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 has become a ____ 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 accumulated ____ the years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

She was gripped by a nearly ____ fear.

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

Now she was ____ 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 once more to walk across the ____.

The voice of fear kept crushing her ____.

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

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

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

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

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

When ____ start where your students 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 ____ in other things.

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

It comes only after they have experienced the ____ 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 ____ heretofore an unachievable goal.

This is why it is so important to ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ to pollute the infosphere with falsehood and hot air.

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

And it requires ____ discipline.

When we unthinkingly boost the signal of some ____, 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 ____, 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 ____ we acted collectively.

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

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

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

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 ____ professional mistake without risking sanctions or punishment, including dismissal.

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

Hearing ____ 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 ____ concealed to fit 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 ____ not hold too many illusions about his pupils’ calculation abilities. And perhaps he was right.

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

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

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

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

Calculation errors are so widespread that far from stigmatizing ignorance, they ____ 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 while traveling through ____:

“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 ____, 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 ____ traits.

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

Many archaeologists are wary of studying ____ 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 ____, that is, through their material effects.

Indeed, this is what ____ really do.

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

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 ____: it guided technology, subsistence, and adaptive behavior and in many cases caused it.

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

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

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

Upon his ____ 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 Blok, 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 ____ 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 ____ and science that are about visualizing complex information.

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

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

____ are as old as advanced human culture.

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

However, diagrams developed to visualize ever more complex ____.

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

Her diagrams are an excellent example of how quantitative data is made ____ 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 ____ streams, one based on graphic design and the other driven by scientific visualization.

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

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

Ethics is about our thinking ____.

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

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

The focus is on the quality of the deliberative process and ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ is to figure out which one is most justifiable as you see it and which embodies key values.