2025년 6월 고2 모의고사 영어
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 30번
Low oil prices are a good thing, because it means lower energy costs of production for the majority of industries, ____ least the automobile and the logistics industries.
Firms directly benefit from the ____ in their costs of production and provision of services.
This ____ the effect of stimulating the aggregate supply and provides a stimulus for growth.
Conversely, a sudden rise in oil ____ due to a shrink in oil production is never good news, even though it definitely gives a big boost to the energy sector.
A look through the history of oil price fluctuations confirms this notion, as this has been the subject of ____ economic research.
Following an oil price jump of 10 per cent due to a contraction in supply, an ____ (as typified by the US economy) typically sees its output (GDP) slowed by close to 1 percentage point.
For a $15 trillion economy, that is a loss of $150 billion in potential ____ or economic growth.
Conversely, there has never been much concern with oil price decreases following an ____ in its supply.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 31번
We might forget an anecdote about a stranger because it makes few connections with our existing associations, but we ____ forget a piece of gossip about our cousin.
There's one complex network that is larger and quicker to access than ____ others ─ the self.
We've ____ thinking about ourselves in our whole lives.
In fact, there were entire years during junior high when we ____ capable of thinking about much else.
So if a new piece of information has ____ to do with us, it will be more easily and thoroughly processed.
It hits even closer to home than our actual home ─ we can take a vacation away ____ our home, but not from ourselves.
The most ____ communicators find ways to make the abstract personal.
Consider the warning that law schools give to motivate first-year law students concerning the ____ of their program.
____ that "the first-year dropout rate is 33%" is an abstract statistic.
"Look to your ____, look to your right.
One of the three of you ____ be joining us next fall" wakes up the self.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 32번
Steve Jobs used analogy to ____ people to embrace the new technology.
Before computers, people worked in a ____ world.
We ____ paper and pens and physical file folders and so on.
The idea of working in a virtual ____ was radically different.
Or at least seemed radically ____.
What Jobs understood was that a physical office was fundamentally similar to a ____ office.
To win over the masses, Jobs drew strong analogies between the ____ workplace people knew well with the new, unfamiliar virtual workplace.
In the pre-computer workplace, when ideas were written on paper it was called a ____.
____ those documents needed to be stored they were put in a folder.
And those folders were ____ on a desk.
Documents, folders, and desktops are the terms we use in our virtual work because Steve Jobs understood that using familiar ____ would make the new technology easier to understand.
The parallels between the ____ and virtual workplace now seem obvious.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 33번
Turtle ____ have, it seems, evolved to crawl toward the light.
For millions of years this was a highly rational and effective strategy because the light on a dark beach represented the reflection of the moon and stars on the ____ surface.
Following the lights led baby turtles back ____ to the sea.
The ____ started when humans began building beachfront homes and sparkling hotels on the other side of the beach.
Now after hatching, turtles heading for the brightest ____ lights were being guided straight into traffic.
Are self-destructive sea ____ naturally irrational?
Yes, in the modern world. But there's a deeper ____.
Turtles are basing their decisions on simple cues that were perfectly rational for their ancestors; ____ days, however, their evolved decision‐making mechanisms are being blinded by modern lights.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 34번
Sensory organs are the only channels of ____ between the brain and the outside world.
Simply put, the brain is ____ designed to sense on its own.
For instance, an exposed brain would neither sense ____ shining on it nor feel something touching it.
In fact, patients are ____ kept awake during brain surgery, which can help a surgeon isolate specific regions of the brain.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle recognized this characteristic of the brain over 2,000 years ago when he said, "Nothing is in the ____ that does not pass through the senses."
This concept ____ be seen clearly when volunteers are blind‐folded and placed in the warm water of a sensory deprivation tank.
They soon experience visual, auditory, and tactile (touch) hallucinations, as well as ____ thought patterns.
From these experiments and others, it is apparent that we need constant input from our senses to carry out ____ that give us personality and intellect.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 35번
The writer and zoologist Desmond Morris observed that our feet communicate exactly what we think and feel more honestly ____ any other part of our bodies.
Why are the feet and legs such ____ reflectors of our sentiments?
For millions of years, long before ____ spoke, our legs and feet reacted to environmental threats (e.g., hot sand, illtempered lions) instantaneously, without the need for conscious thought.
Our limbic brains ____ sure that our feet and legs reacted as needed by either ceasing motion, running away, or kicking at a potential threat.
This survival regimen, retained from our ancestral heritage, has served us ____ and continues to do so today.
In ____, these age-old reactions are still so hardwired in us that when we are presented with something dangerous or even disagreeable, our feet and legs still react as they did in prehistoric times.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 36번
The transition from an oral culture, in which knowledge was handed down through stories, songs, and apprenticeships, to a literate one, based on the written word, was held back for centuries by the lack of ____ writing material.
