2024년 10월 고1 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

I look forward to ____ from you.

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

I figured he ____ going to tell me something important.

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

My ____ was racing with anticipation.

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

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

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

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

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

And just like that, ____ was over.

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

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

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

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

Let's be realistic; chores ____ inevitable.

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

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

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

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

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

We recode what we see through the lens of everything we ____

We reconstruct memories rather ____ retrieving the video from memory.

This is ____ useful trait.

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

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

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

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

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

Seeing ____ not believing.

In his Cornell laboratory, David Dunning conducted experimental tests of eyewitness testimony and found evidence that a careful deliberation of facial features and a detailed discussion of selection procedures can ____ 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 ____ at me," that they tend to be accurate more often.

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

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

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

Many ____ of research lead naturally to quantitative data.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Singularity refers to the point at which AI exceeds human ____

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

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

AI and human ____ will then begin to evolve together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ technologies are essentially 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 world proposed by ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You don't need to understand how your computer or toilet works; you just need to be able to use the ____ and flush.

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

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

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

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