2026년 6월 고1 모의고사 영어 전지문 빈칸

I am Trixie Mitchell, the director of the ____ Community Center.

I am pleased to invite you to a book donation ____

We are collecting used books to ____ our reading programs for children and teenagers.

By donating books, you ____ help young readers discover the joy of reading.

Any books ____ good condition are gladly accepted, including novels, poetry, and non­fiction books.

You can bring your books to ____ community center during our operating hours.

We would be grateful if you could join this ____ event.

Daniel was on his way ____ the train station for a business trip.

He was riding a ____ when it suddenly stopped.

The driver announced, ____ have a mechanical problem.”

Daniel grew nervous about missing his ____

Without hesitation, he got off the bus and took ____ taxi to the station.

Still, he kept worrying about not ____ it in time.

When he finally reached the station, he found ____ the train was delayed by ten minutes.

Once he settled into his seat, he let out ____ long breath of relief.

Remember how you ____ to drive or cook?

You practiced while someone coached you, reminding you what to do until you were able to coach yourself and then, ____ do it automatically.

Children ____ values much the same way.

They practice different kinds of behavior, while, you, as coach, help focus their attention on ____ is important and on fine­tuning important skills.

You support them with your praise, encouragement ____ gentle reminders.

If you don’t coach ____ child, she will find her coaches elsewhere and be guided by the values of the media, her peers and anyone else who captures her interest.

So, step up to the plate, don’t be afraid and help your child learn how to be a good person, step by ____

A classical ideal of truth and knowledge is the concept of a market for ____ as thinking individuals, we encounter competing ideas, we evaluate them for their best fit to reality, and then let the best and brightest facts form the basis of our beliefs.

That would be the scientist’s way, in theory at ____

But in practice, most of the ____ we are in a market for justifications.

We shop for words not because they contain ideas, ____ because they contain stories about ideas.

Often we are not seeking statements ____ facts to help us figure out what we should believe.

____ we already know what we believe.

What we seek are statements ____ justify those beliefs ― the lawyer’s way.

Language might be good ____ this function but we can use it to do better.

By ____ language with greater respect, we can achieve more than simple self­defense.

Suppose you have been working on the solution to ____ challenging technological problem for many years.

Let’s also suppose that you have been paying attention to whatever else you have encountered that might be ____ to the problem.

In that case, chances are that creative solutions to the problem could suddenly pop up in your mind ____ you are relaxed.

Such “eureka moments” (when great insights lead to discovery or invention) ____ take place at unexpected times.

To ____ spontaneous creativity, therefore, one must pay attention to the things that could potentially lead to valuable outcomes.

This does not mean that you must narrow down your interest to ____ specific topic.

On the contrary, breadth of experience ____ the key to creativity.

If your experience is limited to a narrow range of topics, then the scope of your ____ will likewise be narrow, which would be harmful to creativity.

Shame is about who we ____ and guilt is about our behaviors.

We feel guilty when we hold up something we’ve done or failed to do against the kind of person we want ____ be.

It’s an uncomfortable feeling, ____ one that’s helpful.

When we apologize for something we’ve done, make amends to others, or change ____ behavior that we don’t feel good about, guilt is most often the motivator.

Guilt is just as powerful as shame, but its effect ____ often positive while shame often is destructive.

____ we see people apologize, make amends, or replace negative behaviors with more positive ones, guilt is often the motivator, not shame.

In fact, in my research, I found that shame corrodes the part of us that ____ we can change and do better.

Let’s look at what is occurring in your brain when scrolling ____ social media, a quick dopamine activity.

You open your social media apps and immediately you notice you feel really good, your dopamine levels increase incredibly fast and pleasure ____ experienced in your brain.

The challenge this creates is as with everything in our universe: as the laws ____ physics explain, ‘what goes up, must come down’.

Your brain ____ body are always seeking something called ‘homeostasis’, which simply means balance.

With this in mind, when ____ levels increase incredibly fast when scrolling social media, the brain then thinks, ‘Wow, how are my dopamine levels so high?’

In order to achieve homeostasis, or balance, the dopamine then has to quickly drop an equal amount below your baseline level ____ order to rebalance, making you feel even worse than before you started scrolling.

George Bird Grinnell, ____ of the leading figures in early American conservation, was born in New York in 1849.

Growing up near Audubon ____ he developed an early interest in birds.

After graduating from Yale University, he joined his first scientific expedition, which led to ____ career in American conservation.

From the late 1870s, he wrote many articles in Forest and Stream calling for ____ conservation.

Grinnell contributed to founding early conservation organizations, including the Audubon Society, and helped with the establishment of Glacier National Park in ____

Through his writings and public campaigns, he had an influence on ____ early wildlife protection laws.

