2024년 10월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

Dear Executive ____ Schulz, It is a week before the internship program starts.

I am ____ to bring your attention to a matter that requires immediate consideration regarding the issue my department has.

As the coordinator, it is becoming apparent to me that the budget, previously approved by your department, needs some adjustments in order to meet the ____ modifications.

Since my department has hired three more interns than planned initially, the most expensive need is for additional funding to cover their wages, training costs, and ____.

I kindly request an additional ____ allocation for these expenses.

Please refer to the ____ for details.

____ you for your attention.

Katie approached the hotel front ____ to check-in but an unexpected event unfolded.

The receptionist ____ find her reservation under the name 'Katie'.

"I'm sorry, but I ____ seem to locate a reservation under that name," the receptionist said.

"No way, I definitely made a reservation on the phone," ____ said, puzzled.

The receptionist asked, "Can you tell me your phone number?" and Katie told it to him, thinking '____ happened? Did I make a mistake?'

"Just a ____," the receptionist said, typing deliberately on the keyboard.

"I found it! It seems there was a small ____. Your reservation is under 'K-A-T-Y'," the receptionist explained.

With a sense of ease, Katie watched her reservation appearing on the ____.

With her heart slowing to a gentle rhythm, she proceeded with her check-in, thinking that a simple misspelling ____ have ruined her plans.

To be mathematically literate means to be able to ____ critically about societal issues on which mathematics has bearing so as to make informed decisions about how to solve these problems.

Dealing with such complex ____ through interdisciplinary approaches, mirroring real-world problems requires innovative ways of planning and organizing mathematical teaching methods.

Navigating our world means being able to quantify, measure, estimate, ____, compare, find patterns, conjecture, justify, prove, and generalize within critical thinking and when using critical thinking.

Therefore, ____ decisions, even qualitatively, is not possible without using mathematics and critical thinking.

Thus, teaching mathematics should be done in interaction with critical ____ along with a decision-making process.

They can be developed into the mathematical ____, so that there is no excuse to not explicitly support students to develop them.

Imagine that your usually stingy friend delights in buying you a Christmas ____ after taking a generosity booster.

____ would you feel? Undoubtedly, there is something praiseworthy about the action.

You'd be pleased to receive the ____.

You'd say 'thank you', and ____ it.

But his ____ of heart is not entirely satisfying.

According to Zagzebski, an ____ philosopher, he is not really generous.

When we praise someone's character, we ____ words for various virtues: 'generous', 'kind', 'courageous', etc.

A person ____ gives one gift isn't generous.

Instead, ____ is a stable part of a person's 'moral identity', an emotional habit that is part of who you are.

Thus virtues, as ____ to nontypical impulse, are the result of your personal history.

They are part of who you are, as they are part of how your ____ was formed.

Instant virtue is therefore ____.

Popping a pill cannot make ____ a better person.

To determine the mass of my bowling ball, I might put it onto a balance and compare it with a known mass, such as a number of metal cubes ____ weighing 1, 10, or 100 grams.

Things get ____ more complicated if I want to know the mass of a distant star.

____ do I measure it?

We can roughly say that ____ the mass of a star involves various theories.

If we want to measure the mass of a binary star, we first determine a center of mass between the two stars, then their distance from that ____ which we can then use, together with a value for the period and a certain instance of Kepler's Third Law, to calculate the mass.

In other words, in order to " measure" the star mass, we measure other quantities and use those ____, together with certain equations, to calculate the mass.

Measurement is not a simple and unmediated estimation of independently existing properties, but a determination of certain ____ before the background of a number of accepted theories.

Based on discoveries in neuroscience, pain and pleasure are formed and processed in the same ____ of the brain.

Our bodies constantly strive for homeostasis, which is defined as the balance of ____ functions.

Without the body's effective compensatory mechanisms, which may cushion potential highs and lows, we would not be ____ of surviving.

Pleasure and pain are ____ two sides of the same coin; they seem to work together and are heavily reliant on one another and keep balance.

If you imagine pleasure and pain as the two opposite points on a scale, you can easily understand that as one of the two points rises, the other must correspondingly ____.

We've all heard the ____, "No pain, no gain."

Well, according to psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke, there may be some ____ to these words.

