2025년 9월 고2 모의고사 변형 (31-42번)

Paradoxically, it’s ____ that makes us feel most alive.

Think of events that shake you out of your ____ routine: maybe attending a family wedding, making a big presentation, or going somewhere you’ve never been.

It’s on those occasions that time seems to slow ____ a little, and you feel more fully engaged.

The same holds true if the experience is ____, like mountain climbing or parasailing.

Your ____ are sharper. You notice more.

Thanks to the release of a feel-good chemical in the brain called dopamine, ____ get a greater rush of pleasure from chance encounters with people than planned meetings.

____ news, financial rewards, and gifts are more enjoyable if they are surprises.

It’s why the most popular television shows and ____ are the ones with unexpected plot twists and astonishing endings.

A great strength of the market mechanism is that ____ are incentives for individuals to reveal their knowledge through their behavior.

This stands in contrast to many strategic situations―for ____, in political negotiations― in which it is wise not to let the other side know what one’s true preferences or production capacities are.

A perfectly ____ market that clears on the spot leaves no room for such strategies.

If prices are not sticky―as many ____ assume―individuals adapt their behavior instantaneously, whenever their preferences or the circumstances change.

They stop buying items that do not satisfy their needs and stop ____ items that do not provide them with optimal gains, maybe switching to the production of other items.

If they have motivational problems, for example, falling into denial about the fact that there is no ____ for their products, markets reveal to them, sometimes in quite brutal ways, that they better accept this fact.

Dictionary definitions are ____ revised to keep up with our changing uses and knowledge.

In Roman times, “addicts” were people who were ____ to pay their debts and gave themselves as slaves to their creditors.

The word eventually came to be ____ with drug dependency: one becomes a slave to one’s addiction.

The word “husband” originally ____ to being a homeowner; it had nothing to do with being married.

But because owning your own property made it more likely you’d find a mate, the word eventually ____ to mean a male who has been wed.

On November 5th, 1605, Guy Fawkes tried to ____ up the British Parliament.

He was captured and put to death. ____ burned his effigy, which they nicknamed the “guy.”

Centuries later, the word lost ____ negative connotation and a musical named Guys and Dolls ran on Broadway.

In American slang, bad means good, cool means great, and wicked means ____.

If you could transport yourself one hundred years ____ the future, you’d find yourself confused by your great-grandchildren’s speech because language itself is an ever-changing reflection of human invention.

The term “anchoring” was introduced by ____ Barthes who observed that text is often used next to images (his focus was on photographs) to confine meaning.

Of all possible ____ or implied interpretations an image could elicit, text would point the viewer towards a desired, specific direction.

In advertising, as ____ argues, the symbolic message does not guide identification but interpretation.

The viewer is ____ asked to recognize what they see but to understand why they see it and what it means to them.

By combining images with text, advertising produces symbolic meaning that is accurate and specific on the one hand, richer on the other, ____ adding depth and eliminating breadth of rational and emotional interpretations.

The headline or tagline of an ad directs the reader through the intended meanings of the image, so that the reader ____ some and receives others.

It “remote-controls” the reader towards a meaning ____ in advance.

According to Einstein’s theory, a large mass like the Sun ‘bends’ ____.

Newton’s theory ____ no such prediction.

This ____ of space-time leads to phenomena such as ‘gravitational lensing’ where the light of distant stars appears to be in different locations when they pass by a large mass like the Sun.

We don’t normally see this lensing because stars aren’t visible during the day when the Sun is ____, but a solar eclipse in 1919 allowed scientists to observe what the Sun’s gravity was doing to the light from distant stars.

The stars around the Sun appeared to have moved ____ their normal positions in the night sky.

The shift was much larger ____ Newton’s theory predicted, but exactly in the positions predicted by Einstein’s theory.

We’re naturally wired to organize the world into a ____.

We do this to help make sense of the world, maintain our beliefs, and ____ feel better.

But when someone infringes on our place in the ____ and our understanding of how it works, we react without thinking.

When someone cuts ____ off on the highway and road rage kicks in, that’s your unconscious mind saying, “Who are you to cut me off?”

You’re reacting to a threat to your inherent ____ of hierarchy.

On the road we are all ____. We’re all supposed to play by the same rules.

Cutting someone off violates those rules and implies higher ____.

