2026년 7월 고3 모의고사 영어 빈칸 퀴즈

People have been dumping their waste in ____ of our neighborhood where it’s not permitted.

Some of my neighbors are leaving their ____ on street corners and at bus stops.

Even though it’s ____ to leave trash in those areas, recently more and more people are doing it and the situation is getting worse.

The large buildup of garbage attracts animals and insects, which ____ left the neighborhood in a disgusting state.

To fix this growing problem, I urge the city to strengthen management and supervision of illegal ____ in the community.

____ and strict oversight is desperately needed to protect the cleanliness of our neighborhood.

Thank you for your ____ and consideration.

It was late autumn, months after Steller’s ____ had begun.

Dreadful weather and endless hunger had drained ____ of strength.

The ship drifted without direction, food was ____, and Steller felt his body worn down by exhaustion.

There ____ no escape from the sea.

For a long ____, he scanned all around for land to no avail, sinking into despair with the thought that everyone on the ship might perish.

Then something appeared. Under the ____ sun, distant peaks emerged, and light angled across a vast land.

Below the light lay green lagoons, winding ____, and living wilderness.

Unlike the empty ocean, this land ____ shelter and food, with plants and fruits that could be gathered.

____ felt relief that they might live, letting out a long breath.

If your goal is superficial, you may find that your desire to achieve this goal is rooted in a place of anxiety or ____

Moving toward a goal for the sole purpose of reducing an anxiety is something that you ____ want to look closely at.

Wanting to lose weight because people at work have made rude comments toward you is activating a goal for the ____ reasons.

This is ____ it is so important to not only home in on your goals but also why you want to achieve them.

Your goals should benefit you and your life in some positive way, not create an escape ____ away from the things or people who are hurting you.

If you are ____ brought down by people at work for something like your weight, then the issue is not your weight ― it is the rudeness and lack of professionalism displayed by your colleagues.

When you are keenly aware of your own struggles but blind to those of ____, it’s easy to assume you’re missing some skill or secret that others have.

The more we describe successful people as having superhuman powers, the more everyone ____ looks at them and says, “I could never do that.”

Which is unfortunate, because more people would be willing to try if they ____ that those they admire are probably normal people who played the odds right.

When someone is viewed as more ____ than they are, you’re more likely to overvalue their opinion on things they have no special talent in.

Like a successful hedge fund manager’s political views, or a ____ investment advice.

Only when you get to know ____ well do you realize the best you can do in life is to become an expert at some things while remaining unskilled at others ― and that’s if you’re good.

There’s an ____ difference between someone whose specific talent should be celebrated versus someone whose ideas should never be questioned.

Eat the orange, throw ____ the peel.

There are layers of ____ around every growing plant, child, new product, technological advance, company, city, economy, and population.

Insight comes not only from ____ which factor is limiting, but from seeing that growth itself depletes or enhances limits and therefore changes what is limiting.

The interplay between a growing plant and the soil, a growing ____ and its market, a growing economy and its resource base, is dynamic.

Whenever one factor ceases to be limiting, growth occurs, and the growth itself changes the relative scarcity of factors until another ____ limiting.

To shift attention from the abundant ____ to the next potential limiting factor is to gain real understanding of, and control over, the growth process.

Any physical entity with multiple inputs and ____ ― a population, a production process, an economy ― is surrounded by layers of limits.

As the system develops, it ____ with and affects its own limits.

The growing entity and its limited ____ together form a coevolving dynamic system.

If we reduce ____ to a system of symbols capable of describing a bird in terms only applicable to a bird, then almost by definition it is no longer a language we ourselves understand.

____ accuracy is achieved only at the cost of total incomprehension.

What we have to do ____ is use the language we have to bridge this gap, knowing that it is systematically impure in this way and using it as sensitively and critically as we can.

That is why we rely so much on analogy and metaphor in our ordinary descriptions and evocations of birds and why we need to be open to the larger imaginative frameworks of ____ and literature as well.

Description involves language and the language is in the end a human language, which has its own history and is shot through with ____ and reverberations from that history and with meanings and metaphors drawn from human experience.

The ____ may be conscious or unconscious, dead or alive, but they are there at work.

