기출 Practice 집중의 장단점
____ we narrow, we're redirecting all of our computing power to the handful of processes that matter.
It's as if to help with our slow ____, we disconnect our phone and tablet, just so that our video conference call won't lag.
Narrowing also ____ with goal attainment.
It cuts out ____ of the other distractions and places the most important goal front and center.
When we home in, we increase motivational intensity, reinforcing that what's in front of us is what we should be ____.
For a brief moment, the trade-off can be worthwhile, but when we remain zoomed in for too long, we start to ____ cues and signals.
We get locked in on one path without being ____ to step back and see a better route.
When we're ____ narrowed in for too long, accidents go up and performance drops.
We miss hearing ____ that signal there's a problem elsewhere.
1 우울할 때 위안이 되는 슬픈 음악
Interestingly, if you're sad, then listening to sad music can sometimes improve your ____.
You might suppose that the last ____ that would help, if you're having a bad day, is to play something that reflects that negativity.
____ wouldn't a sad person listen to happy music?
The reason is that when you're feeling down or depressed, it's often ____ you feel misunderstood — that the people around you don't appreciate what you're going through.
If you were to listen to happy music while in this state, it ____ only amplify that feeling of detachment.
On the other hand, if you put on the right piece of sad music, you can say to yourself, ____ exactly how I feel. This musician understands me.'
So the sad music turns out to be soothing — a companion to your ____, as it were.
2 글쓰기를 통한 진실 전달의 한계
There is a long-running and, so ____, inconclusive debate about what constitutes truth and how to represent that truth in writing.
A common misconception is that standard non-fiction ____ conveys facts which equate to reality.
Of course, there is some ____ in this, but it is not the whole truth.
In fact, it is impossible to use words to describe the whole truth of ____.
I can ____ 'a cup is on my desk', and that is true — there is a cup on my desk.
Even though you can't ____ it, you probably believe me, because a cup on a desk is quite an ordinary sight.
But to tell the 'whole truth' of that cup would involve describing it in infinite detail: its colours and shapes, its history, how it was made, by whom, from what, where those materials came ____, the number of times it has been used, when, for what, and so on.
Writing can only communicate partial truth, and writers make choices all the time about ____ to include and what to leave out.
3 과학적 다수 의견의 형성 과정
The shaping of scientific majority opinions concerning complex societal issues takes place in the form of processes of opinion ____.
This is made reassuringly clear by references to, for instance, 'the accumulation of collective opinion', '____ interpretation', 'sufficient consensus' and to aims of 'winning over peer scientists.'
Only, at some stage during the processes of opinion formation — probably when a ____ opinion appears to have evolved — they somehow cease to be connected to opinions.
Instead, the outcome of the processes, the majority opinion, is promoted to the rank of the scientific consensus; opinion is transformed into scientific ____.
As such, it is by convention protected ____ sceptical and critical enquiry by non-specialists and by specialists adhering to minority opinions alike.
From this ____ on, the exercise of critique of the majority opinion comes to be perceived as an expression of hostility to science and may be labelled as the 'manufacture' of doubt and uncertainty.
4 과학적 발견과 실험
Science is frequently described as the principles informing an activity: a method that starts with a question phrased as a statement, or a 'hypothesis', which progresses to being tested against observations in a ____, experimental environment, and eventually ends in a definitive conclusion.
But history commonly recognises people as scientists who have ____ strictly followed such a method (and even praises them for their contributions to scientific knowledge).
Physics is full of amazing discoveries that have resulted not so much from experimentation but from mathematical deductions, or even numerous hours of ____ watching the sky or perhaps looking through photographs.
The discovery of phenomena such as black holes or subatomic particles is often seeded in extrapolations that we typically think of as scientific, long before they are ____ or identified by an experiment under controlled conditions.
While evolution can be demonstrated in the laboratory today, ____ had no such luxury and relied on comparisons he could make between diverse environments.
5 신호 보내기의 효과
____ are aware of the effects of signaling.
They know that the more customers you seat, the more will ____ in the door.
This is why they will seat the first customers of the evening close to the window and why they ____ mind a line of people waiting to be seated.
They understand that the ____ people there are signaling their interest in the restaurant, the greater the reinforcing feedback loop communicating how wonderful their restaurant is.
Farnsworth explains, "People ____ inferences from what they see others doing and do the same; now even more people are doing it, and they create a still stronger impression on the rest."
People who were on the fence about the restaurant will be drawn in by the apparent ____.
As they join the line, the interest of the next threshold level (the next number of customers) gets ____.