2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

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

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

We ____ hoped that the race would go smoothly.

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

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

We hope you ____ 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 ____ be a new way to spend time with Amy.

He had ____ found the perfect thing for her.

She ____ told him that she liked to go to places she had 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 asked for a reservation for ____.

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

____ too 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 catch and hold attention in a way that few ____ can.

And yet once they ____ 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 easily ignoring a valuable tool that ____ be used to enhance productivity instead of derailing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All of this study was necessary, he argued, because architects who ____ aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their plans, while those 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 emotion vocabulary and to understand the causes and ____ of emotion ― is particularly relevant in group settings.

Individuals who are skilled in this domain are ____ to express emotions, 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 needs as ____ as the needs of others (i.e. cooperate).

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

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

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

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

Factories could produce around the clock, and they could do so with ____ speed and volume than 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 produce the most widgets of ____.

As such, 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 ____.

Industrialization raised 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 ____ 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 ____, but because it expresses, develops, expands, and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was born in ____ in 1935.

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

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

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

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

He later worked for other major sports ____ stations.

He made his last live broadcast in 2016 and died the following year at the ____ of 82.

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

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

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

Imagine if we ____ 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 ____ a brain injury affecting the motor system know.

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

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

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

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

____ in psychology 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 good relationships with ____.

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 good feeling brought about by ____.

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

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

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

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