공통영어1 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제

Welcome ____ a new season of High School Magazine.

To start off the new school year on the right foot, we asked some of ____ recent graduates to give us tips on how to succeed in the coming year and beyond.

In high school, everyone told me how talented an artist I was, so I dreamed ____ becoming an illustrator.

In university, though, everyone seemed much more talented than me, and they all worked so hard that ____ felt small in comparison.

I thought about giving ____ my dream of becoming an artist.

Then one day, I happened to see a drawing ____ had won an award for from middle school on the kitchen wall.

I was embarrassed because it wasn’t very ____

People say you shouldn’t compare apples to oranges, and ____ right.

That’s ____ it doesn’t make sense to compare yourself to Internet personalities or even people in your real life.

Maybe they had an advantage, or even a disadvantage, ____ you didn’t.

If you are going to compare yourself to anyone, the only fair comparison ____ “yesterday-you.”

Only you know where you started and how much effort ____ put in.

I couldn’t see ____ progress in my ability when I only compared myself to others.

Everyone develops differently. I’m able to see now the drawing ____ the kitchen was full of mistakes that I no longer make.

It is empowering to see how I have improved rather than to envy the ____ of others.

Your competition isn’t the person next door ____ the influencer on social media: it’s you.

Do you share your opinion in ____ discussions, or do you just stay silent and keep it to yourself?

Like many of you, I often found myself ____ the second group.

A little black hole inside of me swallowed my voice when I ____ speaking up.

____ consequences of being ridiculed or being wrong were always on my mind.

Then, after a particularly heated conversation in class, I ____ myself, “What am I afraid of?”

I was scared that bad things ____ happen, but I never thought about good things.

____ I noticed others taking risks, I knew that I needed to do the same in order to participate.

Many people are scared to speak up, but a lot of them do it anyway because they think it’s worth ____

So I left my comfort ____ and started to speak up.

I grew intellectually and ____ by expressing myself more clearly.

I got closer to friends who liked how open ____ was with them.

Now ____ have more people with whom I can talk, share my ideas, and learn new things.

Remember, taking ____ risk of expressing yourself can be extremely rewarding in unexpected ways.

As I worked through my ____ year into my third in college, I had more troubles balancing school and personal life.

I ____ get excited, anxious, worried, and bored all at once and then separately.

I would get exhausted when I had to write a report for my ____ mediate a disaster between friends, and respond to the comments on my online journal.

I was drowning in a sea of ____ concerns, and anxieties, and that was when I read an article with a simple insight.

The ____ advised me to draw two big circles, with myself in the center.

The smaller circle is my circle of influence, and I have direct control over the things inside it: ____ I eat and drink, how I behave, or what I do after school.

The ____ circle is called my circle of concern: things I worry about but have no direct control over.

For example, I have no direct control over how my professor ____ react to my report, but I do have control over the amount of research I do for it.

Believing that everything was ____ my circle of influence left me stressed out and constantly exhausted.

By wasting less energy on my circle of concern, I was able to ____ more energy into things that mattered.

I no longer worry about what my friends think, and I focus on my own ____

I don’t get anxious over what might be on the test, and instead I put in every effort ____ understand the concepts themselves.

Now, I only put my mental and physical energy into my circle of influence: eating healthy, staying in shape, ____ working hard.