2025년 3월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Notice to ____ Apartment Residents

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

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

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

____ note that not following this may result in penalties.

We appreciate your cooperation in maintaining ____ safe environment.

Nathan boarded the train on Saturday ____

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

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

____ flush of panic spread across his face.

He quickly approached a train attendant ____ explained the situation.

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

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

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

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

____ who are inclined to spend a lot of time 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 ____ they owe their friends is, to put it mildly, not a very good friend.

Similarly, fans who only think about what athletes owe them without ever thinking about what they owe ____ athletes have failed to take the 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 ____ better fans even as they confidently opine about what athletes owe them are hardly fulfilling their end of the bargain.

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

The garden is a small ecosystem that the grower ____ 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 ____ the patch to stop insects and other animals from consuming the vegetables.

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

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

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

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

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

____ commitments make people willing 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 ____ construction worker performs her job every day because her employer has made a credible commitment to pay her at the end of the month.

Indeed, the taxi driver and the construction worker are willing to accept money as ____ only 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 ____ money, government, scientific collaborations and marriage depend for their origin and stability upon the credibility of commitments.

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

This ____ because the brain has something of a two-tier memory system at work when it comes to retrieving memories, and this 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 ____ someone or something and you know you've done so before.

But beyond that, ____ got nothing; all you can say is this person/thing is already in your memories.

Recall is when you can access the original memory of how and why you know this person; recognition is ____ 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 and in the workplace, children's rights, immigration and multiculturalism, as well as ____ conceptions of the family.

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

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

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

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

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

He displayed a marked interest in science at an early ____

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

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

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

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

Mohs ended his remarkable ____ 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 the flavor of ____ is taking a back seat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knowing the source of funding can ____ important in evaluating 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 ____ part by the sugar industry.

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

Their article shaped a generation of changes in eating patterns that appears to have ____ 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 the ____ process.

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