2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

My name ____ 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 stages of gathering information about the existing systems and understanding the requirements ____ 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 ____ more detail, including current workflows, user expectations, and any other insights you may have.

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

Thank ____ for considering my request, Ruth.

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

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

Tears ____ streaming down my face.

I prayed like ____ had 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 ____ for what seemed like an eternity.

The doctor finally came into the ____

All I could see was ____ eyes.

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

I started to cry again, ____ 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 focus on ____ application of the science, not on the science itself.

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

Nevertheless, scientists sometimes complain that the translation of ____ 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 use it, as the result will only be confusion.

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

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

This sometimes takes more time and effort ____ some researchers can 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 ____ excellence.

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

In a ____ and uncertain 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 ____ to be institutionalized.

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

The employee mind is considered similar to a black box ____ 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 opportunities of white-space growth ____ lies ahead of them.

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

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

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

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

____ make their own interpretations, and decide accordingly.

There is an often-noted parable about a ____ factory that sends two marketing scouts to a distant country to study 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 other scout responds enthusiastically that this is an ____ business opportunity since no one has shoes.

____ any situation, the meaning 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 while you might imagine a smell that ____ actually around you.

Aroma is the sense that ____ 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 ____ and we’ve learned to associate the aroma of ham with saltiness.

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

You can play with this ____

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

The next time you make a dessert such as Polenta Kheer, cut back on the amount of ____ 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 ____ 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 ____ 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 heuristic can ____ to bizarre and erroneous judgments.

Overoptimism may result from representativeness when, for example, individuals infer from knowledge about a specific car ____ 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 drivers, they will systematically underestimate the probability that they will be ____ 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 ____ of a metal merchant.

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

From 1898 until 1900, he did research under P. F. Frankland on ____ 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 ____ worked on the production of vacua for x-ray discharge tubes.

This work came to the notice of J. H. Poynting of the University of ____ 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 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 Royal ____ 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 spectrograph, which was used ____ clear up several outstanding problems and became one of the basic tools of the new atomic physics.