She says that our attempts to escape being miserable are in ____ making us even more miserable.

This is because pain is actually an essential component of our ability to maintain a neutral state, and allowing it will in turn ____ our internal scale back to balance.

Manufacturers masterfully sow seeds of doubt ____ the adequacy of our current devices.

Suddenly, the phone that was your lifeline a year ago is now a museum piece, unable to keep ____ with your digital demands.

And thus, the itch to upgrade begins, often ____ there's a genuine need.

This cycle isn't just confined to our digital ____.

It spills over ____ almost every aspect of consumer electronics, from the self-driving car to the smart fridge.

Every product seems to be on an unstoppable march towards the next version, the next generation that ____ to revolutionize your life.

What's fascinating, or perhaps disturbing, is the utter efficacy of this cycle in ____ our desires.

It's not so much that we ____ the newest device; we're led to believe we need it.

The distinction between want and need blurs, shifting our financial priorities in favor of staying ____ with trends.

For all the logical arguments against this ceaseless upgrading, the ____ remains compelling.

The graph above shows the shares of online sales out of total sales by each of five product categories in ____ and the estimated ones in 2027.

The shares of ____ five categories are expected to increase by 2027 respectively, while not surpassing 50%.

Based on the selected categories, consumer electronics is anticipated to ____ the biggest gap in the share of online sales between 2023 and 2027.

DIY and furniture showed the same ____ of online sales with 29% in 2023 but the share of DIY online sales is estimated to exceed that of furniture online sales by 2027.

The share of beauty care online sales was lower than 20% by 2 percentage points in 2023, but is estimated to be higher ____ 20% in 2027.

In 2023, food showed the lowest share of ____ sales among the categories, but that share is projected to more than double by 2027.

Helen Suzman was an activist against apartheid, a racist political and social system in the Republic of ____ Africa.

Suzman was born to Jewish immigrant parents in ____ in the Union of South Africa in 1917.

While working as a lecturer on economic history at Witwatersrand University, she joined the South African Institute of Race ____.

In 1953, she joined the United Party and was elected to Parliament, but when the United Party adopted a more moderate stance on ____, Suzman and other progressive members left it and formed the Progressive Party in 1959.

Suzman tirelessly fought against apartheid, exposing the government's abuses and challenging its ____ for a total of 36 years in Parliament.

Even after her retirement in 1989, she continued to advocate for a multi-racial democracy in the Republic of South Africa and influenced the drafting of the country's new constitution after the ____ of apartheid.

She remained an active voice for human rights and democracy ____ her death in 2009.

Conditioned Place Preference is a way of finding out what animals ____.

Researchers train them to associate one place with an ____ such as food or a loud noise and another place with something completely different, usually where nothing happens.

The two places are made obviously different to make it as easy as possible for the ____ to associate each place with what happened to it there.

The animal's preference for being in one place or another is ____ both before and after its experiences in the two places.

If there is a shift in where the animal chooses to spend its time for the reward, this suggests that it ____ the experience and is trying to repeat it.

Conversely, if it now avoids the ____ the stimulus appeared and starts to prefer the place it did not experience it, then this suggests that it found the stimulus unpleasant.

For example, mice with cancer show a preference for the place where they have been given morphine, a drug used to relieve pain, rather than where they have received ____ whereas healthy mice developed no such preference.

This suggests that the mice with cancer ____ the morphine.

____ the equator, many species of bird breed all year round.

But in temperate and ____ regions, the breeding seasons of birds are often sharply defined.

They are triggered mainly by changes in day ____.

If ____ goes well, the outcome is that birds raise their young when the food supply is at its peak.

Most birds are not simply reluctant to breed at other times but they are also ____ incapable of doing so.

This is because their reproductive system shrinks, which helps flying ____ save weight.

The main ____ to this rule are nomadic desert species.

These can initiate their ____ cycle within days of rain.

____ for making the most of the sudden breeding opportunity.

Also, different species divide the ____ season up in different ways.

Most seabirds ____ a single brood.

In warm ____, however, songbirds may raise several families in a few months.

In an exceptionally good year, a pair of House Sparrows, a kind of songbird, can raise successive broods ____ a marathon reproductive effort.