2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

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

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

As I embark on this task, I’m in the initial stages of gathering information about ____ 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 ____ of this endeavor.

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

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

Thank you for considering my request, ____

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

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

____ were streaming down my face.

I prayed ____ I had never prayed 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 ____ back up to the waiting room and sat there with our daughter for what seemed like an eternity.

The doctor finally came into the ____

All I ____ see was his eyes.

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

I started ____ cry 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 ____ public, for government and even industry usually focus on the application of the science, not on the science itself.

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

Nevertheless, scientists sometimes complain that ____ 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 misunderstand — or, worse, completely misinterpret what is being said — then it makes no sense to ____ it, as the result will only be confusion.

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

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

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

Creativity is significantly ____ from pursuit of excellence.

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

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

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

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 black box (“one can never fathom what happens inside a human ____ 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 ____ go through the black boxes, companies miss out on the opportunities of white-space growth that lies ahead of them.

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

It is our interpretation of external events that gives them ____

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

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

They make their own interpretations, and ____ accordingly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aroma is ____ 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 taste like.

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

In a taste experiment, the presence of “ham aroma” in food samples ____ a group of people 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 start to ____ those aromas with sweetness.

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

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

Overoptimism may ____ partially explained by “representativeness bias.”

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

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

However, when this assumption fails, ____ representativeness heuristic 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 bad driver that bad driving correlates with ____ more highly than it does in fact.

In ____ 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 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 was educated at Mason ____ the forerunner of Birmingham University, where he studied chemistry.

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

During ____ time he continued with scientific research 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 Cambridge ____ research assistant to J. J. Thomson.

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