2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

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

One of my ____ 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 ____ to ensure the success of this endeavor.

I would greatly ____ the 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 possible for us to schedule a ____ later this week at your convenience?

Thank you for considering my request, ____.

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

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

Tears were ____ down my face.

I prayed like I ____ never prayed before.

I just ____ to see this man whom 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 ____ an eternity.

The doctor finally came into the ____.

All I ____ see was his eyes.

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

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

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

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

However, if the use of scientific ____ will only cause the audience to misunderstand — 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’.

Every effort should be ____ to re-phrase 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 growing value of the skilled communicator as a messenger and interpreter between science and ____.

Creativity is significantly different ____ pursuit of excellence.

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

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

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

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

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

For most organizations, their environmental view rarely goes beyond an explored business ____ 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 out on the ____ 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 ____ them meaning.

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

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

They make their own ____, and decide accordingly.

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

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

The other scout responds enthusiastically that this is an outstanding ____ 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 ____ that’s become increasingly popular among food scientists is the arena of phantom aromas.

Once in a while you ____ 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 ____ cooking to trick our brain to reconstruct what it perceives the food should taste like.

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

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

You can ____ with this yourself.

If you repeatedly use aromatic spices ____ as cinnamon, rosewater, and vanilla in desserts, you start 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 ____ is the result 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 heuristic 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 ____ assessing probabilities.

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

Overoptimism may result from ____ when, 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 ____, 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 William Aston, a British chemist and physicist, was born in Harborne, England, the son of a metal ____.

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

From ____ 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 research in a home laboratory, where he worked on the production of vacua for ____ 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 ____, 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 his life, apart from the war years spent at the ____ Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

Aston’s main work, for which he ____ the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1922, was on the design and use 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.