2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

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

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

We truly hoped ____ the race would go smoothly.

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

____ a result, 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 ____ on Friday and Peter was certain that his wife, Amy, was going to love his surprise.

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

He had finally found the ____ thing for her.

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

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

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

____ too bad,” he said quietly.

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

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

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

And yet once they have ____ focus, 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 too easily ignoring a valuable tool that could be ____ to enhance productivity instead of derailing it.

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

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

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

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

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a practicing architect during the rule of Augustus Caesar, recognized that architecture ____ 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 ― ____ 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 their plans, ____ 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 understand the causes and consequences of emotion ― is particularly ____ in group settings.

Individuals who are skilled in this ____ are able to express emotions, feelings and moods 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 well ____ the needs of others (i.e. cooperate).

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

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

Appreciation of differences creates an arena for open communication and promotes constructive conflict ____ 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 and ____ than ever before.

A ____ that runs twelve hours a 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, the ____ 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 ____ hour ― the more hours you worked, the more widgets you produced, and the more money you made ― and thus wages became tied to effort and production.

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

The selfie resonates not ____ it is new, but because it expresses, develops, expands, and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait.

The self-portrait showed to others the status ____ the person depicted.

In this sense, what we have come to call our own “image” ― the interface of the way we think we look 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 ____ expressed as we wish.

At each stage of ____ 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 ____ was one of America’s most beloved sports broadcasters.

He was born ____ Michigan in 1935.

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

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

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

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

He later worked for other ____ sports broadcasting stations.

He made his last live broadcast in 2016 ____ died the following 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 Emmy Awards as a sportscaster, ____ writer, and a producer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feelings of guilt, an emotion generally associated with high motivation for goal-achievement, lead to weaker motivation and performance ____ 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 ____ the outcome or sharing the winner’s reward.