2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

Dear Ruth Allen, I hope this ____ finds you well.

My ____ is Orville Rivera and I recently joined the team to work on various corporate strategy initiatives.

One ____ my current responsibilities is to lead the quality systems project.

As I embark on this task, I’m in the initial ____ of gathering information about the existing systems and understanding the requirements from the users’ perspective.

Given your role and expertise, I believe your insights would be invaluable to ensure the success of this ____

I would greatly appreciate ____ opportunity to discuss the project with you in more detail, including current workflows, user expectations, and any other insights you may have.

Would it be ____ for us to schedule a meeting later this week at your convenience?

Thank you for ____ my request, Ruth.

The day came for the operation, and we arrived at the ____ early in the morning.

Sal ____ taken into surgery, and I went down to the chapel to pray.

____ were streaming down my face.

I prayed like I had never ____ before.

I just wanted to see this man ____ I loved so much come out of the surgery and be free of this threatening disease.

I went back up to the waiting room and sat there with our daughter for what seemed like an ____

____ doctor finally came into the room.

All I could see ____ his eyes.

He said that the surgery went ____ and they removed any possible lingering cancer cells.

I started to cry again, but with joy this time that this man I loved would be by my ____ again, healthy and smiling and looking forward to all the beautiful things that life had in store for us.

Avoiding scientific jargon is not as hard as it seems, as articles written for the public, for government and even industry usually focus on the ____ of the science, not on the science itself.

It is nearly ____ possible to describe the application of science in plain language.

Nevertheless, scientists sometimes complain that the translation of science into plain language ‘devalues’ it ____ ‘dumbs it down’.

However, if the use of scientific terminology will only cause the audience to misunderstand — or, worse, completely misinterpret what ____ being said — then it makes no sense to use it, as the result will only be confusion.

Scientists should never expect ____ outside their discipline to understand the exact meaning they ascribe to a specialised term — even an apparently simple one like ‘model’.

Every effort should be made to ____ the language so that it has meaning to the audience.

This sometimes takes more time and effort than some researchers can spare, and is the reason for the ____ value of the skilled communicator as a messenger and interpreter between science and society.

Creativity is significantly different ____ pursuit of excellence.

When limits to excellence begin to operate, only creativity ____ innovation can take companies to different trajectories.

In a competitive and uncertain world, companies that are creative would ____ certainly have advantage over companies that are not.

Nevertheless, creativity figures low in corporate agenda ____ a work or organizational ethic that needs to be institutionalized.

For most organizations, only the visible ____ of an employee mind to follow the prescribed practices is relevant.

The employee mind is considered similar to a ____ box (“one can never fathom what happens inside a human brain, nor is it necessary”)!

For most organizations, their environmental view rarely goes beyond ____ explored business canvas into unexplored white spaces (“one has to have deep pockets to lose money on white spaces”)!

By failing to dip into the thought processes that go through the black boxes, companies miss ____ on the opportunities of white-space growth that lies ahead of them.

Life is perhaps 5% (or less) what happens to us and 95% (or more) how we ____ and respond to what is happening.

It is our interpretation of external events ____ gives them meaning.

Situations ____ circumstances are neutral until we decide what they mean whether positive, negative, or insignificant.

Individuals in the excellence category refuse to accept the limiting biases and judgments ____ others.

They make ____ own interpretations, and decide accordingly.

There is an often-noted parable about a shoe factory that sends two marketing ____ to a distant country to study the possibilities of expanding the shoe business.

The first ____ sends back a message that the situation is hopeless, no one wears shoes, and there is no market.

The other scout responds ____ that this is an outstanding business opportunity since no one has shoes.

In ____ situation, the meaning we give to circumstances determines what we see and how we think and act.

One area of research that’s become increasingly popular among food scientists is the arena ____ phantom aromas.

Once in a while you might imagine a smell that isn’t actually around ____

Aroma is the sense that is most strongly associated with memory, and this ____ can be manipulated during cooking to trick our brain to reconstruct what it perceives the food should taste like.

Ham ____ a salt-cured meat, and we’ve learned to associate the aroma of ham with saltiness.

In a taste experiment, the presence of “ham aroma” in food samples convinced a group ____ people that their food tasted saltier.

You can ____ with this yourself.

If you repeatedly use ____ spices such as cinnamon, rosewater, and vanilla in desserts, you start to associate those aromas with sweetness.

The next time you make a dessert such as Polenta Kheer, cut back on the amount ____ added sweetener and add a bit more of the “sweeter” aromatic spice.

Your ____ companions will probably find that the dessert tastes very sweet.

Overoptimism may be partially explained by “representativeness ____

Representativeness bias is the result of a heuristic whereby individuals generalize from particular “representative” cases, even when better general statistical information ____

It is easy to see why the representativeness heuristic might be useful in everyday reasoning — specific information is often more accurate ____ more useful than general information, and favoring it may represent a useful cognitive shortcut when assessing probabilities.

However, when this assumption fails, the representativeness heuristic can ____ to bizarre and erroneous judgments.

Overoptimism may result from representativeness ____ for example, individuals infer from knowledge about a specific car accident involving a bad driver that bad driving correlates with accidents more highly than it does in fact.

In this case, even if they believe they are average ____ they will systematically underestimate the probability that they will be involved in an accident, because the representativeness heuristic will have generated an underestimation of the probability that average drivers are involved in accidents.

Francis ____ Aston, a British chemist and physicist, was born in Harborne, England, the son of a metal merchant.

He ____ educated at Mason College, the forerunner of Birmingham University, where he studied chemistry.

From 1898 until ____ he did research under P. F. Frankland on optical rotation. He left Birmingham in 1900 to work in a Wolverhampton brewery for three years.

During this time he continued with scientific research in a home laboratory, where he worked on the production ____ vacua for x-ray discharge tubes.

This work came to the notice of J. H. Poynting of the University of Birmingham, who invited Aston to ____ with him.

He remained at Birmingham until ____ when he moved to Cambridge as research assistant to J. J. Thomson.

He became a research fellow at Cambridge in 1920 and stayed there for the rest of ____ life, apart from the war years spent at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

Aston’s main work, for which he received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1922, was on the design and use ____ the mass spectrograph, which was used to clear up several outstanding problems and became one of the basic tools of the new atomic physics.