2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

Dear Rosydale City Marathon Racers, We are really grateful to all of you who have signed up for ____ 10th Rosydale City Marathon that was scheduled for this coming Saturday at 10 a.m.

Unfortunately, as you may already know, the weather forecast ____ that there is going to be a downpour throughout the race day.

We truly hoped that the ____ would go smoothly.

However, ____ is likely that the heavy rain will make the roads too slippery and dangerous for the racers to run safely.

As a ____ we have decided to cancel the race.

We hope you understand and we promise to hold another race in ____ near future.

It was Valentine’s Day on Friday and Peter was certain that his wife, Amy, was going ____ love his surprise.

Peter had spent a long time searching online for an ____ that would be a new way to spend time with Amy.

He had finally found ____ perfect thing for her.

She often told him that she liked to go to places she had never visited before, and ____ was absolutely sure that she would love going to the new, five-star restaurant downtown.

____ smiled as he called the restaurant and asked for a reservation for Friday.

Unfortunately, his smile quickly disappeared when ____ was told that the restaurant was fully reserved.

“That’s too bad,” ____ said quietly.

“I thought that I had found ____ right place.”

We almost universally accept that playing video ____ is at best a pleasant break from a student’s learning and more often what prevents a student from accomplishing their goals.

Games catch and hold attention in a ____ that few things can.

And yet once they have our ____ they rarely seem to offer anything meaningful to help students grow in their lives outside the games.

While this may be true for many games, we are ____ easily ignoring a valuable tool that could be used to enhance productivity instead of derailing it.

Rather, it is desirable that we develop games that connect to ____ learning outcomes we want for our students.

This will enable educators to take advantage of games’ attention commanding capacities ____ allow our students to enjoy their games while learning.

The position of the architect ____ during the Roman Empire, as architecture symbolically became a particularly important political statement.

Cicero classed the architect with the physician and the teacher and Vitruvius spoke of “so great ____ profession as this.”

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a practicing architect during the rule of Augustus Caesar, ____ that architecture requires both practical and theoretical knowledge, and he listed the disciplines he felt the aspiring architect should master:

literature and writing, draftsmanship, mathematics, history, philosophy, music, medicine, law, and astronomy ____ a curriculum that still has much to recommend it.

All of this study was necessary, he argued, because architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to ____ plans, while those who have relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously “hunting the shadow, not the substance.”

The ability to understand emotions ― to have a diverse emotion vocabulary and to ____ the causes and consequences of emotion ― is particularly relevant in group settings.

Individuals who are skilled in this domain are able to express emotions, feelings and ____ accurately and thus, may facilitate clear communication between co-workers.

Furthermore, they may be more likely to act in ways that accommodate their own needs as ____ as the needs of others (i.e. cooperate).

In a group ____ situation, for example, a member with a strong ability to understand emotion will be able to express how he feels about the problem and why he feels this way.

He also should be able to take the perspective of the other group members and ____ why they are reacting in a certain manner.

Appreciation of differences creates an arena for open communication and promotes ____ conflict resolution and improved group functioning.

The ____ of the Industrial Age changed the relationship among time, labor, and capital.

Factories could produce around the clock, and they could do so with greater speed ____ volume than ever before.

A machine that runs twelve hours ____ day will produce more widgets than one that runs for only eight hours per day ― and a machine that runs twenty-four hours per day will produce the most widgets of all.

As such, at many factories, ____ workday is divided into eight-hour shifts, so that there will always be people on hand to keep the widget machines humming.

Industrialization raised the potential value of every single work hour ― the more hours you worked, the more widgets you produced, and the more money you made ― and thus wages became ____ to effort and production.

Labor, previously guided by harvest cycles, became clock-oriented, and society started to ____ around new principles of productivity.

The selfie resonates ____ because it is new, but because it expresses, develops, expands, and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait.

The ____ showed to others the status of the person depicted.

In this sense, what we have come to call our own “image” ― the interface of the way we think we ____ and the way others see us ― is the first and fundamental object of global visual culture.

The selfie depicts the drama of our own daily performance of ourselves in tension with our inner emotions that may or may not be expressed ____ we wish.

At ____ stage of the self-portrait’s expansion, more and more people have been able to depict themselves.

Today’s young, urban, networked majority has reworked the history of the self-portrait to make the ____ into the first visual signature of the new era.

Dick Enberg was one of America’s most beloved ____ broadcasters.

He was born in Michigan in ____

In the early 1960s, he ____ an assistant professor at San Fernando Valley State College, where he also served as a coach of its baseball team.

Afterwards, ____ began a full-time sportscasting career in Los Angeles.

In 1973, he became the first U.S. sportscaster ____ to visit China.

He joined NBC Sports in 1975 and remained with the network for about 25 ____ covering such big events as the Olympics.

He later worked for other major sports ____ stations.

He made his last live broadcast in 2016 and died the ____ year at the age of 82.

He served as ____ of the American Sportscaster Association for more than three decades.

Enberg was also a best-selling writer and won ____ Awards as a sportscaster, a writer, and a producer.

Think of yourself. When you decide to get up and get ____ drink of water, for example, you don’t consciously organize or consider the host of steps involved.

Imagine if we had to consider every single muscle that ____ to be contracted or relaxed just to stand up and walk.

It would ____ tiresome and very slow ― as patients recovering from a brain injury affecting the motor system know.

The autopilot parts of our brain do it for us automatically, freeing up our ____ mind for more important jobs.

It is the older parts of our brain that support these automatic processes that allow us to move, hear, see, and use many of ____ social skills.

More recently evolved abilities like talking, reading, and writing ____ far less automated.

So, most of the time, what you are perceiving, feeling, or thinking is based on a very crude and ____ analysis that happens completely without your awareness.

Studies in psychology have reported cases in which competitive incentives resulted in lower task effort, and their focus was on the psychological underpinnings of ____ reduction in motivation.

For example, competition presents an inevitable conflict between the motivation to achieve one’s personal goal and the desire to maintain good relationships ____ others.

When the maintenance of interpersonal relationships is important, with their counterparts in particular or with others generally, competitors experience an internal ____ that can harm their desire to achieve their goal and taint the good feeling brought about by winning.

Exline and Lobel found that the ____ of oneself as a target for upward social comparison often makes people uncomfortable.

When they believe that others are making ____ comparisons with them, people feel uneasiness, distress, or sorrow.

Feelings of guilt, an emotion generally associated with high motivation for goal-achievement, lead to ____ motivation and performance in the pursuit of competitive goals.

Consequences of this emotional state include lower task motivation in a competition and preferences for more cooperative and altruistic outcomes, such as diminishing the significance of the outcome or sharing ____ winner’s reward.