2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

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

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

We truly hoped that the ____ would go smoothly.

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

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

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

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

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

____ had finally found the perfect thing for her.

She often 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 ____ new, five-star restaurant downtown.

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

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

____ too bad,” he said quietly.

“I thought that I had found the right ____

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

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

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

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

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

This will enable educators to take advantage of games’ attention commanding capacities ____ 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 political ____

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

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

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

All of this study was necessary, he argued, because ____ 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 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 ____ and consequences of emotion ― is particularly relevant in group settings.

Individuals who are skilled in this domain are able ____ 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 well as the needs of ____ (i.e. cooperate).

In a group conflict situation, for example, a member with a strong ability to understand emotion will be able ____ 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 members ____ 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 Industrial Age changed the relationship among time, ____ and capital.

Factories could produce around the clock, ____ they could do so with greater 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 ____ twenty-four hours per day will produce the most widgets of all.

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

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 became tied to ____ and production.

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

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

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

In this sense, ____ we have 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 ____ inner emotions that may or may not be expressed as we wish.

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

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

____ Enberg was one 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 served as a coach ____ its baseball team.

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

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

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

He later worked for ____ major sports broadcasting stations.

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

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

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

____ 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 involved.

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

It would be ____ and very slow ― as patients recovering from 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 ____ jobs.

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 recently evolved abilities like talking, reading, and writing ____ 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.

Studies in psychology have ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ their desire to achieve their goal and taint the good feeling brought about by winning.

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 making envious comparisons with them, people feel uneasiness, distress, or ____

Feelings of guilt, an emotion generally associated with high ____ 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 competition and preferences for more ____ and altruistic outcomes, such as diminishing the significance of the outcome or sharing the winner’s reward.