2026년 6월 고1 모의고사 영어 전지문 빈칸

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

I am pleased to invite you to a book donation ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was riding a bus when it ____ stopped.

The driver announced, “We have a ____ problem.”

Daniel grew nervous about ____ his train.

____ hesitation, he got off the bus and took a taxi to the station.

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

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

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

Remember ____ you learned to drive or cook?

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

Children learn ____ much the same way.

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

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

If you don’t coach your child, she will find her coaches elsewhere and be guided by the values of the media, her peers and anyone else who ____ 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 ____ of truth and knowledge is the concept of a market for ideas: 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 ____ at least.

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

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

Often we are ____ seeking statements as facts to help us figure out what we should believe.

Usually we already know ____ we believe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shame is about who we are, and guilt is about our ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With this in mind, when dopamine levels increase incredibly fast when scrolling social media, the brain then ____, ‘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 in order to rebalance, making you feel even worse than ____ you started scrolling.

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

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

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

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

Grinnell contributed to founding early conservation ____, including the Audubon Society, and helped with the establishment of Glacier National Park in 1910.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Through the ____ word, authors 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 to see ourselves reflected in the ____ 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 the middle, which can be ____ 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 is a useful tool that can ____ children focus or organise their observation and drawing.

It can support hesitant children by giving a boundary to ____ 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 time they look and look back.

When you are making viewfinders for use with the children you are supporting, ____ 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 ____ not be too big and unwieldy.

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

While ____ reading this, you’re changing.

You’re aging (a minute amount, ____), but the neural networks in your brain are also 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 life in the future, though you ____ realize it yet.

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

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

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

Do you always study in the same spot? ____

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

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

____ experiments have found that if learners simply study in at least two different places, they are more likely to 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 amount of ____ divided between two locations.

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

Variety creates rich association, even when those ____ form in the background, totally outside 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 ____ way of talking about smells is challenging.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We also tend to do 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 ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The big difference between working and long­term memory is that we are explicitly aware of the information in working memory, but we are ____ able to directly access the information in our long­term memory.

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

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

They are stored in your ____ memory outside your consciousness.

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

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

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

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

You might try to ____ a large group of them.

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

If you gesture while describing an event, do you think you’ll be able to recall that event ____ 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 bending down to ____ his toes, a fence swinging shut on its own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trees play a huge role in the carbon ____.

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

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

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

And with half of the Earth’s forests ____, the amount of carbon dioxide is progressively rising.

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

Accordingly, deforestation is a major issue when it comes to ____ 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 not something or someone is safe before we can even begin to ____ make a determination.

When the object, animal, or person is assessed to be dangerous, a fear response, which has ____ 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 course, we simply begin to generate reasons for why it was accurate in the first ____.

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

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

We perform an automatic assessment of danger before conscious thinking, ____ 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 valued in the ____ world, especially when it comes to the delivery of professional sport competitions.

From a spectator’s perspective the sport experience is better experienced when ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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