2024년 3월 고2 모의고사 영어 빈칸 테스트 (18~42번)

Dear Art ____ People of Greenville,

For the annual Crafts Fair on May 25 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Greenville ____ Center is providing booth spaces to rent as in previous years.

To reserve your space, please visit our website and complete a registration form by ____ 20.

The ____ fee is $50.

All the ____ we receive from rental fees goes to support upcoming activities throughout the year.

We ____ all available spaces to be fully booked soon, so don’t get left out.

We hope to ____ you at the fair.

Sarah, a young artist with a love for painting, entered a local art ____.

As she looked at the ____ artworks made by others, her confidence dropped.

She quietly thought, ‘I might not ____ an award.’

The moment of ____ arrived, and the judges began announcing winners one by one.

It ____ until the end that she heard her name.

The ____ of the judges said, “Congratulations, Sarah Parker!

You ____ first prize. We loved the uniqueness of your work.”

Sarah was overcome with joy, and she ____ stop smiling.

This experience meant more than ____ winning; it confirmed her identity as an artist.

Too many times people, especially in today’s generation, expect things to just happen ____.

When we have these false expectations, it tends to discourage us from continuing to ____ forward.

Because this is a ____ tech society, everything we want has to be within the parameters of our comfort and convenience.

If it doesn’t happen ____ enough, we’re tempted to lose interest.

So many people don’t ____ to take the time it requires to be successful.

Success is ____ a matter of mere desire; you should develop patience in order to achieve it.

____ you fallen prey to impatience?

Great things take ____ to build.

If you ____ wanted to create a “self­driving” car in the 1950s, your best option might have been to strap a brick to the accelerator.

Yes, the vehicle would have been able to move forward on its own, but it could not ____ down, stop, or turn to avoid barriers.

Obviously not ideal. But does that mean the entire concept of the self­driving car is not ____ pursuing?

No, it only means that at the time we did not yet have the tools we now possess to help enable vehicles to operate both autonomously and ____.

This once-­distant dream now seems ____ our reach.

It is ____ the same story in medicine.

Two decades ____, we were still taping bricks to accelerators.

Today, we are approaching the point where we can begin to bring some appropriate ____ to bear in ways that advance our understanding of patients as unique individuals.

In fact, many patients are already wearing devices that monitor their conditions in real time, which allows doctors to talk to their patients in a specific, refined, and feedback­driven way that was not even possible a decade ____.

We tend to overrate the impact of new technologies in part because older technologies have become ____ into the furniture of our lives, so as to be almost invisible.

Take the ____ bottle.

Here is a simple implement that has transformed a fundamental human experience for vast numbers of infants and mothers, yet it finds no place in our histories of ____.

This technology might be thought of as a classic time­shifting device, as it enables ____ to exercise more control over the timing of feeding.

It ____ also function to save time, as bottle feeding allows for someone else to substitute for the mother’s time.

Potentially, therefore, it has ____ implications for the management of time in everyday life, yet it is entirely overlooked in discussions of high­speed society.

Empathy is frequently ____ as one of the most desired skills in an employer or employee, although without specifying exactly what is meant by empathy.

Some businesses stress cognitive empathy, emphasizing the need for ____ to understand the perspective of employees and customers when negotiating deals and making decisions.

Others stress affective empathy and empathic concern, emphasizing the ____ of leaders to gain trust from employees and customers by treating them with real concern and compassion.

When some consultants argue that successful companies foster empathy, what that translates to is that companies should ____ good market research.

In other words, an “empathic” company understands the needs and ____ of its customers and seeks to fulfill those needs and wants.

When some people speak of design with empathy, what that translates to is that companies should take into account the specific ____ of different populations — the blind, the deaf, the elderly, non-­English speakers, the color­blind, and so on — when designing products.

The most prevalent problem kids ____ is that they feel like they need to be accessible at all times.

Because ____ allows for it, they feel an obligation.

It’s easy for most of us to ____ — you probably feel the same pressure in your own life!

It is really challenging to deal with the ____ that we’re human and can’t always respond instantly.

For a teen or tween who’s still learning the ins and ____ of social interactions, it’s even worse.

Here’s how this behavior plays out sometimes: Your child ____ one of his friends, and the friend doesn’t text back right away.

Now it’s easy for your child to think, “This person ____ want to be my friend anymore!”

So he texts again, and again, and again —“____ up their phone.”

This can be stress­inducing and ____ read as aggressive.

But you can see how ____ this could happen.

For years, many psychologists have held strongly to the belief that the key to addressing negative ____ habits is to change behavior.

This, more than values and attitudes, is the ____ of personality that is easiest to change.

Ingestive habits such as smoking, drinking and various eating behaviors are the most common health concerns targeted for behavioral ____.

Process­addiction behaviors (workaholism, shopaholism, and the like) fall into this category as ____.

Mental imagery combined with power of suggestion was ____ up as the premise of behavioral medicine to help people change negative health behaviors into positive ones.

