2026 수능완성 실전모의고사 1회 변형 (18-30번)

____ Ms. Thompson, I trust this note finds you in good spirits.

For the past 20 years, my husband and ____ have enjoyed our weekends at Meadowbrook Public Library, where the joy of reading together has become a treasured part of our lives.

As ____ husband approaches retirement, we’ve decided to return to our roots in Cedar Falls.

While packing for this new chapter, we’ve discovered an extensive collection ____ books we’ve accumulated over the years.

We would be delighted if these beloved volumes could find a ____ home through your library’s upcoming free book giveaway event.

It would be a ____ way to share the joy we’ve experienced at Meadowbrook with others in the community.

Please let us know the best way ____ coordinate this donation.

We’re deeply grateful for the wonderful experiences we’ve had at ____ library.

Once she strapped on the safety gear, Faith climbed up ____ stood at the edge of the highline.

Oh man, if I don’t do this right I could kill ____

She was gripped by a nearly ____ fear.

Her body shook as she tried to walk across ____ narrow line — and fell.

Now she ____ dangling below the line.

It took enormous strength to climb the rope to ____ back up.

Trying a few more times, she fell again and again, each time climbing back up to try ____ more to walk across the line.

The voice of fear kept crushing ____ confidence.

____ told herself, I’m not cut out for this.

Gradually, though, Faith’s fear transformed ____ resolution.

After multiple falls wearing ____ harness, she knew she was safe.

Still, attached to her leash and ____ below each line, she knew she was going to keep trying.

____ told herself that it was important to fall in order to reinforce the fact that she was safe.

When you start where your students ____ you don’t think in terms of “should.”

If ____ want to motivate students to learn, first find out what currency they are spending (or what currency they value), and pay them in that currency.

From there, you can ____ them how to find the reward in other things.

For many of our students, intrinsic motivation has ____ be developed.

It comes only after ____ have experienced the pleasure of doing well and know the rewards of success.

At the beginning, many of our students haven’t experienced ____ academic success and are not convinced that it will bring any pleasure.

In fact, academic success has been a source ____ pain for them because it has been heretofore an unachievable goal.

This is why it is so important to start with what motivates them and then, as they experience more success, ____ them transfer or become motivated by that success.

If truth is what ____ must seek, then we have both opportunities and responsibilities.

We have opportunities ____ discover facts, which by virtue of being true are likely to be useful, certainly more useful than falsehoods.

And we have responsibilities not to pollute the infosphere with falsehood and hot ____

This requires a form of cognitive and linguistic literacy: an awareness ____ how language works on the mind and in social interaction.

And ____ requires intellectual discipline.

When we unthinkingly boost the signal of some misinformation, even just by “liking” a post we haven’t fact-checked, the effect is like burning fossil fuels in ____ cars.

As individuals, when we produce emissions, we feel that our singular contribution to the problem does not ____ a difference in the larger context.

But of course it would make a difference ____ only we acted collectively.

In the same way, says legal scholar Ilya Somin, “Widespread public ignorance is a type ____ pollution that infects the political system.”

Ambitious business development goals impose high pressure on all employees ____ demonstrate personal achievements and improvement.

Companies often create a climate in which ____ must be achieved at all costs.

Managers will not tolerate subordinates bringing them bad news, demanding to see ____ successful results.

In some organizations, a state of total fear of the management develops: it becomes almost impossible to admit any ____ mistake without risking sanctions or punishment, including dismissal.

Some employees cannot function well under this pressure and, to preserve the impression ____ success, they falsify their achievements and embellish reality.

Hearing nothing but good news from their ____ employees, executives are under the illusion that everything is going well.

When a crisis finally comes, it ____ out that the real situation was being concealed to fit in with the impossible standards promoted in an organization and the demand to achieve success at any price.

____ DISTRACTION, UGLIFICATION, and DERISION.

____ are the playful names Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics professor better known to us as Lewis Carroll, gave to the four arithmetical operations.