Over hundreds of thousands of years of dwelling outside, the human organism became precisely adjusted to the characteristics of its grassy environment, so that even today, our senses and our cognition are able to easily and efficiently process the particular features present in ____ settings.

Our minds are tuned to the frequencies of the organic ____.

No such evolutionary adjustment has prepared us for the much more recent emergence of the world in which we now spend almost ____ our time: the built environment, with its sharp lines and unforgiving textures and constant motion.

We’ve set up camp amid the high­rises and highways of our ____ surroundings, but our minds are not at ease in this habitat.

The mismatch between the stimuli we evolved to process and the sights and sounds that regularly confront our senses has the ____ of depleting our limited mental resources.

We are left worn­out, fatigued, and prone to distraction, ____ as a function of the hours we spend in a setting for which we are biologically ill­equipped.

Laura Newbold ____ was an American journalist and biographer born in Missouri in 1911.

She wrote her first novel at the age of seven, and her second three ____ later.

Her family was sufficiently ____ off that she was able to continue her studies even during the difficult years of the Great Depression.

After graduating from Vassar College in 1932, she began her career as a ____ and contributed to several well­known periodicals.

In 1940, she married a lawyer and soon ____ to writing full­length nonfiction.

In 1943, her first full­length biography, Walter Reed: Doctor in ____, was published.

In 1948, she ____ a biography of Louis Pasteur, in which she detailed not only his famous achievements but lesser­known experiments.

In addition to her journalism and editorial work, Wood was active as an amateur photographer and volunteered at her children’s schools. She ____ in Massachusetts in 2003.

To date, the focus of much of the research in medicine and the health ____ has understandably been on disease processes.

Research on the physiological mechanisms linking mind and body has ____ focused primarily on the negative consequences of factors such as stress, trauma and ageing.

Whereas a large body of research exists detailing the relationship between functioning of the brain and that of systems such as the autonomic, endocrine and immune systems, most of this research has ____ on negative outcomes.

It is becoming clear that well­being and ill­being may have biological, psychological, social and spiritual causes that are only partially overlapping and attempting to understand the body ____ states of wellness rather than under conditions of illness is essentially a paradigm shift in thinking.

The positive health construct points to the intriguing ____ that the physiological mechanisms underlying thriving may be unique and may not merely mirror those underlying disease and illness.

For example, the impact of well­being on secretion patterns of ____ hormones as cortisol, serotonin and oxytocin is not just the opposite to that of stress and distress.

Distinction is ____ because it provides definition.

If ____ were identical, it would be hard to have any sense of self.

Where would that self ____ and others end?

Differentiation ____ establish a sense of identity.

Defining both ____ someone is and isn’t.

This often plays out as ____ become young adults.

Up until age twelve or thirteen, ____ are essentially extensions of their parents.

They dress the way their parents dress them, eat ____ their parents cooked, and live where their parents live.

They’re not clones of their parents (children certainly talk back or ____ particular foods), but they’ve done little to differentiate themselves.

Part of becoming an adult, though, is about ____ a unique self.

One that’s separate from one’s ____.

So teens ____.

They become vegan, date ____ boys or girls, and generally look bored or irritated whenever their parents pick them up from school.

Teens aren’t just trying to upset their parents (although it might seem that way); they’re ____ to define themselves as unique and distinct.

Creating a boundary where their identity ____ and their parents’ ends.

Politics and economics differ radically in the ____ they deal with time.

For example, when it becomes clear that the fares being charged on municipal buses are too low to permit those buses to be replaced as they wear ____, the logical economic conclusion for the long run is to raise the fares.

However, a politician who ____ the fare increase as “unjustified” may gain the votes of bus riders at the next election.

Moreover, since all the buses are not going to wear out immediately, or even simultaneously at some future date, the consequences of holding down the fare will not ____ all at once but will be spread out over time.

It may be ____ years before enough buses start breaking down and wearing out, without adequate replacements, for the bus riders to notice that there now seem to be longer waits between buses and buses do not arrive on schedule as often as they used to.

Of all the design ____ it is probably architecture that has the richest, most diverse tradition for exploring ideas.

From paper architecture to visionary design, its long history is full of ____ and inspiring examples.