Although this technique alone will not produce changes, when used alongside other behavior modification tactics and coping ____, behavioral changes have proved effective for some people.

What mental imagery ____ is reinforce a new desired behavior.

Repeated use of images reinforces the desired behavior more strongly over ____.

Emotion socialization — learning from other people about emotions and how to ____ with them — starts early in life and plays a foundational role for emotion regulation development.

Although extra­familial influences, such as peers or media, gain in importance ____ adolescence, parents remain the primary socialization agents.

For example, their own responses to emotional situations serve as a role model for emotion regulation, increasing the likelihood that their children will show similar ____ in comparable situations.

Parental practices at times when their children are faced with emotional ____ also impact emotion regulation development.

Whereas direct soothing and directive guidance of what to do are beneficial for younger children, they may intrude on adolescents’ autonomy ____.

In consequence, ____ might pull away from, rather than turn toward, their parents in times of emotional crisis, unless parental practices are adjusted.

More suitable in adolescence is indirect support of autonomous emotion regulation, such as through interest in, as well as ____ and nonjudgmental acceptance of, adolescents’ emotional experiences, and being available when the adolescent wants to talk.

Dancers often push themselves to the limits of their ____ capabilities.

But that push is misguided if it is directed toward accomplishing something physically ____.

For instance, a tall dancer with ____ feet may wish to perform repetitive vertical jumps to fast music, pointing his feet while in the air and lowering his heels to the floor between jumps.

That may be impossible no matter how strong the ____ is.

But a short­footed ____ may have no trouble!

Another dancer ____ be struggling to complete a half­turn in the air.

Understanding the connection between a rapid turn rate and the alignment of the body close to the rotation axis tells her how to accomplish her turn ____.

In both of ____ cases, understanding and working within the constraints imposed by nature and described by physical laws allows dancers to work efficiently, minimizing potential risk of injury.

We must explore the ____ between children’s film production and consumption habits.

The term “children’s film” implies ownership by children — their cinema — but films supposedly ____ for children have always been consumed by audiences of all ages, particularly in commercial cinemas.

The considerable crossover in audience composition for children’s films can be shown by the fact that, in 2007, eleven Danish children’s and youth films attracted 59 per cent of theatrical admissions, and in 2014, German children’s films comprised seven out of the top twenty films at the national box ____.

This phenomenon corresponds with a broader, international embrace of what is seemingly children’s ____ among audiences of diverse ages.

The old prejudice that children’s film is some other realm, separate from (and forever subordinate to) a more legitimate cinema for adults is not supported by the realities of ____: children’s film is at the heart of contemporary popular culture.

Beethoven’s drive to create something novel is a reflection of his state of ____.

Our brains experience a sense of reward when we create something new in the process of exploring something uncertain, such as a musical phrase that ____ never played or heard before.

When our curiosity leads to something ____, the resulting reward brings us a sense of pleasure.

A number of investigators have modeled how curiosity ____ musical composition.

In the case of Beethoven, computer modeling ____ on the thirty­two piano sonatas written after age thirteen revealed that the musical patterns found in all of Beethoven’s music decreased in later sonatas, while novel patterns, including patterns that were unique to a particular sonata, increased.

In other words, Beethoven’s music became ____ predictable over time as his curiosity drove the exploration of new musical ideas.

Curiosity is a powerful ____ of human creativity.

Technologists are ____ on the lookout for quantifiable metrics.

Measurable inputs to a model are their lifeblood, and like a social scientist, a technologist needs to identify concrete measures, or “proxies,” for assessing ____.

This need for quantifiable proxies produces a bias toward ____ things that are easy to quantify.

But ____ metrics can take us further away from the important goals we really care about, which may require complicated metrics or be extremely difficult, or perhaps impossible, to reduce to any measure.

And when we have imperfect or bad proxies, we can easily fall under the illusion that we are ____ for a good end without actually making genuine progress toward a worthy solution.

The problem of proxies results in technologists frequently substituting ____ is measurable for what is meaningful.

As the saying goes, “Not everything that counts can be ____, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

We are the only ____ that seasons its food, deliberately altering it with the highly flavored plant parts we call herbs and spices.

It’s quite ____ that our taste for spices has an evolutionary root.

Many spices have antibacterial properties — in fact, common seasonings such as garlic, onion, and oregano ____ the growth of almost every bacterium tested.

And the cultures that make the heaviest use of ____ — think of the garlic and black pepper of Thai food, the ginger and coriander of India, the chili peppers of Mexico — come from warmer climates, where bacterial spoilage is a bigger issue.

In contrast, the most lightly spiced cuisines — ____ of Scandinavia and northern Europe — are from cooler climates.

Our uniquely human attention to flavor, in this case the ____ of spices, turns out to have arisen as a matter of life and death.

____ of the human body from a single cell provides many examples of the structural richness that is possible when the repeated production of random variation is combined with nonrandom selection.

