2026 수능완성 실전모의고사 1회 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She was gripped by a ____ overwhelming fear.

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

Now she was dangling ____ the line.

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

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

The voice of fear ____ crushing her confidence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have opportunities to ____ 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 ____ a form of cognitive and linguistic literacy: an awareness of how language works on the mind and in social interaction.

And it requires ____ discipline.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AMBITION, DISTRACTION, ____, and DERISION.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Calculation errors are so widespread that ____ from stigmatizing 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 ____ to calculate while traveling through Wonderland:

“Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four ____ 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 over-emphasize the importance of physical objects versus social aspects of ____.

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

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

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

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

Indeed, this is ____ archaeologists really do.

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

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

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

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

Korney Chukovsky began his career as a journalist in Odessa, ____ he and his mother moved while he was still 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 Anglophone poets, as ____ 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 ____ and 1913, the young Chukovsky flourished as a writer and intellectual.

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

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

The main purpose of this field is to make ____ accessible.

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

____ are as old as advanced human culture.

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

However, diagrams developed to visualize ____ more complex issues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ethics is about our ____ process.

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

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

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

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

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

But expecting ethics to ____ the necessary “correct” answers usually just leads 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 ____ fully acceptable solutions and instead offer several options that are unsatisfactory in some way.

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