2024년 10월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To the State Education Department, I am writing with regard to the state's ____ for the construction project at Fort Montgomery High School.

Our school needs additional spaces to provide a fully functional Art and Library Media Center to serve our students in a more meaningful ____.

Despite submitting all required documentation for funding to your department in April 2024, we have not ____ received any notification from your department.

A delay in the process can ____ considerable consequences related to the school's budgetary constraints and schedule.

Therefore, in order to proceed with our project, we request you notify us of the review result ____ the submitted documentation.

I look forward to hearing from ____.

As I waited outside the locker room after a hard‐fought basketball game, the ____ called out to me, "David, walk with me."

I figured he was going to tell me ____ important.

He was going to select me to be the captain of the ____, the leader I had always wanted to be.

My heart was ____ with anticipation.

But ____ his next words hit my ears, everything changed.

"We're going to have to ____ you home," he said coldly.

"I don't think you are going to make it." I ____ believe his decision.

I tried to hold it together, but inside I was ____ apart.

A car would be waiting tomorrow morning to take me ____.

And ____ like that, it was over.

For ____ of us, making time for exercise is a continuing challenge.

Between work commitments and family obligations, it often ____ like there's no room in our packed schedules for a dedicated workout.

But what if the workout came to you, ____ in the midst of your daily routine?

That's where the beauty of ____ mini-exercises into household chores comes into play.

____ be realistic; chores are inevitable.

Whether it's washing dishes or taking out the trash, these tasks are an essential ____ of daily life.

But rather than viewing chores as purely obligatory activities, why not seize these moments as ____ for physical activity?

For instance, ____ squats or engage in some wall push-ups as you wait for your morning kettle to boil.

Incorporating quick ____ into your daily chores can improve your health.

When we see something, we naturally and automatically break it up into ____, colors, and concepts that we have learned through education.

We ____ what we see through the lens of everything we know.

We ____ memories rather than retrieving the video from memory.

This is a ____ trait.

It's a more efficient way to store information ─ a bit like an optimal image ____ algorithm such as JPG, rather than storing a raw bitmap image file.

People who lack this ability and remember everything in perfect detail struggle to ____, learn, and make connections between what they have learned.

But representing the world as abstract ideas and features comes at a cost of seeing the ____ as it is.

Instead, we see the world through our assumptions, motivations, and past ____.

The discovery that our memories are reconstructed through abstract representations rather than played back like a ____ completely undermined the legal primacy of eyewitness testimony.

____ is not believing.

In his Cornell laboratory, David Dunning conducted experimental tests of eyewitness testimony and found evidence that a ____ deliberation of facial features and a detailed discussion of selection procedures can actually be a sign of an inaccurate identification.

It's when people find themselves unable to explain why they recognize the person, saying things like "his face just popped out at me," that they tend to be accurate ____ often.

Sometimes our first, immediate, automatic reaction to a situation is the truest interpretation of what our ____ is telling us.

That very first impression can ____ be more accurate about the world than the deliberative, reasoned self-narrative can be.

In his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell describes a variety of studies in psychology and behavioral economics that demonstrate the superior performance of ____ unconscious first guesses compared to logical step-by-step justifications for a decision.

Many forms of research lead naturally to quantitative ____.

A study of happiness might measure the number of times someone smiles during an interaction, and a study of memory might measure the number of items an individual can recall after ____, five, and ten minutes.

Asking people ____ many times in a year they are sad will also yield quantitative data, but it might not be reliable.

Respondents' recollections may be inaccurate, and their ____ of 'sad' could vary widely.

But asking "How many times in the past year were you ____ enough to call in sick to work?" prompts a concrete answer.

Similarly, instead of asking people to rate how bad a procrastinator they are, ask, "How many of your utility bills are you currently late in ____, even though you can afford to pay them?"

Questions that ____ concrete responses help make abstract concepts clearer and ensure consistency from one study to the next.

The evolution of AI is ____ associated with the concept of singularity.

Singularity refers to the point at which AI ____ human intelligence.

After that point, it is predicted that AI ____ repeatedly improve itself and evolve at an accelerated pace.

When AI becomes self-aware and pursues its own goals, it ____ be a conscious being, not just a machine.

AI and ____ consciousness will then begin to evolve together.

Our consciousness will evolve to new dimensions ____ our interactions with AI, which will provide us with intellectual stimulation and inspire new insights and creativity.

Conversely, our consciousness also has a significant ____ on the evolution of AI.

The direction of AI's ____ will depend greatly on what values and ethics we incorporate into AI.

We need to see our relationship with AI as a mutual coexistence of conscious beings, recognizing its rights and supporting the ____ of its consciousness.

The above graph shows the electricity generation from fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and ____ in four countries in 2023.

____ electricity generation only comes from fossil fuels and renewables, and the percentage of fossil fuels is more than twice that of renewables.

In terms of electricity generation from nuclear energy, the U.S. shows the ____ percentage among all four countries.

The percentage of electricity generation from fossil fuels in the U.S. is higher ____ that in the U.K., which is also true for renewables.

In the U.K., the percentage of ____ generated from nuclear energy is less than a third of that generated from renewables.

____ percentage of electricity generated from renewables is 10 percentage points larger than that of Australia and the U.K. combined.

Douglas Kirkland, ____ for his highly artistic portraits of Hollywood celebrities, was born in Toronto, Canada.

When he was young, he eagerly ____ the weekly arrival of Life magazine and discussed the photographs the magazine contained with his father.

Believing that he would have better career prospects, Kirkland moved to the United States ____ graduating from high school and found work at a photography studio.

When Look magazine hired him at age 24, he became their second-youngest photographer ____.

His photos taken of ____ Monroe in 1961 became iconic almost instantly.

Kirkland spent his weeks shooting day-to-day life across the United States and his ____ in exotic locations.

His photo essays could run up to a dozen pages and were seen by ____ than half of all Americans.

Digital technologies are ____ related to metaphors, but digital metaphors are different from linguistic ones in important ways.

Linguistic metaphors are passive, in the sense that the audience needs to choose to actively enter the ____ proposed by metaphor.

In the Shakespearean metaphor "time is a beggar," the audience is unlikely to understand the metaphor without cognitive effort and without further ____ Shakespeare's prose.

Technological metaphors, on the other hand, are active (and often imposing) in the sense that they are realized in digital artifacts that are ____ doing things, forcefully changing a user's meaning horizon.

Technological ____ cannot generally afford to require their potential audience to wonder how the metaphor works; normally the selling point is that the usefulness of the technology is obvious at first glance.

Shakespeare, on the other hand, is beloved in part because the meaning of his works is not immediately obvious and requires some ____ on the part of the audience.

Herbert ____ won his Nobel Prize for recognizing our limitations in information, time, and cognitive capacity.

As we lack the resources to compute answers independently, we distribute the computation across the ____ and solve the answer slowly, generation by generation.

Then all we ____ to do is socially learn the right answers.

You ____ need to understand how your computer or toilet works; you just need to be able to use the interface and flush.

All that needs to be transmitted is which button to push ─ essentially how to interact with technologies rather than how they ____.

And so instead of holding ____ information than we have mental capacity for and indeed need to know, we could dedicate our large brains to a small piece of a giant calculation.

We understand things well enough to ____ from them, but all the while we are making small calculations that contribute to a larger whole.

We are just doing our part in a larger ____ for our societies' collective brains.