Or ____ when you get frustrated with your kids and end an argument with “Because I said so.” (Or the office equivalent: “Because I’m the boss.”)

In these moments you’ve ____ thinking and regressed to your biological tendencies of reaffirming the hierarchy.

Once a nail is hammered in, it is ____ that holds it in place.

Friction is the force that arises when two surfaces are sliding, or trying to slide, against each ____.

If ____ try to pull apart two blocks of wood that have been nailed together, the wood fibers grip the shaft of the nail.

The ____ feels a force trying to rip it apart along its length, and we call that force tension.

Your experiment can now fail in one of two ways-either the nail ____ and splits in half because the tension force is too large for the nail, or the nail comes loose because the friction force is overcome.

The force it would take to stretch the nail is much larger than the friction forces on the surface, so we don’t have to worry ____ much about the former.

It’s the friction with which we need to concern ____.

The traditional bank manager in the 1950s was usually a respected pillar of the community, a cautious, careful sort of person who probably went to bed early and didn’t drink ____ much.

But from the 1970s a new kind of banker ____, flashy, and arrogant.

These bankers ____ taking big risks.

They wanted to get rich ____ and blow their money on fast cars and expensive champagne.

They made their ____ through what’s called ‘speculation’.

Normally, people buy things because they want to use them, ____ as wheat to make bread and petrol to run the car.

But when ____ speculate, they buy things even when they have no interest in using them.

They might buy a load of wheat ____ because they think that its price is going to rise when a drought is predicted in wheat-growing areas.

If their guess is ____, they later sell the wheat for a profit.

Paper’s mechanical ____ lend themselves to folding and bending.

The cellulose fibers of ____ it is made can be partially snapped in the area of maximum bend, allowing a permanent crease to form, while sufficient fibers remain undamaged for the material not to crack and fall apart.

Indeed, in this state it pretty much ____ its ability to resist being pulled apart, but it can also be torn easily and accurately along the crease if a point of weakness―a small, initial tear―is opened up.

This winning combination of mechanical properties allows it to assume the shape of any object through creasing and ____ the art of origami.

There are very few materials as good: metal foils can hold a crease, but control of the crease is ____ more difficult.

Plastic sheeting doesn’t tend to hold a crease at all, unless it is very soft, in which case it lacks the rigidity required of a ____ wrapping material.

So it is its ____ to hold a crease while remaining stiff that makes paper uniquely suited to this purpose.

Mother cats can tell which kittens belong to ____ litters are mixed up they use their kittens’ scent to distinguish them from offspring of other mothers.

Despite this, when faced with a selection of kittens who have wandered from the nest, her own and others that aren’t hers, a ____ cat doesn’t appear to favor her own offspring when retrieving them.

The reason for this is uncertain, although distress vocalizations from kittens that are lost from their nest are known to be very powerful, so it may just be hard for the ____ to resist retrieving them, regardless of whether they are hers.

In the wild, a squeaking kitten out in the open is likely to attract predators, which is ____ news for any other kittens around it.

A rapid rescue of any crying kitten would be a good strategy to prevent ____ from drawing unwanted attention.

Many animals pursue a mixed strategy of accumulating both body fat and food, which leads ____ to ask, “What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two forms of energy storage?”

Maximum fat deposition increases with body ____ whereas maximum food storage is not constrained by body size.

This means that animals, especially small animals, can accumulate much ____ energy reserves in the form of stored food than they can in the form of body fat.

Further, stored food is more economical than body fat because fat contributes to body mass, and metabolic rate increases with body ____.

In other words, there is a ____ expense to maintaining fat.

Excessive ____ accumulations may also have a negative effect on an animal’s ability to avoid predators.

And, if maintaining a high body temperature is advantageous, animals might be expected to accumulate more energy in the form of a ____ store than as body fat.

On the other hand, stored food may rot over time, may be ____ by robbers, or may simply be lost.

Many animals must expend energy managing and protecting their food ____.

Eating food and converting it to fat avoids these types of ____ and the energetic costs of managing stored food.

A large accumulation of body fat adds to an animal’s fasting capacity, especially large animals, permitting ____ animals to enter prolonged dormancy in the relative security of a hibernaculum.

Thus, ____ fat accumulation and food storage have some decided advantages.