2026년 6월 고1 모의고사 영어 전지문 빈칸

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He was ____ a bus when it suddenly stopped.

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

Daniel grew nervous about missing his ____

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

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

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

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

Remember how you learned to ____ or cook?

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

Children learn values much the ____ way.

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

You support ____ with your praise, 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 ____ 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, ____ by step.

A classical ideal of truth and knowledge is the concept of a market for ideas: as thinking ____ 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 time we are ____ a market for justifications.

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

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

Usually we already know what we ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This does ____ mean that you must narrow down your interest to one specific topic.

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

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

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

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

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

When ____ apologize for something we’ve done, make amends to others, 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 ____ shame often is destructive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

With this in mind, when dopamine ____ 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 ____ has to quickly drop an equal amount below your baseline level in order to rebalance, making you feel even worse than before you started scrolling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ the written 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 ____ 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 ____ in the middle, which can be used to isolate a part of a picture or object.

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

It is ____ 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 ____ area each time they look and look back.

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

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

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

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

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

Crucially, even when we’re seemingly not doing anything of note, events ____ taking place outside your immediate surroundings that will change your life 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 river twice. For it’s not the same ____ and he’s not the same man.”

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

____ you step in a river, you change it. 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 ____ create variety, and that rich experience can reinforce what you are learning.

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

Numerous experiments have found that if learners simply ____ 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 ____ the same room twice while their counterparts spent the same amount of time 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 ____ even when those connections form in the background, totally outside of what we are consciously thinking.

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

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

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

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

____ even the most familiar 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 ____ like beer, urine, roses, or motor oil.

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

____ particularly powerful way in which human beings adapt and adjust to their circumstances is by changing behaviors in 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 exercise ____ that way.

A dancer who ____ that a particular conditioning 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 kind of benefit or act in ____ that help us avoid some kind of problem, discomfort, or disadvantage.

We also tend to do fewer things ____ 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 minimalism can lead to improved ____ health outcomes.

For instance, a study conducted by researchers at ____ 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 ____ stream of information and notifications, individuals were able 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 ____ boundaries for phone usage and practicing mindfulness.

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

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

In Ireland, we often associate the cold with the wet but if it ____ 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 climate, farming isn’t an option: ____ 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 ____ 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; ____ probably took thousands of years, with hunter­gatherers foraging and hunting, while doing a little side hustle in farming.

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

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

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

They are stored in ____ long­term memory outside your consciousness.

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

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

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

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

You ____ try to visualize a large group of them.

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

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

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

We then tested the adults’ memories of these events immediately after the descriptions ____ 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 get the ____ 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 which they had gestured spontaneously ____ than items on which they had not gestured.

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

Approximately ____ of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by degradation and deforestation.

Trees play a huge role ____ the carbon cycle.

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

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

Unfortunately, ____ is 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 ____ radiation is being 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 ____ issue when it comes to global warming.

We go out in the world every day and make decisions about what is safe or not and what ____ 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 ____ before we can even begin to consciously make a determination.

When the object, animal, or person is assessed to be dangerous, a fear response, which has been called ____ 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 ____ was accurate in the first place.

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

When we see something or someone ____ “feels” dangerous, we have already 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 aim for predictability and certainty, especially when ____ comes to product quality.

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

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

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

When the results of games ____ be predicted, attendances at sporting contests are likely to be higher, as are the profits of leagues.

However, the absence of predictability also leads ____ 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 venue, the quality of the opponents, the closeness ____ the scores and even the size of the crowd.

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

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

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