2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

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

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

As I embark on this task, I’m in the initial stages of ____ information 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 ____ may have.

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

Thank you for considering my ____, Ruth.

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

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

____ were streaming down my face.

I prayed like I had ____ prayed before.

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

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

The doctor ____ came into the room.

____ I could see was his eyes.

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

I started to cry again, but with joy this time that this man I loved ____ 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 ____ always possible to describe the application of science in plain language.

Nevertheless, ____ 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 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 than some researchers can spare, and is the reason for the growing value of the skilled communicator as a messenger and ____ between science and society.

____ is significantly different from pursuit of excellence.

When limits to excellence begin to operate, only creativity and innovation can take ____ 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 ____ 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, nor is it ____”)!

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

By ____ 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 them.

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

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

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

Individuals in the excellence category refuse to accept the limiting biases and ____ 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 the ____ business.

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

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

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

One ____ 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 isn’t ____ 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 ____ should taste like.

Ham is a ____ meat, and we’ve learned 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 ____ play with this yourself.

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

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

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

Overoptimism may be ____ explained by “representativeness bias.”

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

It is easy to see ____ 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 when assessing probabilities.

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

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 accidents ____ 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 ____ 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 College, the forerunner of Birmingham University, where he studied ____.

From 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 ____ years.

During this time he continued with scientific research in a ____ laboratory, 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 ____ to work with him.

He remained at Birmingham until 1910, when he moved to Cambridge as research ____ 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 to clear up several outstanding problems and became one of the basic tools of the new atomic ____.