Even after his death in 1938, his work in ____ continues to inspire conservationists.

Literature, ____ its essence, is a testament to the enduring power of human creativity and expression.

It transcends time and space, connecting us with the thoughts and emotions ____ people from all walks of life, across centuries and cultures.

Despite ____ rise of new technologies and the ever­changing landscape of media, literature has retained its relevance and significance as a timeless art form.

One reason for literature’s ____ power is its ability to capture and convey the complexities of the human experience.

Through the written word, ____ have the unique ability to explore the depths of human emotion, the nuances of relationships, and the challenges and triumphs of the human spirit.

Literature allows us ____ see ourselves reflected in the pages of a book, to empathize with characters different from ourselves, and to gain a deeper understanding of the human condition.

A viewfinder is a piece of card with a hole cut through it in ____ middle, which can be used to isolate a part of a picture or object.

It allows us to ____ on one small part or area without being distracted by the whole of what can be seen.

It ____ a useful tool that can help children focus or organise their observation and drawing.

It can support hesitant children by giving a boundary to what they are looking at and it can help children who find it hard to keep track of where and what they are looking at, by bringing them back to the same area each ____ they look and look back.

When you are making ____ for use with the children you are supporting, take into consideration the size of the card.

You need enough card around the hole to block out the rest of the visual information from the child’s field of vision, but it should not be too big and ____

Our world is not just interconnected, ____ ever­changing, even if we can’t sense it.

While you’re ____ this, you’re changing.

You’re aging (a minute amount, thankfully), but the neural networks in your brain are ____ imperceptibly changing as you perceive each word.

Crucially, even when we’re seemingly not doing anything of note, events are taking place outside your immediate surroundings that will change your ____ in the future, though you won’t realize it yet.

Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher, rightly pointed out, “No man ever steps in the same ____ twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

To that, Cratylus, a student of Heraclitus, added ____ we are not mere passive observers.

When you step in a river, you change ____ Nothing is static. Even microscopic changes add up over time.

Do you always study in the ____ spot? Don’t.

If you study in different places, that helps create variety, and that rich experience can reinforce what ____ are learning.

When several college students told us they did school ____ in different places rather than in some favorite nook, that habit reflected the research on learning.

Numerous experiments have found that if learners simply study in at least two different places, they are more likely ____ recall the material.

In one of the first such trials, ____ different groups studied a list of words.

Some students returned to the same room twice while their counterparts spent the same ____ of time divided between two locations.

When asked to recall as many words on the list as ____ those who had moved around did far better.

Variety creates rich association, even when those connections form in the background, totally ____ of what we are consciously thinking.

Talking about what something smells like is the most basic way of talking about our olfactory experience, and even this most basic ____ of talking about smells is challenging.

There are no words in the English language to describe smells in the same way in which “blue” or ____ describe colors.

Instead, to talk about how something smells, we talk about the ____ of the odor.

____ smell “flowery,” “fruity,” or “fishy.”

Furthermore, even the most familiar odors are difficult to identify when they are not experienced in their usual ____

In one experiment the majority of participants was unable to name very common odors like beer, urine, roses, ____ motor oil.

____ even those who couldn’t name any of these odors would drink the beer but not the urine or the motor oil.

This is how evolution has shaped our ____ We respond to odors correctly in many different ways, but we are not well­equipped to talk about them.

A particularly powerful way in which human beings adapt and adjust to their circumstances is by changing behaviors ____ light of the consequences that they yield.

For instance, a child who gets praised by her teacher for doing an exercise correctly is likely to continue doing the ____ in that way.

A dancer who feels that a particular conditioning exercise is not giving any results is likely to give that ____ up in favor of another one that seems more promising.

In general, we tend to do things that bring us ____ kind of benefit or act in ways that help us avoid some kind of problem, discomfort, or disadvantage.

We also tend to ____ fewer things (or stop doing things) that lead to problems, discomfort, or disadvantages, and we tend to avoid acting in ways that do not bring any benefit or reward.

It is evident through various case studies that adopting digital ____ can lead to improved mental health outcomes.

For instance, a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University found that participants who limited their use of social media and digital ____ reported lower levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.

By reducing the constant stream of information and notifications, individuals were able to focus more on meaningful interactions and ____ that promoted well­being.

In another case, a corporate professional struggling ____ burnout and insomnia implemented digital minimalism techniques, such as setting boundaries for phone usage and practicing mindfulness.

As a result, he experienced improved sleep quality, reduced stress levels, ____ a newfound sense of calm and clarity.

During the Ice Age, not only was the planet much colder, with ice sheets covering much of what we call the northern ____ today, but, crucially, it was much drier.

