2023년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

To whom it may concern, I would like to draw your ____ to a problem that frequently occurs with the No. 35 buses.

There is a ____ stop about halfway along Fenny Road, at which the No. 35 buses are supposed to stop.

It would appear, however, that some of your drivers are either unaware of this bus stop or for some ____ choose to ignore it, driving past even though the buses are not full.

I ____ be grateful if you could remind your drivers that this bus stop exists and that they should be prepared to stop at it.

I look forward to ____ an improvement in this service soon.

My 10-year-old appeared, in ____ need of a quarter.

“A ____? What on earth do you need a quarter for?”

My tone bordered on ____.

I didn’t want to be bothered with ____ a trivial demand.

____ a garage sale up the street, and there’s something I just gotta have!

It ____ costs a quarter. Please?”

I placed a quarter in my son’s ____.

Moments later, a little voice said, “Here, ____, this is for you.”

I glanced down at the hands of my little son and saw a fourinch ____ statue of two small children hugging one another.

Inscribed at their feet were words that read It starts with ‘L’ ends with ‘E’ and in ____ are ‘O’ and ‘V.’

As I watched him race back to the garage sale, I smiled with a ____ full of happiness.

That 25 cent garage sale purchase brought me a ____ of joy.

Managers frequently try to play psychologist, to “figure out” why an employee has ____ in a certain way.

Empathizing with employees in ____ to understand their point of view can be very helpful.

However, when ____ with a problem area, in particular, remember that it is not the person who is bad, but the actions exhibited on the job.

Avoid ____ suggestions to employees about personal traits they should change; instead suggest more acceptable ways of performing.

For example, instead of focusing on a person’s “unreliability,” a manager might focus on the ____ that the employee “has been late to work seven times this month.”

It is difficult for ____ to change who they are; it is usually much easier for them to change how they act.

I suspect fungi are a little more forward “____” than their larger partners.

Among trees, ____ species fights other species.

Let’s assume the beeches native to Central ____ could emerge victorious in most forests there.

____ this really be an advantage?

What would happen if a new pathogen came ____ that infected most of the beeches and killed them?

In that case, wouldn’t it be more advantageous if there were a certain number of other species around ― oaks, maples, or firs ― that would continue to grow and provide the shade needed for a new ____ of young beeches to sprout and grow up?

____ provides security for ancient forests.

Because fungi are also very dependent on stable conditions, they support other species underground and protect them from complete collapse to ensure that one ____ of tree doesn’t manage to dominate.

It’s remarkable that positive fantasies help us relax to such an extent that it shows up in physiological ____.

If you want to unwind, you can take some deep breaths, get a massage, or go for a walk ― but you can also try simply closing your eyes and ____ about some future outcome that you might enjoy.

But ____ about when your objective is to make your wish a reality?

The ____ thing you want to be is relaxed.

You want to be energized enough to get off the couch and lose those pounds or find that job or study for that test, and you want to be motivated enough to stay engaged even ____ the inevitable obstacles or challenges arise.

The principle of “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” does not hold true, and now we know ____: in dreaming it, you undercut the energy you need to do it.

You put yourself in a temporary state of ____ happiness, calmness ― and inactivity.

If cooking is as central to human identity, biology, and culture as the biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham suggests, it stands to ____ that the decline of cooking in our time would have serious consequences for modern life, and so it has.

Are they all bad? Not at ____.

The outsourcing of much of the work of cooking to corporations has relieved women of what ____ traditionally been their exclusive responsibility for feeding the family, making it easier for them to work outside the home and have careers.

It has headed ____ many of the domestic conflicts that such a large shift in gender roles and family dynamics was bound to spark.

It has relieved other pressures in the ____, including longer workdays and overscheduled children, and saved us time that we can now invest in other pursuits.

It has also allowed us to diversify our diets substantially, ____ it possible even for people with no cooking skills and little money to enjoy a whole different cuisine.

All ____ required is a microwave.

As you may already know, what and how ____ buy can be political.

To whom do you ____ to give your money?

Which companies and ____ do you value and respect?

Be mindful about every purchase by carefully researching the corporations that are taking our ____ to decide if they deserve our support.

Do they have a record of polluting the environment, or do they have fairtrade practices and an endoflife plan for the ____ they make?

Are they committed to bringing ____ good in the world?

For instance, my family has found a company producing recycled, plasticpackagingfree toilet paper with a social ____.

They ____ 50 percent of their profits to the construction of toilets around the world, and we’re genuinely happy to spend our money on this special toilet paper each month.

Remember that the corporate world is built on consumers, so as a consumer you ____ the power to vote with your wallet and encourage companies to embrace healthier and more sustainable practices with every purchase you choose to make.

Camille Flammarion was born at MontignyleRoi, ____.

He became interested in astronomy at an early age, and when he was only sixteen he wrote a book on the origin of the ____.

The ____ was not published at the time, but it came to the attention of Urbain Le Verrier, the director of the Paris Observatory.

He became an assistant to Le ____ in 1858 and worked as a calculator.

At nineteen, he wrote ____ book called The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, in which he passionately claimed that life exists outside the planet Earth.

His most successful work, Popular Astronomy, was published in 1880, and eventually ____ 130,000 copies.

With his own funds, he built an observatory at Juvisy and spent May to November of each year ____.

In 1887, he ____ the French Astronomical Society and served as editor of its monthly publication.

There is little doubt that we are driven by the sellby ____.

Once an ____ is past that date it goes into the waste stream, further increasing its carbon footprint.

Remember those items have already travelled hundreds of ____ to reach the shelves and once they go into waste they start a new carbon mile journey.

But we all make our own judgement about sellby dates; those brought up during the Second ____ War are often scornful of the terrible waste they believe such caution encourages.

The manufacturer of the food has a view when making or growing ____ that by the time the product reaches the shelves it has already been travelling for so many days and possibly many miles.

The manufacturer then decides that a product can reasonably be consumed within say 90 days and 90 days minus so many days for travelling gives the ____ date.

But whether it becomes toxic is something each individual ____ decide.

It would seem to make sense not to buy ____ packs of perishable goods but nonperishable items may become costeffective.

The “jolt” of caffeine does wear ____.

Caffeine is removed from your system by an enzyme within your liver, which gradually ____ it over time.

Based in large part on genetics, some people ____ a more efficient version of the enzyme that degrades caffeine, allowing the liver to rapidly clear it from the bloodstream.

These rare ____ can drink an espresso with dinner and fall fast asleep at midnight without a problem.

Others, ____, have a sloweracting version of the enzyme.

It takes ____ longer for their system to eliminate the same amount of caffeine.

As a ____, they are very sensitive to caffeine’s effects.

One cup of tea or coffee in the morning will last much of the day, and should they have a second cup, even early in the afternoon, they will ____ it difficult to fall asleep in the evening.

Aging also alters the speed of caffeine clearance: the older we are, the ____ it takes our brain and body to remove caffeine, and thus the more sensitive we become in later life to caffeine’s sleepdisrupting influence.