2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

Dear Ruth Allen, I hope ____ message finds 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 from ____ users’ perspective.

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

I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to discuss the project ____ 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 ____ request, Ruth.

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

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

____ were streaming down my face.

____ prayed like I had never prayed before.

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

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

The doctor finally ____ into the room.

____ I could see was his eyes.

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

I started to cry again, but with joy this time that this man I loved would be by my side again, healthy and smiling and looking forward to ____ the beautiful things that life had in store for us.

Avoiding scientific jargon is not as hard as it ____ as articles written for the public, for government and even industry usually focus on the application of the science, not on the science itself.

It is nearly always possible to describe the application of science in ____ 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, ____ completely misinterpret what is being said — then it makes no sense to use it, as the result will only be confusion.

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

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

This sometimes takes more time and effort than some researchers can spare, and is ____ 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, companies that are creative would most ____ have advantage over companies that are not.

Nevertheless, creativity figures low in corporate agenda as a work ____ organizational 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 ____ is considered 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 canvas ____ 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 ____ white-space growth that lies ahead of them.

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

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

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

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

They make their own ____ and decide accordingly.

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

The first ____ 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 ____ an outstanding business opportunity since no one has shoes.

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

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

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

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

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

You can ____ with this yourself.

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

The next ____ 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 find ____ the dessert tastes very sweet.

Overoptimism may be partially explained by ____ bias.”

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

It is easy to ____ 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 when 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 case, even if they believe they are average drivers, they will systematically underestimate the probability that they will be involved in an accident, ____ the representativeness heuristic will have generated an underestimation of the probability that average drivers are involved in accidents.

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

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

____ 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 three years.

During this time he continued with scientific research in a home laboratory, where he worked on the production of vacua ____ x-ray discharge tubes.

This ____ came to the notice of J. H. Poynting of the University of Birmingham, who invited Aston to work with him.

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

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