공통영어1 비상 홍민표 1과 변형문제

____ to a new season of High School Magazine.

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

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

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

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

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

I was embarrassed ____ it wasn’t very good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ develops differently. I’m able to see now the drawing in 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 success of ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I ____ intellectually and socially by expressing myself more clearly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The article ____ 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: what I eat and drink, how I behave, or ____ I do after school.

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

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 in my circle of influence left me stressed out and constantly ____.

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

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

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

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