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

It would 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 ____

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

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

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

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

My ____ bordered on irritation.

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

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

____ only costs a quarter. Please?”

I ____ a quarter in my son’s hand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Among trees, each ____ fights other species.

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

Would ____ 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 ____ 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 ancient ____

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

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

If you want ____ 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 you might enjoy.

But what ____ 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 ____ that job or study for that test, and you want to be motivated enough to stay engaged even when the inevitable obstacles or challenges arise.

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

You put yourself in a temporary ____ of complete 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 reason that the decline of cooking in our time would have serious consequences for modern life, and so it ____

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 ____ them to work outside the home and have careers.

It has headed off many of the domestic conflicts that such a ____ 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 ____ diets substantially, making it possible even for people with no cooking skills and little money to enjoy a whole different cuisine.

____ that’s required is a microwave.

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

To whom do ____ want to give your money?

Which companies and ____ do you value and respect?

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

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

____ they committed to bringing about good in the world?

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

They contribute 50 percent of their profits to the construction of toilets around the ____ 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 have the power to vote with your wallet and encourage companies to embrace healthier ____ more sustainable practices with every purchase you choose to make.

Camille Flammarion was born ____ MontignyleRoi, France.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But we all make our own judgement about sellby ____ 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 view when making or growing something that by the time the product reaches the shelves it has already been travelling ____ 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 ____ so many days for travelling gives the sellby date.

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

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

The “jolt” of caffeine does wear ____

Caffeine is removed from your system by an ____ within your liver, which gradually degrades 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 individuals can drink an espresso with dinner ____ fall fast asleep at midnight without a problem.

Others, ____ have a sloweracting version of the enzyme.

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

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

One cup of tea or coffee in the morning will last much of the ____ and should they have a second cup, even early in the afternoon, they will find it difficult to 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 ____ life to caffeine’s sleepdisrupting influence.