2024년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To whom it may concern, My name is Peter Jackson and I ____ thinking of applying for the Advanced Licensed Counselor Program that the university provides.

I found that the certification for 100 hours ____ counseling experience is required for the application.

____ I do not think I could possibly complete the required counseling experience by the current deadline.

So, if possible, I kindly request an extension of the deadline until the end ____ this summer vacation.

I am actively working on obtaining the certification, and I ____ sure I will be able to submit it by then.

I understand the importance of following the ____ process, and would greatly appreciate your consideration of this request.

I look forward to your ____

The passport control line was short and the inspectors looked relaxed; except the inspector at ____ window.

He seemed to want to model the seriousness of the task at hand ____ the other inspectors.

Maybe that's why I felt uneasy when he studied my passport ____ carefully than I expected.

"You were here in September," he said. ____ are you back so soon?"

"I came in September to prepare to return this ____ I replied with a trembling voice, considering if I missed any Italian regulations.

"For how long?" he asked. "One ____ this time," I answered truthfully.

I knew it was not against the rules ____ stay in Italy for three months.

"Enjoy your stay," he finally said, as he stamped my ____

Whew! As I walked away, the burden I had carried, even though I did nothing wrong, vanished into ____ air.

My shoulders, once ____ down, now stretched out with comfort.

Merely convincing ____ children that worry is senseless and that they would be more content if they didn't worry isn't going to stop them from worrying.

For ____ reason, young people seem to believe that worry is a fact of life over which they have little or no control.

Consequently, they ____ even try to stop.

Therefore, you need to convince them that worry, like guilt and fear, is nothing more than an emotion, and like all emotions, is subject to ____ power of the will.

Tell them that they can eliminate worry ____ their lives by simply refusing to attend to it.

Explain to them that if they refuse to act worried regardless of how they feel, they will eventually stop ____ worried and will begin to experience the contentment that accompanies a worry-free life.

In today's information age, ____ many companies and on many teams, the objective is no longer error prevention and replicability.

On the contrary, it's creativity, speed, ____ keenness.

In the industrial era, the goal was to minimize ____

But in ____ companies today, maximizing variation is more essential.

In these situations, the biggest risk isn't making a mistake ____ losing consistency; it's failing to attract top talent, to invent new products, or to change direction quickly when the environment shifts.

Consistency and repeatability are more likely to suppress fresh thinking ____ to bring your company profit.

A lot of little mistakes, while sometimes painful, help the organization learn quickly and are a critical part ____ the innovation cycle.

In these situations, rules and ____ are no longer the best answer.

A symphony isn't what you're ____ for.

____ the conductor and the sheet music behind.

Build ____ jazz band instead.

Any ____ or threatening situation may require us to make decisions and this requires information.

So important is communication ____ a disaster that normal social barriers are often lowered.

We will talk to ____ in a way we would never consider normally.

Even relatively low ____ disruption of our life such as a fire drill or a very late train seems to give us the permission to break normal etiquette and talk to strangers.

The more important an event to a particular public, the more detailed ____ urgent the requirement for news becomes.

Without an authoritative source of facts, whether that is a newspaper or ____ broadcast station, rumours often run riot.

Rumours start ____ people believe their group to be in danger and so, although the rumour is unproven, feel they should pass it on.

For example, if a worker heard that their employer's business was doing badly and people were going to be ____ redundant, they would pass that information on to colleagues.

People seem to recognize that the arts are cultural activities that draw on (or react against) ____ cultural traditions, certain shared understanding, and certain values and ideas that are characteristic of the time and place in which the art is created.

In the case of science, however, opinions ____

Some scientists, like the ____ biologist J. B. S. Haldane, see science in a similar light ― as a historical activity that occurs in a particular time and place, and that needs to be understood within that context.

