2025년 6월 고3 모의고사 변형 (18-29번)

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

The collection of pictures, tools, and historical documents made the gold miners arriving to ____ come to life.

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

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

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

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

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

Jessie was sitting at one of those spots, but her fishing line still hadn’t moved ____ inch.

With a deep sigh, Jessie pulled out the line and cast ____ back into the water.

Her ____ of catching a big fish was fading.

“I can’t believe I haven’t caught a ____ yet.

Not ____ single one,” she thought.

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

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

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

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

Our ability to respond ____ danger has been important for survival, so feeling worried in uncertain situations is normal.

Feelings of worry, which are activated in anticipation of future events, are often ____ in everyday situations.

For example, we may ____ nervous imagining unlikely events, such as a computer crashing during an important presentation.

To some extent, thinking through potential scenarios can be ____

When our worries exceed our control, ____ they cause us unnecessary suffering.

Consider how ____ times you have lost sleep thinking about a terrible situation, which, in the end, did not actually take place.

If ____ situation actually occurred, 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 ____ events you may not experience.

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

____ factors may be random and misleading.

Comparison is ____ source of illusion.

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

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

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

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

____ factors may be involved.

Perhaps you mastered your day’s objective due to especially favorable conditions, such as ____ humidity, when in fact, you really didn’t climb particularly well.

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

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

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

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

Take, ____ instance, a coin-tossing game in which it is decided that throwing three heads in a row constitutes a win.

If a certain player ends up consistently with the desired outcome, defeating all who challenge that player, then we tend to interpret the outcome either as the work of Fortune, or else as clever and ____ cheating on the part of the winning player.

Interpretation is ____ the core of everything we do, think about, 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 ____ reacting, and responding.

These are important intellectual activities in the ____ process, for through them you are supposed to discover and express your opinions.

Writing is ____ invaluable tool for accomplishing these tasks.

Unfortunately, too many times, when class discussion begins, pens ____ pencils go down.

Admittedly, it is considerably more difficult to take notes from discussions than from lectures, for, unlike lectures, discussions tend to be ____ and difficult to follow.

Also, students ____ don’t know how much of what other students are saying is important.

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

But note taking in discussions is ____ only manageable, it is also important.

Note taking helps to keep you active and alert; it allows you to impose some organization on the discussion; and it can prepare you to ____

Food, as we all know, is essential for human ____

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

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

But in the late 18th century this began to ____

Food ____ more than just a life necessity.

Restaurants began to be developed, initially in France but eventually in other nations, as a distinct institution offering people dining choices and table service, the opportunity for socialization and, over time, ____ finer and finer atmosphere.

The rise of restaurants ____ led to a class of diners who prided themselves on being critics of taste, food and cooking.

Brillat-Savarin is probably the best known ____ the ‘culinary philosophers’ 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 Budd Rowe was best ____ for her achievements in science education.

When she was a middle school student, she met Albert Einstein and was inspired by him to study ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take, ____ example, emotions induced by television.

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

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

Most characters are supposed to be types with whom ____ are familiar.

Such closeness and familiarity ____ 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 ____ reduce emotional intensity.

Television entertainment tends to place social problems involving violence in another time and place, letting us ____ 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 ____ the product of the interaction of police and criminals— again, it is removed from the lives of good citizens.