기출 Practice 집중의 장단점
When we narrow, we're redirecting all ____ our computing power to the handful of processes that matter.
It's as if to help with ____ slow Wi-Fi, we disconnect our phone and tablet, just so that our video conference call won't lag.
Narrowing ____ helps with goal attainment.
It cuts out all of the other distractions ____ places the most important goal front and center.
When we home in, we increase ____ intensity, reinforcing that what's in front of us is what we should be after.
For ____ brief moment, the trade-off can be worthwhile, but when we remain zoomed in for too long, we start to miss cues and signals.
We get locked in on one path without being able to step back and see a better ____
When we're stuck narrowed in ____ too long, accidents go up and performance drops.
We miss hearing alarms that ____ there's a problem elsewhere.
1 우울할 때 위안이 되는 슬픈 음악
Interestingly, if ____ sad, then listening to sad music can sometimes improve your mood.
You ____ suppose that the last thing that would help, if you're having a bad day, is to play something that reflects that negativity.
Why wouldn't a sad person listen to happy ____
The reason is that when you're feeling down or depressed, it's often because ____ feel misunderstood — that the people around you don't appreciate what you're going through.
If you were ____ listen to happy music while in this state, it would only amplify that feeling of detachment.
On the other hand, if you put on the right piece of sad music, you can say to yourself, 'That's exactly how I feel. This ____ understands me.'
So the sad music turns out to be soothing — a companion to ____ misery, as it were.
2 글쓰기를 통한 진실 전달의 한계
There is a long-running and, so ____ inconclusive debate about what constitutes truth and how to represent that truth in writing.
A common misconception is that standard non-fiction writing ____ facts which equate to reality.
Of course, there is some truth in this, but it ____ not the whole truth.
In fact, it is impossible to use words ____ describe the whole truth of anything.
I can write 'a cup is on my desk', and that is true — there is a ____ on my desk.
Even though you can't ____ it, you probably believe me, because a cup on a desk is quite an ordinary sight.
But to tell the 'whole truth' of that cup would involve describing it in infinite detail: its colours and shapes, its history, how it was made, by whom, ____ what, where those materials came from, the number of times it has been used, when, for what, and so on.
Writing can only ____ partial truth, and writers make choices all the time about what to include and what to leave out.
3 과학적 다수 의견의 형성 과정
The shaping of scientific majority opinions concerning complex societal issues takes place in the form of processes of opinion ____
This is made reassuringly clear by references to, for instance, 'the accumulation of collective ____ 'accepted interpretation', 'sufficient consensus' and to aims of 'winning over peer scientists.'
Only, at some stage during the processes of opinion formation — probably when a majority opinion appears to have evolved — they somehow ____ to be connected to opinions.
Instead, the outcome of the processes, the majority opinion, is promoted to the ____ of the scientific consensus; opinion is transformed into scientific knowledge.
As such, it is by convention protected from sceptical and critical enquiry by non-specialists and ____ specialists adhering to minority opinions alike.
From this point on, the exercise of critique of the majority ____ comes to be perceived as an expression of hostility to science and may be labelled as the 'manufacture' of doubt and uncertainty.
4 과학적 발견과 실험
Science is frequently described as the principles informing an activity: a method that starts with a question phrased as a statement, or ____ 'hypothesis', which progresses to being tested against observations in a contrived, experimental environment, and eventually ends in a definitive conclusion.
But history commonly ____ people as scientists who have not strictly followed such a method (and even praises them for their contributions to scientific knowledge).
Physics is ____ of amazing discoveries that have resulted not so much from experimentation but from mathematical deductions, or even numerous hours of patiently watching the sky or perhaps looking through photographs.
The discovery of phenomena such as black holes or subatomic particles is often seeded in extrapolations that we typically think of as scientific, long before they are found or identified by an experiment ____ controlled conditions.
While evolution can be demonstrated in the laboratory today, ____ had no such luxury and relied on comparisons he could make between diverse environments.
5 신호 보내기의 효과
Restaurateurs are aware of ____ effects of signaling.
They know that the more customers you seat, the more will ____ in the door.
This is why ____ will seat the first customers of the evening close to the window and why they don't mind a line of people waiting to be seated.
They understand that the more people there are signaling their interest in the restaurant, ____ greater the reinforcing feedback loop communicating how wonderful their restaurant is.
Farnsworth explains, "People ____ inferences from what they see others doing and do the same; now even more people are doing it, and they create a still stronger impression on the rest."
People ____ were on the fence about the restaurant will be drawn in by the apparent interest.
As they join the line, the interest of the next threshold level ____ next number of customers) gets piqued.