2026 수능완성 실전모의고사 1회 변형 (18-30번)

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

For the past 20 years, my ____ and I have 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 retirement, ____ decided to return to our roots in Cedar Falls.

While packing for ____ new chapter, we’ve discovered an extensive collection or books we’ve 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 ____ joy we’ve experienced at Meadowbrook with others in the community.

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

We’re deeply grateful ____ the wonderful experiences 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 I ____ do this right I could kill myself.

____ was gripped by a nearly overwhelming fear.

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

Now ____ was dangling below the line.

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

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

The voice of fear kept crushing ____ confidence.

She told herself, I’m not cut out for ____

Gradually, ____ Faith’s fear transformed into resolution.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For many of our students, intrinsic motivation has to be ____

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

At the ____ many 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 ____ 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 we must seek, then ____ 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 have responsibilities not to pollute the infosphere with falsehood and hot ____

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

And it requires intellectual ____

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 ____ fuels in our cars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In some organizations, a state of total fear of ____ 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 ____ success, they falsify their achievements and embellish reality.

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

When a crisis ____ 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 to achieve success at any price.

AMBITION, ____ UGLIFICATION, and DERISION.

These ____ 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 ____ illusions about his pupils’ calculation abilities. And perhaps he was right.

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

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

Who can say that they ____ get 7 × 9 or 8 × 7 wrong?

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

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

Many ____ us can almost identify 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! ____ shall never get to twenty at that rate!”

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

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

Such ____ can be symptomatic of 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 observable ____ the archaeological record.

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

____ this is what archaeologists really do.

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

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

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

Korney Chukovsky was born in St. Petersburg to ____ young peasant 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ as a writer and intellectual.

After the Russian Revolution, Chukovsky remained in the ____ 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 ____ complex information.

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

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

Diagrams are as old as advanced human ____

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

However, diagrams developed to visualize ____ more complex issues.

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

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

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

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

Ethics is ____ 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 for how ____ deal with different types of problems.

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

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

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

We care deeply about good performance, about results, about the bottom line — often ____ 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 — ____ 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 unsatisfactory in some ____

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