2023년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

____ whom it may concern, I would like to draw your attention 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 ____ appear, however, that some of your drivers are either unaware of this bus stop or for some reason choose to ignore it, driving past even though the buses are not full.

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

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

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

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

My ____ bordered on irritation.

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

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

____ only costs a quarter. Please?”

I placed a quarter in ____ son’s hand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It ____ difficult for employees 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 “thinking” than their ____ partners.

Among ____ each species fights other species.

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

Would this really ____ an advantage?

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

In that ____ 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 generation of young beeches to sprout and grow up?

Diversity provides security for ____ forests.

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

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

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 fantasizing about some future outcome that ____ might enjoy.

But what about when your objective is to make your wish a ____

The last thing you want to be ____ 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 when ____ inevitable obstacles or challenges arise.

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

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

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

Are they all ____ Not at all.

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

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

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

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

All that’s ____ is a microwave.

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

To whom do you want to ____ your money?

Which companies and corporations ____ you value and respect?

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

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

Are they committed to bringing about good in the ____

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

They contribute 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 ____ month.

Remember ____ the corporate world is built on consumers, so as a consumer you have 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, ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The manufacturer of the food has a ____ when making or growing something 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 ____ days minus so many days for travelling gives the sellby date.

But whether it becomes toxic is something each individual can ____

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

The “jolt” ____ caffeine does wear off.

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

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

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

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

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

As a result, ____ 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 find it difficult ____ fall asleep in the evening.

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