Obviously, Carroll did not hold too many illusions about his pupils’ calculation abilities. And perhaps he was ____

While children easily ____ number syntax, learning to calculate can be a challenge.

Children, and even adults, often err in the most elementary ____ calculations.

Who can say that they never get ____ × 9 or 8 × 7 wrong?

How many of ____ can mentally compute 113 – 37 or 10 – 24 in less than two seconds?

Calculation errors are so widespread that far from ____ ignorance, they attract sympathy when they are admitted publicly (“I’ve always been hopeless at math!”).

Many of us can almost identify with Alice’s difficulty as she attempts to calculate ____ traveling through Wonderland:

“Let me see: ____ times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is — oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!”

Because archaeologists study material culture, it is easy to ____ the importance of physical objects versus social aspects of culture.

Culture and worldview, however, are far removed from a ____ of material-culture traits.

Such traits can be symptomatic ____ different kinds of society, but they can never be definitive: only social phenomena can define social formations.

Many archaeologists are wary of studying social phenomena because they are not directly ____ in the archaeological record.

It is nevertheless possible to study social aspects of culture in the same way as natural scientists study unobservables, that ____ through their material effects.

____ this is what archaeologists really do.

We do not excavate technology, subsistence, or ____ for example.

These concepts are no less abstract than worldview, and ____ are derived from theory.

Even though we cannot observe ____ worldview directly, it was no less real: it guided technology, subsistence, and adaptive behavior and in many cases caused it.

Korney Chukovsky was born in St. Petersburg to a young ____ woman and her Jewish husband.

Korney Chukovsky began his career as a journalist in Odessa, where he and his mother moved while he was ____ in school.

He served as a foreign correspondent in London from 1903 to 1905, having taught ____ English.

Upon his return to Russia, he immersed himself in the literary scene, translating Walt Whitman and other ____ poets, as well as writing lively and penetrating essays on the leading Russian writers of the day, including the poet Aleksandr Blok, who was a personal friend.

Between 1907 and 1913, the young Chukovsky flourished as a writer ____ intellectual.

After the Russian Revolution, Chukovsky remained in the Soviet Union and concentrated on translation and children’s ____ for which he is now best remembered. In 1962 he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.

There are several fields of expertise found in the intersection of graphic design and science that ____ about visualizing complex information.

The main purpose of this field is to make information ____

There is a direct ____ from diagramming to information visualization and design.

Diagrams are as ____ as advanced human culture.

One could ____ we draw diagrams with our hands when gesturing.

However, ____ developed to visualize ever more complex issues.

Florence Nightingale was an early user of diagrams ____ communicate statistics.

Her diagrams are an excellent example of how quantitative data is ____ accessible with visualization to trigger action and change.

In ____ times, it developed into a universe of advanced diagrams described by, for example, Tufte.

With the rise of the computer information, visualization crystallized in several streams, one based on graphic design and the ____ driven by scientific visualization.

Rich quantitative information that before was impossible to interpret was now visualized in a way that made it possible to identify ____ and phenomena in the data.

Information visualization is developing ____ aesthetics and as a craft and, one might say, an art form.

Ethics ____ about our thinking process.

The experience of learning about ethics can be frustrating for students who expect to walk out of class armed with clear-cut answers ____ how to deal with different types of problems.

But in fact, such direct answers are rare ____ ethics. Instead, ethics is concerned with asking the right questions.

The focus is on the ____ of the deliberative process and not on the outcome.

This ____ be discomforting because so much of Western culture is goal oriented.

We care deeply about good performance, about results, ____ the bottom line — often with only passing interest in how we achieve those goals or what we do to attain “success.”

But expecting ethics to provide the necessary “correct” answers usually just ____ to moralizing — making broad, often unsubstantiated claims about a course of action that some will accept as reflecting their moral beliefs and others won’t.

Most ethical dilemmas don’t present any fully acceptable solutions and instead offer several options that are ____ in some way.

The trick is to figure out which one is most justifiable as ____ see it and which embodies key values.