In Ireland, we often associate the cold with the wet but ____ it is really cold, there is far less evaporation, fewer clouds, and less rain.

____ world in the Ice Age was cold and dry, meaning it was difficult for plants to grow.

In this type of climate, farming isn’t an option: it’s too risky to depend on any one piece of land to produce the ____ you need.

As the ____ rose and the ice caps melted, we experienced a sudden explosion of life.

The ____ got warmer and wetter, and people started to live around places where they could make food grow most intensively.

This didn’t happen overnight; it probably took thousands of years, with hunter­gatherers foraging and hunting, while doing a little side hustle in ____

The big difference between working and long­term memory is that we are explicitly aware of the information in working memory, but we are not able to directly access the information in our ____ memory.

We access ____ memory by bringing the information into working memory.

For example, right now you are not aware of all the actors you have ____ seen.

They are ____ in your long­term memory outside your consciousness.

However, if I asked you to list all the actors, you would use your working memory to retrieve them one by one ____ reel them off.

Your working memory can access your long­term memory and bring those ____ to awareness.

____ remember it has a limit of seven items or chunks. Each actor would be an item.

Try and ____ all the actors you know in your explicit awareness.

You might try to visualize a large group of ____

But you still would only be aware of a few ____ at any one time.

If you gesture while describing an event, do you think you’ll be able to recall that ____ better than if you don’t gesture?

We had adults watch videos of toy objects, animals, and people performing various, sometimes odd, actions: a chicken sliding to a policeman, a jogger ____ down to touch his toes, a fence swinging shut on its own.

We then tested the adults’ memories of these events immediately after the ____ and three weeks later.

Adults who were told to gesture while ____ the events remembered more than adults who were told not to gesture, particularly several weeks later.

To see if we’d get the same effects if people gestured on their own, we did the study again, but this time we gave the ____ no instructions about gesture.

We found the same ____ people remembered items on which they had gestured spontaneously better than items on which they had not gestured.

Producing gesture along with speech makes the information ____ in that speech memorable.

Approximately 15-20% of global greenhouse ____ emissions are caused by degradation and deforestation.

____ play a huge role in the carbon cycle.

They convert the CO2 in the air to oxygen through the process of photosynthesis, and consequently, they are viewed ____ a natural regulator of carbon dioxide.

The existence of a larger amount of trees will no ____ lead to the reduced presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the increased existence of oxygen.

Unfortunately, deforestation ____ preventing this process from being fully accomplished.

And with half of the ____ forests gone, the amount of carbon dioxide is progressively rising.

With more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, more of the sun’s radiation is ____ reflected back to Earth instead of being released into space, and this is causing the planet’s average temperature to rise.

Accordingly, deforestation is a major ____ when it comes to global warming.

We go out in the world every ____ and make decisions about what is safe or not and what is appropriate or not.

It is what psychologist Joseph LeDoux has suggested is an unconscious “danger detector” that determines whether or ____ something or someone is safe before we can even begin to consciously make a determination.

When the object, animal, or person is ____ to be dangerous, a fear response, which has been called “fight or flight,” occurs.

On a conscious level we may correct a mistake in this “danger detector” when we notice it, but often, of ____ we simply begin to generate reasons for why it was accurate in the first place.

We are generally convinced ____ our decisions are “rational,” but in reality, most human decisions are made emotionally, and then we collect or generate the facts to justify these decisions.

When we see something or someone who “feels” dangerous, we have ____ launched into action internally before we have even started “thinking.”

____ perform an automatic assessment of danger before conscious thinking, making emotion­based decisions first and then generating reasons to support them.

Commercial businesses ____ for predictability and certainty, especially when it comes to product quality.

But predictability and certainty are not always ____ in the sporting world, especially when it comes to the delivery of professional sport competitions.

From a ____ perspective the sport experience is better experienced when unpredictable.

Sport events actually ____ on that unpredictability in order to attract people to the game.

When the results of games cannot be predicted, attendances at sporting contests are likely to be ____ as are the profits of leagues.

However, the absence of predictability also leads to significant variability ____ the quality of sporting performances.

Many factors can contribute to ____ variability of the sport product, including the weather, player injuries, the venue, the quality of the opponents, the closeness of the scores and even the size of the crowd.

A cricket match can be exhilarating, boring or even frustrating, but fans still have ____ pay the same price.

Sport marketers may attempt to overcome this by ‘improving’ the product in systematic ways, such ____ including a star player, offering premium seating or providing other forms of entertainment and inviting facilities.

The uncertain nature of sport contests is just one element of a total experience, although it is an important ____ for financial success.