2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

Dear Ruth ____ I hope this message finds you well.

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

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

As I embark ____ this task, I’m in the initial stages of gathering information about the existing systems and understanding the requirements from the users’ perspective.

Given your role and expertise, ____ 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 detail, including current workflows, user expectations, and ____ other insights you may have.

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

Thank you for considering ____ request, Ruth.

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

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

Tears were streaming down my ____

I prayed ____ I had never prayed before.

____ just wanted 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 ____ sat 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 ____ cancer cells.

I started to cry again, but with joy this time that this man ____ 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 application of the science, not on the ____ itself.

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

Nevertheless, scientists sometimes complain that the translation of science into plain language ____ 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 ____ — then it makes no sense to use it, as the result will only be confusion.

Scientists should never expect people outside their discipline to understand the exact ____ 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 interpreter ____ science and society.

Creativity is significantly different from pursuit of ____

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

In a competitive and uncertain world, companies that ____ 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 working of ____ employee mind to follow the prescribed practices is relevant.

The employee mind is considered similar to a ____ 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 canvas into ____ 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 ____ 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% ____ more) how we interpret and respond to what is happening.

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

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

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

They make their own interpretations, and decide ____

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

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

The other scout responds enthusiastically that this is an outstanding business opportunity since ____ one has shoes.

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

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

Once in a while you might imagine a ____ that isn’t actually 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 ____ the food should taste like.

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

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

You can ____ with this yourself.

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

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

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

Overoptimism may be partially explained by “representativeness ____

Representativeness bias is the result of a heuristic whereby individuals generalize from particular “representative” cases, even when better ____ 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 ____ the representativeness 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, ____ 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 this time he continued with scientific research in ____ home 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 Aston to work ____ him.

He remained at Birmingham until 1910, when ____ 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 received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1922, was on the design and use of the mass spectrograph, which was used to ____ up several outstanding problems and became one of the basic tools of the new atomic physics.