2025년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (18-30번)

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

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

While ____ for 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 permission to use the school playground on Saturday, December 6th, ____ 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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

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

Thank you for your time and ____.

I will be eagerly awaiting your ____.

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

She ____ who they were.

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

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

The men ____ clearing and marking the ground.

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

“____, what’s happening?” she asked.

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

Amina’s eyes sparkled with ____.

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

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

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

“____” is a term drawn from military usage.

____ are plans of action directing a 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 ____ that have regimented time down to the nanosecond, and by its own finite nature and the fact that we’re going to live only so long.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can see a goldfish waving its ____ at us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s conceivable that in a world ____ solar panels 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 ____ steep drops in the cost of space launch, the numbers don’t add up.

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

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

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

Solar panels in Australia ____ be cleaned by a teenager with a spray bottle and a 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 ____ dramatically than marginal differences ever do.

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

I call this resulting ____ “the borderline effect.”

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

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

Yet once the person with the lower score is ____ “cognitively impaired,” his or her life will unfold differently than 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 ____ of which differences to mark depends firstly on what we can observe and secondly on what is important in our lives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In fact, they argue, empathy makes ____ conflicts worse.

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

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

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

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

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

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