기출 Practice 집중의 장단점
When we narrow, we're redirecting all of our computing power to the ____ of processes that matter.
It's as if to help with our slow Wi-Fi, we ____ our phone and tablet, just so that our video conference call won't lag.
Narrowing also helps with ____ attainment.
It cuts out all of the other ____ 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 ____ moment, the trade-off can be worthwhile, but when we remain zoomed in for too long, we start to miss cues and signals.
We get locked in on one path without being ____ to step back and see a better route.
When we're stuck narrowed in for too long, ____ go up and performance drops.
We ____ hearing alarms 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 thing that would help, if you're having a bad day, is to play something that ____ that negativity.
____ wouldn't a sad person listen to happy music?
The reason is that when you're feeling ____ or depressed, it's often because you feel misunderstood — that the people around you don't appreciate what you're going through.
If you were to listen to happy music ____ in this state, it would only amplify that feeling of detachment.
On the other hand, if you put on the right ____ of sad music, you can say to yourself, 'That's exactly how I feel. This musician understands me.'
So the ____ music turns out to be soothing — a companion to your misery, as it were.
2 글쓰기를 통한 진실 전달의 한계
There is a long-running and, so far, inconclusive debate ____ what constitutes truth and how to represent that truth in writing.
A common ____ is that standard non-fiction writing conveys facts which equate to reality.
Of course, there is some ____ in this, but it is not the whole truth.
In ____, it is impossible to use words to describe the whole truth of anything.
I can write 'a cup is on my desk', and that is true — there is a ____ on my desk.
Even though you can't see it, you ____ believe me, because a cup on a desk is quite an ordinary sight.
But to tell the 'whole truth' of that cup would involve ____ it in infinite detail: its colours and shapes, its history, how it was made, by whom, from what, where those materials came from, the number of times it has been used, when, for what, and so on.
Writing can only communicate partial truth, and writers make ____ all the time about what to include and what to leave out.
3 과학적 다수 의견의 형성 과정
The ____ of scientific majority opinions concerning complex societal issues takes place in the form of processes of opinion formation.
This is made reassuringly clear by references to, for instance, 'the accumulation of collective opinion', 'accepted interpretation', 'sufficient consensus' and to aims of '____ over peer scientists.'
Only, at some stage during the processes of opinion formation — probably when a majority opinion appears to have evolved — they somehow cease to be connected to ____.
Instead, the outcome of the processes, the majority ____, is promoted to the rank of the scientific consensus; opinion is transformed into scientific knowledge.
As such, it is by convention protected from sceptical and ____ enquiry by non-specialists and by specialists adhering to minority opinions alike.
From this point on, the exercise of critique of the majority opinion comes to be perceived as an ____ 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 ____ to being tested against observations in a contrived, experimental environment, and eventually ends in a definitive conclusion.
But history commonly recognises people as ____ who have not strictly followed such a method (and even praises them for their contributions to scientific knowledge).
Physics is full of amazing discoveries that have resulted ____ so much from experimentation but from mathematical deductions, or even numerous hours of patiently watching the sky or perhaps looking through photographs.
The discovery of phenomena such as black holes or subatomic particles is often seeded in ____ that we typically think of as scientific, long before they are found or identified by an experiment under controlled conditions.
While evolution can be demonstrated in the laboratory ____, Darwin 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 ____ seat, the more will come in the door.
This is why they will seat the first customers of the evening close to the ____ and why they don't mind a line of people waiting to be seated.
They understand that the more people there are signaling their interest in the restaurant, the greater the reinforcing feedback loop communicating how wonderful their ____ is.
Farnsworth explains, "People draw inferences from what they see others doing and do the same; ____ even more people are doing it, and they create a still stronger impression on the rest."
People who were on the fence ____ the restaurant will be drawn in by the apparent interest.
As they join the line, the interest of the next threshold level (the ____ number of customers) gets piqued.