2026 수능완성 실전모의고사 1회 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

As my husband approaches retirement, ____ decided to return to our roots in Cedar Falls.

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

We would be delighted ____ these beloved volumes could find a new 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 ____ best way to coordinate this donation.

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

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

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

____ was gripped by a nearly overwhelming fear.

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

Now she was dangling ____ the line.

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

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

The voice of fear ____ crushing her confidence.

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

Gradually, though, Faith’s fear transformed into ____

After multiple falls wearing the harness, she knew she was ____

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

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

When you start where your students are, ____ 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 ____ other things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This requires a ____ of cognitive and linguistic literacy: an awareness of 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 ____ 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 ____ to the problem does not make a difference in the larger context.

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

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

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

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

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

In some organizations, ____ state 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 ____ news from their cowed employees, executives are under the illusion that everything is going well.

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

AMBITION, DISTRACTION, UGLIFICATION, and ____

These are the playful names Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics ____ 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 ____ he was right.

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

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

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

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

Calculation ____ are so widespread that far 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 ____ as she attempts to calculate while traveling through Wonderland:

“Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is — oh ____ 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 ____ culture.

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

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

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

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

Indeed, this is what archaeologists really ____

We do ____ excavate technology, subsistence, or adaption, for example.

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

Even though we cannot observe prehistoric ____ 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 ____ a young peasant woman and her Jewish husband.

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

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

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

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

After the Russian 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 ____ Oxford University.

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

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

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

Diagrams are ____ old as advanced human culture.

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

____ diagrams developed to visualize ever more complex issues.

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

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

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

With ____ rise of the computer information, visualization crystallized in several streams, 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 made it possible to identify ____ and phenomena in the data.

Information visualization is developing its aesthetics and as a craft and, ____ 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, ethics is concerned ____ asking the right questions.

The focus is on the quality of the deliberative process and not on the ____

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

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

But expecting ethics to provide the necessary “correct” ____ 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 any fully acceptable solutions and instead offer ____ options that are unsatisfactory in some way.

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