2026년 7월 고3 모의고사 영어 빈칸 퀴즈

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

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

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

The large buildup of ____ attracts animals and insects, which has 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.

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

____ you for your time and consideration.

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

Dreadful weather and ____ hunger had drained him of strength.

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

There seemed no escape ____ the sea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you are being brought down by people at work for something like your weight, then the issue is ____ 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 others, it’s easy to ____ you’re missing some skill or secret that others have.

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

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

When ____ is viewed as more extraordinary 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 someone well do you realize the best you ____ 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 important difference ____ someone whose specific talent should be celebrated versus someone whose ideas should never be questioned.

Eat the orange, throw away the ____.

There are layers of limits around every growing plant, child, new product, technological advance, company, city, ____, 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 ____, a growing company 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 ____ the relative scarcity of factors until another becomes limiting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What we have to do instead is use the language we ____ 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 ____ and evocations of birds and why we need to be open to the larger imaginative frameworks of art 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 echoes and reverberations from that history and with meanings and metaphors drawn from ____ experience.

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

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 ____ are able to easily and efficiently process the particular features present in natural settings.

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

No such evolutionary adjustment ____ prepared us for the much more recent emergence of the world in which we now spend almost all 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 modern surroundings, but our ____ are not at ease in this habitat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1948, she published a biography of Louis Pasteur, in ____ 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 died in ____ in 2003.

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

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

Whereas a large body of ____ 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 focused 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 during states of wellness ____ than under conditions of illness is essentially a paradigm shift in thinking.

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

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

Distinction is valuable because it provides ____.

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

Where would that self start and ____ end?

Differentiation helps establish a sense of ____.

Defining ____ who someone is and isn’t.

This often plays out as children become young ____.

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

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

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

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

____ that’s separate from one’s parents.

So ____ rebel.

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

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

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

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

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

However, a politician ____ opposes 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 ____ will not appear all at once but will be spread out over time.

It may be some 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 ____ on schedule as often as they used to.

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

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

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

One of the most ____ examples 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 ____ about the many practical problems it had but still loved living in such a conceptual building.

The relationship between reality and ____ is particularly interesting in architecture because 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 ____ piece of architectural art someone could nearly live in.

It was as though the owner lived inside an idea ____ 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 different norms ____ in different parts of the world.

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

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

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

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

Hence ____ flowed in both directions.

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

In contrast, ____ between members of the same species usually involves elaborate 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 interest to ____ 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 ____ by deference or flight by the party destined to lose.

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

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

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

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

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

“Scarcity” here means that ____ is a limited 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 best outcomes, should therefore come from a prediction of which ____ would provide the best utility.

The ideal rational decision maker ____ 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, ____, or external influences.

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

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

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

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

____ a bit more complicated for animal 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 animals like elephants deal with the challenges of storing waste a ____ longer, and the need to manage toxins effectively.

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

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

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

As forests are ____, we not only lose valuable habitats 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 ____ of deforestation, it has become essential to employ various technologies to combat this destructive phenomenon.

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

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

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

Satellites equipped with high­resolution sensors can provide a bird’s­eye view of large areas to detect ____ 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 ____ to both the elderly and to children) will be slightly positively affected.

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

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

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

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

But they are the ____ of the future.

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

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

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

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

A ____ woman called Gun Aira notes 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 encoded into ____ history and knowledge.

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

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

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

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

Before the age of digital media technology, media communicators had no immediate way of knowing ____ 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., ____ from sales or critical responses) or cumulative (reflecting a collective opinion).

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

However, the interactive feature of digital media ____ 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 ____ allows an interactive environment in which audiences can respond instantly and have their responses reflected in the media content itself.

An important technical ____ came with the introduction of coinage.

____ of the earliest known 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 silver and gold pieces from reputable mints enjoyed a ____ advantage:

They were ____ to be uniform in weight and fineness (percentage 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 expert to ____ the pieces offered because the risk from not testing was negligible.

At most they needed to ____ visibly worn coins.

The evidence is not definitive, but it indicates that many of the earliest Lydian coiners were ____ 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 ____, who had the know­how and could charge others for the service.

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

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

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

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