2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for considering my request, ____.

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

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

____ were streaming down my face.

I prayed ____ I had never prayed before.

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

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

The doctor finally ____ into the room.

____ I could see was his eyes.

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

I started to ____ again, but with joy this time that this man I loved would be by my side 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 ____ on the application of the science, not on the science itself.

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

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

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

Scientists should ____ expect people outside their discipline to understand the exact meaning they ascribe to a specialised term — even an apparently simple one like ‘model’.

____ effort should be made to re-phrase the language so that it has meaning to the audience.

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

Creativity is significantly different from pursuit of ____.

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

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

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

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

The employee mind is considered similar to a black box (“one can never fathom what happens inside a human brain, ____ is it necessary”)!

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

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

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

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

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

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

They make their own interpretations, and decide ____.

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

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

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

In any ____, 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 of ____ aromas.

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

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

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

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

You ____ play with this yourself.

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

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

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

Overoptimism may be partially explained by “____ bias.”

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

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

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

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

In this case, even if they believe they are average drivers, 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 ____ drivers are involved in accidents.

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

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

____ 1898 until 1900, 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 ____ in a home laboratory, where he worked on the production of vacua for x-ray discharge tubes.

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

He remained at Birmingham until 1910, when he moved to ____ as research assistant to J. J. Thomson.

He ____ a research fellow at Cambridge in 1920 and stayed there for the rest of his 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 of the mass ____, which was used to clear up several outstanding problems and became one of the basic tools of the new atomic physics.