2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

My name is ____ Rivera and I recently joined the team to work on various corporate 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 the existing systems and understanding the requirements from the users’ ____.

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

I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to discuss the project with you in more ____, 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 ____, and we arrived at the hospital early in the morning.

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

Tears were streaming ____ my face.

I prayed like I ____ never prayed before.

I just wanted to see this ____ 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 ____ was his eyes.

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

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

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

Nevertheless, scientists sometimes complain that the translation of science into plain ____ ‘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 ____.

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

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

This sometimes takes more time and effort than ____ 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 ____ different from pursuit of excellence.

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

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

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

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

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

For most organizations, their environmental view rarely goes beyond an explored business canvas into unexplored white spaces (“one has to have ____ 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) what ____ 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 ____.

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

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

They ____ their own interpretations, 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 first scout sends back a message that the situation is hopeless, no ____ wears shoes, and there is no market.

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

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

One area of research that’s become increasingly popular ____ food scientists is the arena of 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 relationship can be manipulated during cooking to ____ 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” in food ____ convinced 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 associate those aromas with ____.

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

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

Overoptimism may be partially explained by “____ bias.”

Representativeness bias is the result of a heuristic whereby ____ 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 ____ shortcut when assessing probabilities.

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

Overoptimism may result from representativeness when, for example, individuals infer from ____ 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 drivers, they will systematically underestimate the probability that they will be involved in an accident, because the ____ heuristic will have generated an underestimation of the probability that average drivers are involved in accidents.

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

He was educated at Mason College, the forerunner of ____ 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 a Wolverhampton ____ for three years.

During this time he continued with scientific research in a home ____, where he 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 Birmingham, who invited Aston to ____ with him.

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

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

Aston’s main work, for which he received the ____ 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.