All phases of body ____ from embryo to adult exhibit random activities at the cellular level, and body formation depends on the new possibilities generated by these activities coupled with selection of those outcomes that satisfy previously built­in criteria.

Always new structure is based on old structure, and at every stage selection favors some cells and eliminates ____.

The survivors serve to produce new ____ that undergo further rounds of selection.

Except in the immune system, cells and extensions of cells are not genetically selected during development, but rather, are ____ selected.

Those in the right place that make the right ____ are stimulated, and those that don’t are eliminated.

This ____ is much like sculpting.

A natural consequence of the strategy is great variability from ____ to individual at the cell and molecular levels, even though large­scale structures are quite similar.

In order to bring the ever­increasing costs of home care for elderly and needy ____ under control, managers of home care providers have introduced management systems.

These systems specify tasks of home care ____ and the time and budget available to perform these tasks.

Electronic reporting systems require home care workers to report on their activities and the time spent, ____ making the distribution of time and money visible and, in the perception of managers, controllable.

This, in the ____ of managers, has contributed to the resolution of the problem.

The home care workers, on the other hand, may perceive their work not as a set of separate tasks to be ____ as efficiently as possible, but as a service to be provided to a client with whom they may have developed a relationship.

This includes having conversations with clients and ____ about the person’s well­being.

Restricted time and the requirement to report may be perceived as obstacles that ____ it impossible to deliver the service that is needed.

If the management systems are ____ rigid, this may result in home care workers becoming overloaded and demotivated.

It is a common assumption that most vagrant birds are ultimately doomed, aside from the rare cases ____ individuals are able to reorientate and return to their normal ranges.

In turn, it is also ____ assumed that vagrancy itself is a relatively unimportant biological phenomenon.

This is undoubtedly true for the majority of cases, as the most likely outcome of any given vagrancy event is that the ____ will fail to find enough resources, and/or be exposed to inhospitable environmental conditions, and perish.

However, there are many lines of evidence to suggest that vagrancy can, on rare occasions, dramatically alter the fate of ____, species or even whole ecosystems.

Despite being infrequent, these events can be extremely important when viewed at the timescales over ____ ecological and evolutionary processes unfold.

The most profound consequences of vagrancy relate to the establishment of new breeding sites, new migration ____ and wintering locations.

Each of these can occur through ____ mechanisms, and at different frequencies, and they each have their own unique importance.

Intuition can be ____, but it ought to be hard­-earned.

Experts, for example, are able to think on their ____ because they’ve invested thousands of hours in learning and practice: their intuition has become data-­driven.

Only then are they able to act quickly in accordance with their internalized ____ and evidence-­based experience.

Yet most people are ____ experts, though they often think they are.

Most of us, especially when we interact with others on social media, act with expert­-like speed and conviction, offering a wide range of opinions on global crises, without the ____ of knowledge that supports it.

And thanks to AI, which ensures that our messages are delivered to an audience more inclined to ____ it, our delusions of expertise can be reinforced by our personal filter bubble.

We have an interesting tendency to find people more open­-minded, rational, and sensible when they ____ just like us.

The ____ tremendous amount of data, collected and stored in large and numerous data repositories, has far exceeded our human ability for understanding without powerful tools.

As a result, data collected in large data repositories become “data tombs” — ____ archives that are hardly visited.

Important decisions are often made based not on the information–rich data stored in data repositories but rather on a decision maker’s instinct, simply because the decision ____ does not have the tools to extract the valuable knowledge hidden in the vast amounts of data.

Efforts have been made to develop expert system and knowledge­based technologies, ____ typically rely on users or domain experts to manually input knowledge into knowledge bases.

However, this ____ is likely to cause biases and errors and is extremely costly and time consuming.

The widening gap between data and information calls for the systematic development of tools that can ____ data tombs into “golden nuggets” of knowledge.

It’s untrue that teens can focus on two things at once — ____ they’re doing is shifting their attention from one task to another.

In this digital age, teens ____ their brains to make these shifts very quickly, but they are still, like everyone else, paying attention to one thing at a time, sequentially.

Common sense tells us multitasking should increase brain activity, but Carnegie Mellon University scientists using the latest brain ____ technology find it doesn’t.

As a matter of fact, they discovered that multitasking actually decreases ____ activity.

____ task is done as well as if each were performed individually.

Fractions of a second are lost every time we make a switch, and a person’s interrupted task can take 50 percent longer to ____, with 50 percent more errors.

Turns out the latest ____ research supports the old advice “one thing at a time.”

It’s not that kids ____ do some tasks simultaneously.

But if two tasks are performed at ____, one of them has to be familiar.

Our brains perform a familiar ____ on “automatic pilot” while really paying attention to the other one.

That’s why insurance companies consider talking on a cell phone and driving to be as dangerous as driving while drunk — it’s the driving that goes on “____ pilot” while the conversation really holds our attention.

Our kids may be living in the Information Age but our brains ____ not been redesigned yet.