Stone and clay tablets were used, but they were prone to fracture and were bulky and ____ to transport.
Wood ____ from splitting and is susceptible to decay.
Wall paintings are static and space is ____.
The ____ of paper, said to be one of the four great inventions of the Chinese, solved these problems, but it wasn't until the Romans replaced the scroll with the codex ─ or, as we call it now, the book ─ that the material reached its full potential.
That was two thousand years ago, and it is ____ a dominant form of the written word.
That paper, a much ____ material than either stone or wood, won out as the guardian of the written word is a remarkable materials story.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 37번
A reason for a conclusion is very unlikely to ____ in a single claim.
No matter how we ____ state it in short-hand, it is, analytically, a complex interaction of many ideas and implications.
The reason ____ be broken down into a chain of more precise premises.
For example, the claim that 'university education should be free for all Australians' might be supported by the ____ that 'the economy benefits from a well‐educated Australian population'.
But is our analysis of the situation clearly expressed in ____ one statement?
Hardly. The conclusion is about universities and free education, while the reason introduces some new ideas: economic ____ and a well-educated population.
While the link between these two ideas and the conclusion might seem obvious, the purpose of reasoning is to avoid assuming the 'obvious' by carefully working through the ____ between the various ideas in the initial statement of our reason.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 38번
The word "migration" is almost always reported in the popular media and even in scientific literature as a ____ or a crisis.
For example, migrants are assumed to overcrowd ____, clog up labor markets, and increase poverty.
The other questionable assumption is that most migration is involuntary ─ people ____ natural or man-made disasters.
The ____, however, is more complex, and many migrants are simply seeking greater economic opportunity.
Of course migration can and does create ____ and economic problems.
But ____ can also be a solution for many preexisting problems.
For example, out-migration generally redistributes workers from places of labor surplus to areas where there is ____ demand or more opportunity.
Migration is generally selective of persons who are younger, healthier, more flexible, and more willing to endure hardship in ____ of a better life relative to their prospects in their places of origin.
Most research that examines long‐term outcomes of migration, including remittances and intergenerational mobility, finds positive "____" effects on places of origin and destination.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 39번
The big problem with money created by the government is that those who run the government always face the temptation to create more ____ and spend it.
Whether among ancient kings or modern ____, this has happened again and again over the centuries, leading to inflation and the many economic and social problems that follow from inflation.
For this ____, many countries have preferred using gold, silver, or some other material that is inherently limited in supply, as money.
It is a way of depriving governments of the power to expand the money supply to ____ levels.
Gold has long been considered ____ for this purpose, since the supply of gold in the world usually cannot be increased rapidly.
When paper money is convertible into gold whenever the individual chooses to do so, then the money is said to be "____ up" by gold.
This expression is misleading only if we imagine that the value of the gold is somehow transferred to the paper money, when in fact the real point is that the gold simply limits the amount of paper money that ____ be issued.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 40번
The study of ____ and decision making is now of considerable importance.
This involves the application of various tools ____ by neuroscience.
One important stream of the literature examines people with brain damage and how damage to particular parts of the brain known to be responsible for particular cognitive functions impacts on ____ making.
One example of this research is the ____ of Antonio Damasio, who finds that when the emotional part of the brain is damaged, this actually reduces the efficacy of decision making.
Good decisions are a product of the emotional ____ of the brain working in conjunction with the deliberative part.
This contradicts the assumptions of ____ economics, where emotions play a negative role in the decision‐making process.
Here it is assumed that decision making can be modeled as being generated in a stoic, unemotional fashion, and that's ____ decisions tend to be optimal.
But the evidence suggests that emotions actually play an important and, often, a positive role in decision ____.
The brain's emotional part working in relation with its deliberative part ____ the effectiveness of decision making, which counters the ideas about emotions in the decision‐making process of traditional economics.
25년 6월 고2 모의고사 41-42번
Shoppers confronted with the choice of thirty different varieties of gourmet chocolates are ____ likely to walk away without buying any, compared with when they are presented with only half a dozen choices.
If ____ are given a free trip to Paris, they are happy.
If you give ____ a free trip to Hawaii, they are happy.
But if you ____ them the choice between the two destinations, they are less happy, no matter what they choose.
____ might choice be so disruptive?
The reason is that choice ____ us to make comparisons and acknowledge relative disadvantages.
____ who choose Paris complain that it doesn't have the ocean and those who choose Hawaii regret that it doesn't have the museums.
Psychologist Barry Schwartz calls this the 'tyranny of choice' because rather than providing freedom, it actually ____ our decision‐making.
He argues that wider choice increases unhappiness because we worry that we are going to make the wrong ____ and so we get stressed about trying to process all the comparisons in an effort to get it right.
This both increases our fear of making the wrong choice and raises expectations that we ____ be able to get the best choice.
Having made the choice, we then start to regret, ____ whether it was the right one.