2025년 5월 고3 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To whom it may concern, The creation of an additional new road to address the traffic on worn-out ____ Road was quite pleasant news for our community.

I pen this letter with the hope that the relevant authorities will ____ in regard to an unresolved inconvenience.

I fully agree that the toll on Mahogany Road needed to be high in past years, because the road was a single one with lots of ____ and its miserable state required frequent maintenance.

Yet, the road's drivers are still asked to pay $3 each time, and this price is similar to that of the ____ built road, so the traffic jams don't go away as drivers flock to the new road.

For better distribution of traffic, I suggest there be a proper ____ in price on Mahogany Road.

I hope the ____ road can fulfill our needs well as planned.

"Please welcome to the stage, ____ Pan!"

My legs tremble as I step onto the stage to ____ a story I wrote.

The spotlight blinds me, and my mind cries ____.

Don't mess up. ____ hesitate. Just keep going.

I adjust the microphone, ____ to ignore the fact that hundreds of people are watching me.

I begin, diving straight ____ the story as I have practiced.

My voice shakes, and I focus on each word, afraid that one ____ will ruin everything.

The room is silent, but I keep ____, word by word.

Finally, I approach the last line and deliver it without a single ____.

There's a moment of silence before I realize ____ finished.

I breathe ____, all my tension melting away.

My chest feels ____ as I step off the stage.

It's done, and I didn't ____.

It's not joy I feel - ____ stillness and peace.

AI technology is powerful, and it is transformative, but the AI hype of recent years has ____ to a god complex that positions technology leaders as voices of authority on the societal problems their creations have often caused.

Listening to scientists and ____ is important.

But ____ who are profiting from AI hype are not experts on how that work should be judged.

Neither do distinguished computer scientists, no matter ____ gifted in their field, automatically understand the complex systems of power, money, and politics that will govern the use of their products in the future.

In fact, those already living at the frontline of AI-enabled worker surveillance, or trapped in a nightmare of AI decision-making, are ____ better qualified for that.

So it is critically important for the future of AI that a much wider group of people become involved in ____ its future.

____ of continually turning to the architects of AI for predictions of the future and solutions to its ills, the introduction of AI into society requires a broader and more inclusive approach.

The early Earth collided with numerous other masses during its formation; ____, the proto-Earth is thought to have sustained a massive impact with a Mars-sized body named 'Theia'.

The Moon probably formed from this collision about 100 ____ years after the formation of the solar system.

This impact is thought to have knocked the Earth off its 'daily' rotational axis so that the Earth now tilts about 23.4' away from its orbital ____ around the Sun, although there is a slight 'wobble' of a few degrees.

This 23.4' tilt, as we orbit around the Sun, ____ our yearly cycle of the seasons.

During part of the year, the northern hemisphere is tilted ____ the Sun (summer) and the southern hemisphere is tilted away (winter).

____ months later, the situation is reversed.

Critically, the Moon's gravitational pull stabilizes the Earth's axial ____, moderating the degree of wobble.

This has produced a relatively stable climate on Earth for billions of years, and many believe that life on Earth ____ never have got started without this stabilization by the Moon.

To rephrase a song from the ____, we are all children of the Moon.

Whether or not an ____ is evidence for a person depends crucially on what the person is bringing to the table in terms of background knowledge.

The ____ sees the Koplik spots as Koplik spots and thereby gains evidence for her belief that the patient is coming down with the measles.

I, a ____, see the same spots, but I do not see them as Koplik spots.

Thus, they are not evidence for me, because they don't provide me with good reasons for believing that I am ____ with a case of the measles.

____ observations that are seen as this or that can be evidence for (or against) some hypothesis.

Another way of putting the ____ point is this:

During the processing of sensory stimuli, we bring ─ often automatically ─ various categories, background knowledge, and ____ things, to bear.

Thus, ____ observations are what constitutes evidence.

Some might ____ that we are overintellectualizing evidence.

However, it seems to us that in the empirical ____, unconceptualized experiences hardly ever play a role as evidence.

