2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

Dear Rosydale City Marathon Racers, We are really grateful ____ 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 ____ know, the weather forecast says that there is going to be a downpour throughout the race day.

We truly ____ that the race would go smoothly.

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

As a ____ we have decided to cancel the race.

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

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

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

He had finally found the perfect ____ for her.

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

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

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

“That’s ____ bad,” he said quietly.

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

We almost ____ accept 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 and hold attention ____ a way that few things can.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a practicing architect during the rule of Augustus Caesar, recognized that architecture requires ____ 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 ____ has much to recommend it.

All of this ____ 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, 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 understand the causes and consequences ____ emotion ― is particularly relevant in group settings.

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

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

In a group conflict situation, for example, a member with ____ 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 ____ of the other group members and understand why they are reacting in a certain manner.

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

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

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

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

As such, at many ____ the 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 ― ____ 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 to reorganize ____ new principles of productivity.

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

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

In this sense, what we have come to call our own ____ ― 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 ____ that may or may not be 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 ____ selfie into the first visual signature of the new era.

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

He was born in Michigan in ____

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

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

In 1973, he became the first ____ sportscaster ever 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 broadcasting ____

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

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

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

Think of yourself. When you decide to get ____ and get a 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 needed to be ____ or relaxed just to stand up and walk.

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

The autopilot parts ____ our brain do it for us automatically, freeing up our conscious 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 ____ many of our social skills.

More recently evolved abilities ____ 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 ____ that happens completely without your awareness.

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

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

When the maintenance of interpersonal ____ 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 ____ upward social comparison often makes people uncomfortable.

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

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