공통영어1 능률 오선영 1과 본문 빈칸 테스트

“To grow into a better ____ of ourselves, we should not stay as we are.”

That was the ____ thing our teacher said to us on the first day of school.

She wanted us to start the semester by pushing ourselves out of our comfort ____ and learning more about ourselves.

To help us do so, she ____ us an assignment to challenge ourselves in three different ways.

The ____ challenges could involve hobbies, exercise, our studies, or even our relationships.

The important part was trying ____ new for each one.

She ____ us that we should share our experiences with our classmates when we finished the challenges.

These days, I tend to watch movies on streaming ____.

However, if I go to the theater, I usually watch an action or science fiction ____ with my friends or family.

Those are the ____ of movies they enjoy.

Going to the theater alone was something I had ____ done before.

So, for the first challenge, I decided to give it a ____.

It was nice to ____ the movie and the seat on my own.

I didn’t ____ to worry about anyone else’s preferences.

I saw the experience as a good opportunity to watch something different, so I chose a ____ drama that I had been curious about.

At first, it felt a bit awkward and lonely to sit in the ____ by myself.

But ____ the movie started, I became completely absorbed in the story.

It was so ____ just to focus on the movie itself.

There was ____ to distract me!

This experience made me ____ that I sometimes enjoy doing things alone.

After the movie, I promised myself that I would try to make my ____ choices more often and enjoy more activities by myself in the future.

Ever since I was a child, I’ve ____ been afraid of water.

So I ____ never enjoyed water activities or felt comfortable while doing them.

For the second challenge, I ____ to try to overcome this discomfort.

However, I ____ sure what to do at first.

One day, I came across a video clip of my cousin surfing at an indoor ____ on social media.

It looked fun, and I liked the fact that it took place in a shallow pool, not in the ____.

I messaged my cousin ____ it.

She assured me that it wasn’t too hard, so I ____ up for a beginner course.

At the ____ of the lesson, it was hard just to stand up on the board.

After some ____ from the instructor, however, I learned how to balance properly and even managed to surf a few waves!

It gave me such a rush of ____.

Being in the ____ wasn’t as bad as I had thought.

While the experience didn’t completely change my mind about water sports, it ____ help me discover my sense of adventure.

Of all the challenges I chose for myself, the third one made me the most nervous: changing my ____.

For many years, I had kept the same hairstyle because I had been worried about my ____.

I had ____ thought it was large, and I didn’t want to draw attention to it.

Since I was feeling confident after the first two challenges, I went to a hair ____ and talked to the stylist.

He listened to my ____ and helped me find a shorter hairstyle that suited me.

The ____ day at school, my classmates were a bit surprised.

But overall, the reactions were ____.

I ____ that trying a different look wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be.

In fact, it made me feel ____ confident about myself.

I didn’t expect that stepping out of my comfort zone ____ have such a positive effect on how I felt about myself.

I learned a lot about myself through this assignment, and I found ____ that my classmates did, too.

One of them tried new foods from different countries, while another joined a creative writing ____.

Through these experiences, we all realized how important it is to push ourselves to ____ new things.

We ____ different perspectives on life and had a lot of fun, too!

My classmates and I even talked about setting ____ challenges for ourselves.

There are always more things that we can discover about ourselves, and ____ exciting to keep learning and growing.

We never ____ what we’re capable of until we try!