2026 수특 영독연 14강 변형문제 (1-9번)

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

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

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

As I ____ on 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, I believe your insights would be invaluable to ____ 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 meeting later this ____ at your convenience?

Thank you for considering my ____ Ruth.

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

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

Tears were ____ down my face.

____ prayed like I had never prayed before.

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

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

The doctor finally came into the ____

All ____ could see was his eyes.

____ said 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 all the ____ 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 ____ the application of the science, not on the science 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 ‘devalues’ it ____ ‘dumbs it down’.

However, if the use of scientific terminology will only cause the audience to misunderstand — or, worse, ____ 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 their discipline to understand the exact meaning they ascribe to a specialised term — even an apparently simple one like ____

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

This sometimes takes more time and effort than some researchers can spare, and is the reason for the growing value of ____ skilled communicator as a messenger and interpreter between science and society.

Creativity is significantly different from pursuit of ____

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

In a ____ and uncertain world, companies that are 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 an employee mind to ____ the prescribed practices is relevant.

The employee mind is considered similar to a black ____ (“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 unexplored white spaces (“one has to have deep pockets to ____ 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% (or less) what happens to us and 95% (or more) how we interpret and respond to ____ is happening.

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

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

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

____ make their own interpretations, and decide accordingly.

There is an often-noted ____ about a shoe factory that sends 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 one wears shoes, and there ____ no market.

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

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

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

Once in a while you ____ 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 brain to reconstruct what ____ perceives the food should taste like.

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

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

____ can play with this yourself.

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

The next time you make a ____ 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 ____ general statistical information exists.

It is easy to see why the representativeness heuristic might be useful in everyday reasoning — specific information is often ____ 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 ____ can lead to bizarre and erroneous judgments.

Overoptimism ____ 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 more highly than it does in fact.

____ 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 generated an underestimation of the probability that average drivers are involved in accidents.

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

He was ____ at Mason College, 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 a home laboratory, where he worked on the production of vacua ____ x-ray discharge tubes.

This work came to the notice of J. H. Poynting of the University of Birmingham, who invited Aston ____ 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 ____ the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.

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