There is a tension between visionary architecture, which has an outward facing social or critical agenda, and ____ architecture, which, though often introspective and concerned only with architectural theory, is rarely intended to ever be built.

One of the most interesting ____ to cross over from idea to reality is Peter Eisenman’s famous House VI, which prioritized formalist concerns over practicalities to an extreme extent.

The client later wrote about the many practical ____ it had but still loved living in such a conceptual building.

The relationship between reality and unreality is particularly interesting in architecture ____ many buildings are designed to be built but remain on paper due to economic or political reasons.

House VI is unusual because it was intentionally an uncompromising piece of architectural art someone ____ nearly live in.

It was as though the owner lived ____ an idea rather than a building.

In some cases, behavior and expectations can come to be ____ through mutual self­interest.

For example, in the early days of motor vehicles, norms emerged in which ____ came to expect everyone else to drive on the right (or left) side of the road.

Whether drivers arrived at the collective choice to drive on the right or the left mattered little, so ____ norms emerged in different parts of the world.

The key was to coordinate around ____ norm in each area and not to deviate.

In the case of driving, deviations from the expected behavior are extremely costly, likely resulting in injury or ____, so there are strong incentives to adopt a norm and follow it, making it self­enforcing.

For early drivers, empirical expectations ____ what other people would do played a crucial causal role in deciding which side of the road to drive on.

At the same time, those expectations were themselves a product of the behavior that other individuals had ____.

Hence causality flowed in both ____.

Predator­prey interactions must eventually end in death: ____ becomes dinner or the other starves.

In contrast, competition between members of the same species usually involves ____ signaling that is intended to clarify which individual is stronger before conflict escalates to the point of injury.

It is in neither the winning nor the losing party’s ____ to fight over resources, as even winners get hurt in fights.

Consequently, it is in both parties’ interests to determine who would win if the fight were to take place, with this determination followed immediately by deference or flight by the party destined to ____.

Only when ____ appear to be equally matched does a conflict over resources escalate into actual physical combat.

For this reason, competition among members of the same species rarely relies on ____ force, as the threat of force is an obstacle to conflict.

Human conflicts are guided by the same principles as those of other animals, but the fact that ____ is so common testifies to the frequency with which the two sides are unable to agree on who would win a fight.

The ideal person, at least according to an ____, would always make decisions that will result in them gaining the most utility.

This “ideal” is called rational choice theory, which is defined as the theory that people will always make the choice that maximizes their own individual satisfaction when given different ____ under scarcity.

“Scarcity” here means that there is a ____ quantity of goods ― which, since we live on a planet with finite resources, is always true in real life.

The best choices, which are the ones that lead to the ____ outcomes, should therefore come from a prediction of which choice would provide the best utility.

The ideal rational decision ____ would be so consistent in being able to carry out this process that we would be able to create a mathematical model that successfully predicts their decisions based on utility.

This would involve a complete lack of emotions, biases, or external ____.

In the world of animal ____, one thing is for sure: size matters.

The environmental stresses of being a tiny animal, like a mouse, are very different from those of a large ____, such as an elephant.

It all comes down to a little math ― specifically, surface­to­volume ____.

For a simple shape like a ____, the surface area is related to the square of its radius, while the volume is related to the cube of its radius.

It’s a bit more complicated for ____ shapes, but essentially it means that our tiny friends have a lot more surface for their volume.

Restroom rituals are not free from being ____ by the animal’s surface­to­volume ratio.

Due to their long lifespans and low metabolic rates, large ____ like elephants deal with the challenges of storing waste a bit longer, and the need to manage toxins effectively.

Their plumbing has evolved to be highly ____, capable of filtering large volumes of fluids and concentrating waste in ways that conserve water.

This is essential when roaming vast landscapes where water ____ be a luxury.

On the ____ hand, smaller animals are generally about speed, which means they aren’t quite as good at a water­saving challenge.

As forests are destroyed, we not only lose valuable ____ for countless plant and animal species, but we also contribute to climate change, diminish the Earth’s natural carbon sink, and disrupt the delicate balance of ecosystems.

Recognizing the severity of deforestation, it ____ become essential to employ various technologies to combat this destructive phenomenon.

In recent ____, advancements in technology have offered new and innovative ways to tackle deforestation.

