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 I ____ enjoyed our weekends at Meadowbrook Public Library, where the joy of reading together has 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 ____ books we’ve accumulated over the years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

She ____ 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 ____ enormous 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 ____ kept crushing her confidence.

She told herself, I’m ____ cut out for this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is why it is so important to start ____ 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 seek, ____ 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 ____ falsehoods.

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

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

And it requires ____ 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 ____ fossil fuels in our cars.

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

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

In the same ____ says legal scholar 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 ____ goals must be achieved at all costs.

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

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

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

____ nothing but good 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 fit in with the impossible standards promoted in an organization and the demand ____ achieve success at any price.

AMBITION, DISTRACTION, UGLIFICATION, ____ DERISION.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many of us can almost ____ with Alice’s difficulty 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 dear! I shall never ____ to twenty at that rate!”

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

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

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

Many ____ 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 ____ effects.

Indeed, ____ is what archaeologists really do.

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

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

Even though we cannot observe prehistoric worldview directly, it ____ 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 ____ in Odessa, where he and his mother moved while he was still in school.

He served as a foreign correspondent in London from 1903 ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ writer and intellectual.

____ 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 from Oxford University.

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

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

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

Diagrams are as old as ____ human culture.

One could say we draw diagrams with our hands when ____

However, diagrams developed to visualize ever more ____ issues.

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

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

In our times, it developed ____ 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 patterns ____ phenomena in the data.

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

Ethics is about our thinking ____

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

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

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

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

We care deeply about good performance, about results, about ____ 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 leads to moralizing — making broad, often unsubstantiated claims about a course of action that some will accept as reflecting their moral beliefs ____ others won’t.

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

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