comparison often ____ people uncomfortable.

When they believe that others are making ____ comparisons with them, people feel uneasiness, distress, or sorrow.

Feelings of guilt, an emotion generally associated with high motivation for ____, lead to weaker motivation and performance in the pursuit of competitive goals.

Consequences of this emotional state include lower task motivation in a competition and preferences for ____ cooperative and altruistic outcomes, such as diminishing the significance of the outcome or sharing the winner’s reward.