From satellite imaging to machine ____ algorithms, these tools have enabled researchers, conservationists, and governmental organizations to monitor, manage, and reduce deforestation on an unprecedented scale.

____ of the key technologies that have revolutionized efforts against deforestation is remote sensing.

Satellites equipped with high­resolution sensors can provide a bird’s­eye view of large areas to ____ deforestation in real­time.

These ____ images allow experts to identify illegal logging activities, encroachments on protected lands, and areas at risk for deforestation.

As the number of children shrinks, the total dependency ratio (that is the ratio of workers to both the elderly and to children) ____ be slightly positively affected.

Yes, more capital and labour will need to go into building ____ homes and staffing them, but fewer resources will be required by nurseries and schools.

Manufacturers of children’s ____ can reallocate their plant and workers to making adults’ ―Japan supposedly already uses more of the latter than the former each year.

But solving the total dependency ratio by having ____ children is clearly the worst way of addressing the problem.

Children do require resources ____ society and don’t immediately put anything back, at least in economic terms.

But they are the workers of the ____.

To invest in the care of an ____ person is compassionate and morally correct.

To invest in the education and development of a young person is strengthening the seed corn for the ____ functioning of society.

The ways in which the natural world ____ over time are registered in our cultural memory.

An organization called the Snowchange Cooperative, based in northern Scandinavia, documents the ways in ____ native communities read and respond to climate change.

A Sámi woman called Gun Aira ____ that a lake whose traditional name is Biehtsejávrre, or Lake of the Pines, is now entirely surrounded by birch ― a sign of changing environmental conditions.

In this way, recognition of environmental change is ____ into native history and knowledge.

Most of us do not have access to have such extensive cultural memory banks: we are dependent upon the short attention spans of our contemporary knowledge­making ____.

All too often, this ____ us to deeper, longer changes in the world around us.

Climate change is a clear example of this: an ____ to the world occurring at such inhuman scales of time and geography that we struggle to fit it into conventional narratives, let alone respond effectively.

The arrival of digital media technology has resulted in more ____ lines of feedback than had previously been the case in media communications.

Before the ____ of digital media technology, media communicators had no immediate way of knowing whether the audience was truly involved in the communication process.

Much of the feedback in the mass communication process was delayed (e.g., letters to the editor, petitions, or phone calls), indirect (e.g., revenue from sales or critical responses) or ____ (reflecting a collective opinion).

But although ratings systems present numerical information about how many ____ watch a particular program, these ratings cannot measure whether the audience actually enjoy the program.

____, the interactive feature of digital media gives audience members the opportunity to respond immediately to media programming.

Indeed, ____ like talent competition shows incorporate audience response into the presentation, as viewers vote for their favorite performers.

Unlike earlier forms of media, where audience feedback was not direct enough to indicate genuine engagement, digital media allows an interactive environment in which audiences can respond ____ and have their responses reflected in the media content itself.

An important technical advance came with the ____ of coinage.

Some of the earliest ____ coins appeared in the ancient civilization of Lydia, located in what is now Turkey, during the seventh­century BCE.

By contrast to raw nuggets straight from the mine or river, or even variously refined precious metal bars, coined ____ and gold pieces from reputable mints enjoyed a major advantage:

They were manufactured to be uniform in weight and fineness (____ of pure precious metal).

When coins were reliably up to standard, traders did not need to be expert testers of precious metals or bear the cost of hiring an ____ to test the pieces offered because the risk from not testing was negligible.

At most they needed to weigh ____ worn coins.

The evidence is not definitive, but it ____ that many of the earliest Lydian coiners were private individuals.

Perhaps they were precious metal merchants or other rich businessmen, who could more easily spend their own metals after converting irregular pieces into uniform pieces, or perhaps they were metalsmiths, who had the know­how and could ____ others for the service.

Since they ____ the convenience of traders, it is likely that coins were already in use before political authorities established their own mints (or commandeered existing mints).

Why then would ancient kings operate their own mints and outlaw ____ competitors?

The historical record suggests that they did so mostly to have a fruitful source of revenue from monopoly minting fees and from ____.

As a bonus, ____ took advantage of the opportunity to stamp their own faces on the coins.