2025년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Notice to Hilltop ____ Residents

In accordance with fire safety regulations, it is essential to keep all hallways free of personal belongings such ____ bicycles, boxes, and small furniture.

Hallways serve as critical evacuation routes during emergencies, and anything left there ____ block the way and pose serious safety risks.

To ensure the safety of ____ residents, we request that any personal items placed in the hallways be removed by Monday, April 14th.

Please note that not following this may result ____ penalties.

We appreciate your cooperation in ____ a safe environment.

Nathan boarded the ____ on Saturday evening.

As he made his way to his seat, he found someone ____ sitting there.

Confused, he checked his ticket ____ realized his mistake ― it was for Sunday, not Saturday!

A ____ of panic spread across his face.

He quickly approached a train attendant and ____ the situation.

"Is there ____ I can do to resolve this?" Nathan asked.

"Don't worry, ____ We still have seats available," the attendant said with a reassuring smile.

Nathan exchanged his old ____ for a new one, his worries melting away.

Settling into his seat, he let out a deep breath, feeling the tension in his shoulders ease as the train began ____ move.

Fans who are inclined to spend a lot of ____ thinking about what athletes owe them as fans should also think about the corresponding obligations that fans might have as fans.

One who thinks only about what they are entitled to receive from their friends without ever giving a moment's thought to what they owe their friends is, to ____ it mildly, not a very good friend.

Similarly, fans who only think about what athletes owe them without ever thinking about what they owe to athletes have failed to take ____ fan/athlete relationship all that seriously.

As in nearly every other area of human life, whatever special rights fans may possess are limited by a corresponding set of obligations, and fans who never think about how they can be better fans even as they confidently opine about what athletes ____ them are hardly fulfilling their end of the bargain.

The concept of ecosystem states should be familiar to anyone with a ____ vegetable garden.

The garden is a small ecosystem ____ the grower attempts to keep in a specific state, namely the maximization of fruit and vegetable production.

To achieve this, the grower is almost always intervening in the dynamics of the ecosystem; they remove unwanted plants that begin to grow and perhaps spray insecticides and fence off the patch to stop insects and other animals from consuming ____ vegetables.

Since maximizing vegetable growth is an inherently unstable state for the ecosystem, ____ grower is effectively keeping the ball on a slope.

____ the grower stops intervening, even for a day, the ecosystem, that small patch of ground, will naturally begin to shift to a more stable state.

____ may still grow, but yield will almost certainly be lower as other plants crowd out the vegetables and wildlife consume the produce.

Commitment is the ____ holding together characteristically human forms of social life.

Commitments make individuals' ____ predictable in the face of fluctuations in their desires and interests, thereby facilitating the planning and coordination of joint actions involving multiple agents.

Moreover, commitments make people ____ to perform actions that they would not otherwise perform.

For example, a taxi driver picks up his clients and transports them to their desired destination because they are committed to paying him afterwards for the service, and a construction worker performs her job every day because her employer has made a credible commitment to pay ____ at the end of the month.

Indeed, the taxi driver and the construction worker are willing to accept money as payment ____ because a network of other agents (notably the central bank) is committed to taking various measures to sustain the currency in question.

Thus, social objects and institutions such as jobs, money, government, scientific collaborations and ____ depend for their origin and stability upon the credibility of commitments.

If the brain has ____ stored someone's face and name, why do we still end up remembering one and not the other?

This is because the brain has something of a two-tier memory system at work when it comes to retrieving memories, and ____ gives rise to a common yet infuriating sensation: recognising someone, but not being able to remember how or why, or what their name is.

____ happens because the brain differentiates between familiarity and recall.

To clarify, familiarity (or recognition) is when you encounter someone or something and you know you've done ____ before.

But beyond that, you've got ____ all you can say is this person/thing is already in your memories.

Recall is when you can access the original ____ of how and why you know this person; recognition is just flagging up the fact that the memory exists.

Since their start in the early 1950s U.S. television sitcoms have charted many of the social conflicts in U.S. society: civil rights, women's rights in the home ____ in the workplace, children's rights, immigration and multiculturalism, as well as evolving conceptions of the family.

Each of these issues has been addressed through ____ in a way that has helped to make more progressive values more acceptable than previously.

Often ____ character, usually someone marked as a bigot, resisted one or more of these developments and was then made to appear ridiculous.

They were ____ down either through their own stupidity, a brief scolding from others, or both.

In this way, the humour of sitcoms acted as a cost-effective means to encourage acceptance of ____ more pluralistic and tolerant society.

Friedrich Mohs, a wellknown mineralogist, ____ born on January 29, 1773, in Gernrode, Germany.

He displayed a marked ____ in science at an early age.

He studied chemistry, mathematics, and physics at the University ____ Halle and also studied mineralogy at the Mining Academy.

In his late twenties, he went to Austria ____ classified minerals by their physical attributes.

This new classification system of his led to conflicts with many ____ who followed the conventional methods.

In 1812, Mohs was appointed Professor of Mineralogy at the Joanneum, where he developed the ____ Scale of Mineral Hardness.

Mohs ____ his remarkable career at the Mining University in Leoben and died at the age of 66 in Italy.

The prominence of the social dimension in food writing might suggest that ____ flavor of food is taking a back seat.

____ suspect that most people view flavor as of secondary importance in social settings where food is served.

Although our social gatherings coalesce around food, the meaning of these gatherings ____ not seem to depend on flavor.

Flavor assisting with the narrow purpose of filling ____ belly, and once that is accomplished it provides the backdrop for whatever social dynamics characterize the gathering.

These can be understood independently of ____ flavor of the food on offer, the appreciation of which is understood to be personal and subjective.

According to this conventional wisdom, the ceremonies and rituals around food, the social events that supply food with its meaning, does not depend on ____ quality of sensations provided by the food.

To focus excessively on flavor is to miss the ____ significance of these social relations.

There are ____ why science is not fully trusted and why healthy skepticism and critical thinking are essential.

In spite of professional standards, claims of objectivity, and the peer review process, the conduct ____ science can be biased.

All experts ____ not the same, nor do they submit their work to the same scrutiny.

Knowing the source of funding can be important in ____ scientific claims.

For example, the Harvard researchers who made claims in the late 1960s about the problems with dietary fat, leading the nation away from perceiving sugar as one of the main causes in health problems, were funded in ____ by the sugar industry.

The ____ did not reveal their funding source to the New England Journal of Medicine, where their influential article appeared.

Their article shaped a generation of changes ____ eating patterns that appears to have fostered higher use of sugar, now widely implicated as a source of the rise in obesity and diabetes.

Stories such as this one fuel suspicion ─ but also lead to further safeguards in ____ scientific process.

Funding disclosures, although not required five decades ago, have since been made ____