2025 수능 영어 변형문제 (18-30번)

Dear Rosydale City Marathon Racers, We are really grateful to all of you who have signed up for the ____ 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 to be a downpour ____ the race day.

We truly hoped that the race ____ go smoothly.

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

As a result, we have ____ to cancel the race.

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

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

Peter had spent a long time searching online for an event that would be a new ____ 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 ____, and he was absolutely sure that she would love going to the new, five-star restaurant downtown.

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

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

____ too bad,” he said quietly.

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

We almost universally accept that playing ____ 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 ____ attention in a way that few things can.

And yet once they have our focus, they rarely seem to offer anything meaningful to help students ____ 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 ____ that we develop games that connect to the learning outcomes we want for our students.

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

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

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

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

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

All of this study was ____, 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 ____ emotions ― to have a diverse emotion vocabulary and to understand 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 moods accurately and thus, may facilitate clear communication between ____.

Furthermore, they may be more likely to act in ____ 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 a ____ 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 ____ group members and understand why they are reacting in a certain manner.

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

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

Factories could ____ around the clock, and they could do so with 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 eight hours per day ― and a machine that runs twenty-four hours per day will produce the ____ widgets of all.

As such, at many factories, the workday is divided ____ 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 ____ ― 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 ____ by harvest cycles, became clock-oriented, and society started to reorganize around new principles of productivity.

The selfie resonates not because it is new, but because it expresses, develops, expands, and intensifies the long ____ 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 look and the way others see us ― is the first and ____ object of global visual culture.

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

At each stage of the ____ expansion, more and more people have been able to depict themselves.

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

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

He was born in Michigan in ____.

In the early ____, 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 ____.

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

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

He later worked for other major sports broadcasting ____.

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

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

Enberg was also a ____ writer and won Emmy Awards as a sportscaster, a writer, and a producer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the maintenance of interpersonal relationships is important, with their counterparts in particular or with ____ 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 ____ that the perception of oneself as a target for upward social comparison often makes people uncomfortable.

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

Feelings of guilt, an ____ generally associated 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 ____ in a competition and preferences for more cooperative and altruistic outcomes, such as diminishing the significance of the outcome or sharing the winner’s reward.