2025년 9월 고1 모의고사 변형문제 (18-30번)

I hope this message finds ____ well.

As student council president, I am reaching out to discuss an important ____ regarding our school library’s current operating hours.

At present, the library closes at 5 p.m., which many students feel limits their ability to fully use its resources for study and research after ____ class hours.

This is particularly challenging for those preparing for college entrance exams or working on academic projects that demand a quiet and ____ environment.

Therefore, I’d like to ask you to ____ the library’s operating hours to 7 p.m.

This change would greatly benefit students by providing additional time to focus on their ____ goals.

I ____ you will consider this proposal as a step toward improving our academic environment and better supporting our needs.

I glanced at the clock on the wall. ____

That meant the casting director ____ call very soon with the results of my first audition for a musical part in The Wizard of Oz.

I felt shaky all over, chewing my thumbnail and ____ my feet.

Finally, the telephone ____. While I was coming round, Dad answered.

I ____ him say, “Ahh, thank you. I’ll let her know...”

As I got to the ____ of the stairs, he was just putting the phone down.

“That was The Wizard of Oz. You’re second senior ____,” he announced.

I got a little rush of excitement, knowing I was in—that whatever ____ I could be involved in one of the productions.

Inefficient teachers overlook the potential ____ of the opening minutes of class.

Often, if students are quiet enough and if there are many pressing demands on a ____ time at that moment, more than ten minutes can disappear before class starts.

It’s no wonder that students are late for class; they have little reason to be on ____.

You can use the first ten minutes to get your class off to a great start, or you can choose to waste this ____.

The first minutes set the tone for the ____ of the class. If you are prepared for class and have taught your students an opening routine, they can use this brief time to make mental and emotional transitions from the last class or subject and prepare to focus on learning new material.

In summary, you should establish an opening routine to ____ your class with an effective start.

Many atoms in your body are nearly as old as the ____ itself.

When ____ breathe, for example, only some of the atoms that you inhale are exhaled in your next breath.

The remaining ____ are taken into your body to become part of you, and they later leave your body by various means.

You don’t “own” the atoms that make up your body; ____ borrow them.

We all share from the same atom pool because atoms ____ travel around, within, and among us.

Atoms cycle from person to person as we breathe and as our ____ is evaporated.

We recycle atoms on a grand ____.

The origin of the lightest atoms goes ____ to the origin of the universe, and most heavier atoms are older than the Sun and Earth.

There are atoms in your body that have existed since the first moments of time, recycling throughout the universe among ____ forms, both nonliving and living.

You’re the ____ caretaker of the atoms in your body.

There will be many who will follow ____.

The act of gardening ____ is a fantastic form of physical activity.

It involves a range of motions, from digging and planting to ____ and harvesting.

These activities help improve strength, flexibility, and ____.

You might not realize it, but small tasks like weeding or turning compost ____ burn many calories.

Gardening is ____ beneficial for those who find traditional exercise challenging.

It’s a low-impact way to stay active and fit, making it accessible for people of all ages and physical ____.

Besides physical health, gardening has ____ mental health benefits.

Tending to plants can be ____ calming and meditative.

It allows you to focus on the present moment, reducing ____ and anxiety.

The repetitive tasks involved in gardening can induce a state of mindfulness, similar to ____.

Studies have shown that spending time in nature, ____ in a small garden, can elevate mood, improve cognition, and reduce depression symptoms.

The sense of accomplishment from watching your ____ grow and thrive can also boost self-esteem and overall well-being.

For many centuries, humans ____ taken advantage of tools that translate and bring into our perception natural phenomena that we can’t perceive with our senses.

In some cases, this consists of simply amplifying signals that feed into our normal sensory inputs (e.g., telescopes can bring into ____ view that which is too far away for our eyes to perceive on their own).

Other instruments turn signals that we cannot perceive into ones that we can ____.

Some of these take the form of expanding the reach of our current senses, such as creating visible ____ based on the ultraviolet spectrum of light or changing sounds that are normally outside the range of what human ears can hear into audible signals.

Alternatively, some instruments measure properties for which we have no sensory capacity at all and ____ them into that which we can observe.

Many opponents of animal experimentation argue that not only is ____ medicine not the only cause for the decline in mortality, many medical advances that did contribute to human health were not the result of animal experimentation.

Defenders of research have claimed that since there is a ____ correlation between the practice of animal experimentation and medical advancement, the former caused the latter.

Opponents of research reject this ____.

After ____, we have independent reasons to expect these phenomena to be correlated.

Since the law prescribes that all new drugs, prosthetic devices, and surgical techniques be tried on animals before they are used in humans, we will subsequently find that all medical advances are correlated with ____ experimentation on animals.

____, the correlation between animal experimentation and medical discovery is the result of legal necessity, not evidence that animal experimentation led to medical advances.

Moreover, several influential physicians have offered historical evidence that animal experimentation has not been as ____ for biomedical discovery as defenders suggest.

They claim that clinical discoveries played a more substantial role than animal ____ have led us to believe.

Roger Payne was ____ in Manhattan in 1935.

He studied biology at Harvard University and ____ earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1961.

In 1967, he discovered that humpback whales make ____ and complex sounds.

They’re known as “whale songs,” and he showed that ____ use them to communicate.

Then in 1970, he released an ____ Songs of the Humpback Whale, which became a surprise hit and helped start the global “Save the Whales” movement.

The following year, he founded Ocean Alliance to protect ____ and the earth’s oceans, and he used new, safe methods to study whales without harming them.

Over his ____, he led more than 100 research trips worldwide, including the Voyage of the Odyssey from 2000 to 2005, which studied ocean pollution.

His work helped make laws that protect marine mammals, ____ finally led to the global ban on commercial whaling in 1986.

Big mammalian herbivore species react to ____ from predators or humans in different ways.

Some species are ____, fast, and programmed for instant flight when they perceive a threat.

Other species are slower, ____ nervous, seek protection in herds, stand their ground when threatened, and don’t run until necessary.

Naturally, the nervous ____ are difficult to keep in captivity.

If ____ into an enclosure, they are likely to panic, and either die of shock or hit themselves repeatedly to death against the fence in their attempts to escape.

That’s true, for example, of gazelles, which for thousands of years were the most frequently hunted game species in some parts of the Fertile ____.

There is no mammal species that the first ____ peoples of that area had more opportunity to domesticate than gazelles.

But no gazelle ____ has ever been domesticated.

Just imagine trying to herd an animal that runs away, blindly hits itself against walls, ____ leap up to nearly 30 feet, and can run at a speed of 50 miles per hour!

For a species born in a time ____ resources were limited and dangers were great, our natural tendency to share and cooperate is complicated when resources are plenty and outside dangers are few.

When we have less, we tend to be more open to sharing what we ____.

Certain nomadic tribes don’t have much, yet they are ____ to share because it is in their interest to do so.

If you happen upon them in your travels, they ____ open up their homes and give you their food and hospitality.

It’s not just because they are nice ____; it’s because their survival depends on sharing, for they know that they may be the travelers in need of food and shelter another day.

Ironically, the more we have, the bigger our fences, the ____ sophisticated our security to keep people away and the less we want to share.

Our desire for more, combined with our decreased physical interaction with the “common folk,” starts to create a disconnection or ____ to reality.