Some multinational IT companies, which ____ revenue through digital advertising and data collection, have been accused of exploiting loopholes in international tax regimes to shift profits to low-tax territories.

This practice, known as ____ shifting, allows corporations to pay minimal taxes in the countries where they operate, depriving governments of critical revenue.

In response, several countries have attempted to impose digital services taxes on tech giants, but ____ efforts have been met with fierce resistance.

Corporations argue that such ____ unfairly target their business models, while governments contend that they are necessary to level the playing field and ensure that corporations contribute their fair share to the public good.

These disputes over taxation ____ the broader challenge that governments face in regulating multinational corporations.

Meanwhile, traditional regulatory frameworks, designed for nation-bound businesses, are often ill-equipped to address the complexities of global ____.

As a result, corporations are frequently able to avoid or undermine regulations, operating in a legal gray area where national laws cannot ____ reach them.

Time denial, rooted in a very human combination of pride and existential dread, is perhaps the ____ common and forgivable form of what might be called chronophobia.

But there are other, more toxic varieties that work together with the less harmful kind to create a ____, stubborn, and dangerous temporal illiteracy in our society.

We in the twenty-first ____ would be shocked if an educated adult were unable to identify the continents on a world map, yet we are quite comfortable with widespread ignorance about anything but the most superficial highlights from the planet's long history: perhaps the Bering Strait, dinosaurs, or Pangaea.

Most humans have no sense of temporal proportion ─ the durations of the great chapters in Earth's history, the rates of change during ____ intervals of environmental instability, the intrinsic timescales of "natural capital" like groundwater systems.

As a species, we have a childlike ____ and partial disbelief in the time before our appearance on Earth.

With no appetite for stories lacking humans, many people ____ can't be bothered with natural history.

Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz was one of the chief literary figures of the 20th ____.

He was born in Mexico ____ to a Spanish mother and a Mexican father in 1914.

He came into early contact with literature due to his grandfather's extensive ____.

After attending a Roman Catholic ____ he went to the University of Mexico.

____ at university he published his first book of poetry, Forest Moon, in 1933.

On a visit to Spain in 1937, he wrote Beneath Your Clear Shadow and Other Poems, ____ showed him to be a poet of great promise.

From 1962 until 1968, Paz served as Mexico's ambassador to India, although he continued writing poetry as ____.

After his resignation, he taught briefly at Cambridge ____ in England and at Harvard University in the United States.

In ____, Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Mexican writer to do so.

Working with neuroscientists who use neuroimaging to understand how the human brain works, ____ Simon Cohn has shown the extent to which scientists need to develop personal, even intimate, relationships with their subjects in order to secure their cooperation.

Only by enlisting ____ in a social relationship, even if briefly, do the researchers feel they can depend on the subjects to follow directions to the best of their ability.

Strapped down uncomfortably in a dark, noisy scanner, subjects must nonetheless pay attention and follow directions in ____ to produce data the researchers can use.

Before the subjects ever enter the scanner, researchers provide them with reassurance and sympathy and share personal experiences, creating a subjective alliance between ____ and subject.

Although these tactics might influence the specific subjective experiences revealed in the scanner, they are carefully eliminated from the experimental reports so that only the signals from subjects' brains in ____ to stimuli in the scanner come to light.

Because we are ____ to the world by being-in-a-mood, the world is disclosed to us through our moods but it also influences these moods.

This is relevant to the claim that mood is 'scaffolded' by the environment, where an interaction with the environment is necessary for the creation of ____ states.

In one type of affective scaffolding, one can 'experientially incorporate parts of the world' in the sense that when one undergoes certain ____, one experiences certain aspects of the world as part of oneself.

In this case, the way that the world appears is directly dependent ____ the way we are attuned to it through mood.

To give an ____ 'when I am melancholic it is not just that I feel as though the world is grey.

Rather, ____ I am melancholic the world is grey.'

Such a state presupposes the absence of a distinction ____ what is out there and what is in here.

The boundaries between ourselves and the external world seem to disappear such that the mood one is in determines which ____ of the environment will matter and in what way.