Others, however, see science as a purely "objective" pursuit, uninfluenced by the cultural viewpoint and values of those who create ____

In describing this view of science, philosopher Hugh Lacey speaks of ____ belief that there is an underlying order of the world which is simply there to be discovered ― the world of pure "fact" stripped of any link with value.

The aim of science according to this view is to represent this world of pure "fact", independently of any relationship it might bear ____ to human practices and experiences.

Mental development consists of individuals increasingly ____ social codes and signals themselves, which they can master only in social situations with the support of more competent individuals, typically adults.

____ this sense, mental development consists of internalizing social patterns and gradually becoming a responsible actor among other responsible actors.

In Denmark, the age of criminal responsibility is 15 years, which means that we then ____ that people have developed sufficient mental maturity to be accountable for their actions at this point.

And at the age of 18 people are given the right to vote and are thereby formally included in the ____ democratic process.

I do not know whether these age boundaries are optimal, but it is clear that mental development takes place at different rates for different individuals, and depends especially on the ____ and family environment they have been given.

Therefore, having ____ limits for responsibility from a specific age that apply to everyone is a somewhat questionable practice.

But the question, of course, is whether it can be done ____ differently.

The graph above shows the percentage of people who provided unpaid care to children ____ adults by age group in Canada in 2022.

Notably, the 35-44 group had the highest percentage of individuals ____ unpaid care to children, reaching 59.5%.

However, the highest percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to adults was found in the 55-64 ____

Compared ____ the 25-34 group, the 1524 group had a lower percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to children and a higher percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to adults.

The percentage of people providing unpaid care to adults in the 45-54 group was more than twice as ____ as that in the 35-44 group.

The 55-64 ____ and the 65 and older group showed a similar percentage of individuals providing unpaid care to children, with a difference of less than 1 percentage point.

Born ____ the English city of Liverpool, Charles Elton studied zoology under Julian Huxley at Oxford University from 1918 to 1922.

After graduating, ____ began teaching as a parttime instructor and had a long and distinguished teaching career at Oxford from 1922 to 1967.

After a series of arctic expeditions with Huxley, he worked with a fur-collecting and trading company as a biological consultant, ____ examined the company's records to study animal populations.

In 1927, he wrote his ____ and most important book, Animal Ecology, in which he demonstrated the nature of food chains and cycles.

In ____ he helped establish the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford.

In the same ____ he became the editor of the new Journal of Animal Ecology.

Throughout his career, Elton wrote six books and played a major role ____ shaping the modern science of ecology.

One well-known shift took place when the accepted view ― that ____ Earth was the center of the universe ― changed to one where we understood that we are only inhabitants on one planet orbiting the Sun.

With each person who ____ the solar system view, it became easier for the next person to do so.

So it is with the ____ that the world revolves around the human economy.

This is slowly being replaced by the view that the economy is a part of the larger system of ____ flows that connect all living things.

When this perspective shifts into ____ it will be obvious that our economic well-being requires that we account for, and respond to, factors of ecological health.

Unfortunately we do not have a century or two to ____ the change.

By clarifying the nature of the old and new perspectives, and by identifying actions ____ which we might cooperate to move the process along, we can help accelerate the shift.

The first human beings probably evolved in tropical regions where survival was possible ____ clothing.

It is likely ____ they had very dark skin because light skin would have given little protection against the burning rays of the sun.

There is a debate about whether these people spread into other parts of the world or, instead, whether ____ developed independently in various parts of the world.

Whichever the case, it is believed that in time they became capable ____ spreading out from Africa, eventually to most of the world.

This was probably because ____ physical characteristics changed.

For ____ early hominids probably did not walk upright, but when they developed that ability, they could travel more efficiently.

More important, perhaps, was their development of tool ____

With tools, they could hunt other animals, so they could consume more protein and fat than their low-energy vegetarian diet would ____ provided.

Not only their bodies but also their ____ would have been changed with more energy.

The brain needs lots of energy ____ grow.

As their diet expanded, hominids could physically and ____ expand their territory.