2024년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To whom it may concern, My name ____ Peter Jackson and I am 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.

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

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

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

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

I look ____ to your response.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Enjoy ____ stay," he finally said, as he stamped my passport.

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

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

Merely convincing your ____ 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 some reason, young people seem to believe that ____ is a fact of life over which they have little or no control.

Consequently, ____ don't even try to stop.

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

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

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

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

On the contrary, ____ creativity, speed, and keenness.

In the ____ era, the goal was to minimize variation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ the conductor and the sheet music behind.

____ a jazz band instead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For example, if a worker heard that their employer's business was doing badly and people were going ____ be made 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) certain cultural traditions, certain shared understanding, and certain ____ and ideas that are characteristic of the time and place in which the art is created.

In the ____ of science, however, opinions differ.

Some ____ like the great 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 ____ who create it.

In describing this view of science, philosopher Hugh Lacey speaks of the belief that there is an underlying order of the world which is simply there to be ____ ― 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 contingently to human practices and ____

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

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

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

And at the age of 18 people are ____ the right to vote and are thereby formally included in the basic 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, ____ formal 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 ____ done any differently.

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

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

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

Compared to the 25-34 group, the 1524 group had a lower percentage of individuals ____ 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 ____ than twice as high as that in the 35-44 group.

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

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

After graduating, he began teaching as a parttime instructor and had a long ____ 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, and examined the company's records to ____ animal populations.

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

In 1932, he helped establish the Bureau of Animal Population ____ Oxford.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When ____ perspective shifts into place, 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 make the ____

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

The first human beings probably evolved in ____ regions where survival was possible without clothing.

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

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

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

This was probably because their ____ characteristics changed.

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

More important, perhaps, was their ____ of tool making.

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

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

The ____ needs lots of energy to grow.

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