2025년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

My name is Kara Peterson, and I am the Community Event Coordinator at ____ Greenfield Community Center.

We are organizing a drone show for the local ____ and are excited about this special event.

While searching ____ the ideal location, we found that your school is the best place to ensure the safety and accessibility of all attendees.

I kindly request your ____ to use the school playground on Saturday, December 6th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

We will ensure that all safety rules are strictly followed, and that any cleanup will be ____ efficiently.

Please let me know if ____ are any specific procedures for obtaining approval.

Thank ____ for your time and consideration.

I will be ____ awaiting your response.

When Amina returned home from the river with her full clay water jar, she noticed men with ____ near her family’s hut.

She wondered who ____ were.

Her uncle stood among them, pointing ____ a spot beyond the baobab tree.

She put ____ jar down and walked closer, wanting to know what was happening.

The men began clearing and marking the ____

Amina ran to her uncle with a ____ full of questions.

____ what’s happening?” she asked.

“We’re preparing the land. ____ important will be built. A school!” her uncle said with a proud smile.

Amina’s ____ sparkled with joy.

The school ____ to her village was hours away on foot.

“It’s for all the children in ____ village,” her uncle continued.

Amina ____ learning how to read and write, and her heart swelled with excitement.

“Tactics” is ____ term drawn from military usage.

Strategies are plans of action directing ____ military force when attacking another, and tactics are responses to conditions on the ground.

In this vein, time is imposed on us by our cultures, by the technologies that have regimented time down to the nanosecond, and by its own finite nature and the fact that we’re going to live only ____ long.

In ____ we must develop tactics for dealing with time and waiting.

These aren’t tactics ____ eliminate waiting; instead, these are tactics for teaching us how to learn from the seams.

These tactics have the potential to ____ us in profound ways, transforming our perspectives on our wait times.

Such renewed perspectives transform waiting from a burden to a springboard toward things like creativity, social critique, or reflection on ____ inner state and the state of our relationships.

____ neurons are the hardware of empathy, and so what would make more sense than to look and see which animals possess these cells?

And this is exactly where modern research now stands: all researchers ____ so far is that apes possess mirror neurons.

We still need to test to see ____ other species are like us in this respect.

Scientists often publicly speculate ____ we can probably expect surprises here, too.

They assume that all animals ____ live in herds or large groups possess similar brain mechanisms, because social units function only if individuals can see things from the perspective of others in the group and feel what they are feeling.

I ____ see a goldfish waving its fin at us.

As an animal that travels around in a tightly-knit group, it’s on board with this idea―or at least ____ alongside the boat.

The future ____ work depends on two forces: a harmful substituting force and a helpful complementing one.

Many tales have a hero and a villain fighting each other for ____ but in our story, technology plays both roles at once, displacing workers while simultaneously raising the demand for their efforts elsewhere in the economy.

This interaction helps explain why past worries about automation ____ misplaced:

our ancestors had predicted the ____ winner in that fight, underestimating quite how powerful the complementing force would prove to be or simply ignoring that factor altogether.

It also helps to explain why economists ____ traditionally been dismissive of the idea of technological unemployment:

there appeared to be firm limits to the substituting force, leaving lots of tasks ____ could not be performed by machines, and a growing demand for human beings to do them instead.

It’s conceivable that in a world where solar ____ are incredibly expensive and there’s an extreme collapse in the cost of launching objects to space, you might want to maximize your energy per panel by putting them above the atmosphere.

But panels are cheap, and even if we assume pretty steep drops in the cost of space launch, ____ numbers don’t add up.

This becomes especially ____ when you start to think about maintenance.

Try to imagine acres upon acres of glass panels in space, ____ hit by intense radiation and bits of space debris while enduring the extreme heat of constant sunlight.

They’ll have to be repaired ____ cared for either by astronauts or an army of advanced robots.

Solar panels in Australia can be cleaned by a teenager with a spray bottle and ____ cloth.

Everything in the world exists on a continuum, whether in speed, size, or any other ____ descriptor you could think of.

Still, we create and mindlessly adopt sharp distinctions, and those distinctions change lives far more ____ than marginal differences ever do.

Indeed, all differences are arbitrary, but ____ hard lines between categories hides this arbitrariness and can be severely damaging.

I call this resulting ____ “the borderline effect.”

The examples are endless. Someone’s IQ is 69 and someone else’s is 70―but only ____ score of 70 is deemed to be within the range of normal.

We don’t have to be statisticians ____ know there is not a meaningful difference between 69 and 70.

Yet once the person with the lower score is labeled “cognitively impaired,” his or her life will unfold differently ____ the person with a one-point advantage.

All ____ cultures mark the passing of time by the differences they observe in the world around them.

Our choice ____ which differences to mark depends firstly on what we can observe and secondly on what is important in our lives.

____ we mark the differences―the shapes of our calendars and our rituals―depends on the connections we make between those two things.

In the agricultural society of pre-modern Europe, where higher latitudes make the seasons easily observable, it was natural ____ monitor the solar cycle.

Conversely, among the largely nomadic peoples of Arabia, for whom seasonal changes were less significant, the ____ calendar was a more sensible choice.

That did not make it inevitable that Islam would use a lunar calendar and Roman Christianity a solar ____ but political and religious decisions were made from options limited by geography and lifestyle, filtered through tradition.

Although empathy is widely praised by scholars and public figures, not ____ is an empathy booster.

Critics of empathy argue that empathy will not save us from ____ and intergroup conflict.

In fact, they ____ empathy makes such conflicts worse.

These ____ maintain that empathy can be exhausting and lead to burnout or insensitivity to suffering.

They argue that we tend to empathize strongly with our ingroup and resist empathizing with out-groups, and even enjoy the suffering of out-groups in competitive ____ threatening contexts.

Thus, the prescription ____ more empathy is often counterproductive in cases of conflict.

Empathy, they argue, can further encourage conflict and force us into an ____ vs. them mentality.

Finally, even when we try to empathize with others who are dissimilar from us or in unfamiliar contexts, sometimes we are unable ____ accurately empathize with their experiences, causing further misunderstandings and frustration.

Critics of empathy argue that we should give up on empathy and employ other tools in pursuit of social harmony, e.g., rational compassion or moral ____ like fear, anger, and shame.