공통영어1 비상 홍민표 1과 본문 빈칸 테스트

Welcome to a new season of ____ School Magazine.

To start off the new school ____ on the right foot, we asked some of our recent graduates to give us tips on how to succeed in the coming year and beyond.

Compare ____ to Apples

In high ____, everyone told me how talented an artist I was, so I dreamed of becoming an illustrator.

In university, though, everyone seemed ____ more talented than me, and they all worked so hard that I felt small in comparison.

I ____ about giving up my dream of becoming an artist.

____ one day, I happened to see a drawing I had won an award for from middle school on the kitchen wall.

I was embarrassed because it ____ very good.

People ____ you shouldn’t compare apples to oranges, and they’re right.

That’s why it doesn’t make sense to compare yourself to Internet personalities or ____ people in your real life.

____ they had an advantage, or even a disadvantage, that you didn’t.

If you are going to compare ____ to anyone, the only fair comparison is “yesterday-you.”

Only you know where you ____ and how much effort you’ve put in.

I couldn’t see the progress in my ability when I only ____ myself to others.

Everyone ____ differently.

I’m able to ____ now the drawing in the kitchen was full of mistakes that I no longer make.

It is empowering to see how I have improved rather than to envy the ____ of others.

Your competition isn’t the person next door or the ____ on social media: it’s you.

Do you share your opinion in ____ discussions, or do you just stay silent and keep it to yourself?

Like many of you, I often found myself in the ____ group.

A little black hole ____ of me swallowed my voice when I considered speaking up.

The consequences of being ____ or being wrong were always on my mind.

Then, after a ____ heated conversation in class, I asked myself, “What am I afraid of?”

I was scared that bad things would ____, but I never thought about good things.

When I noticed others taking risks, I knew that I needed to do the same in order to ____.

Many people are scared to speak up, but a lot of them do it anyway ____ they think it’s worth it.

So I left my comfort zone and started to ____ up.

I grew intellectually and socially by expressing myself ____ clearly.

I got closer to friends who liked how open I was with ____.

Now I have more people with whom I can ____, share my ideas, and learn new things.

Remember, taking the risk of ____ yourself can be extremely rewarding in unexpected ways.

As I worked through my second year into my third in college, I had ____ troubles balancing school and personal life.

I would get excited, anxious, worried, and bored ____ at once and then separately.

I would get exhausted when I had to ____ a report for my courses, mediate a disaster between friends, and respond to the comments on my online journal.

I was ____ in a sea of responsibilities, concerns, and anxieties, and that was when I read an article with a simple insight.

The article advised me to ____ two big circles, with myself in the center.

The smaller circle is my circle of influence, and I have direct control over the things inside it: what I eat and ____, how I behave, or what I do after school.

The bigger circle is called my circle of concern: things I worry about but ____ no direct control over.

For example, I have no ____ control over how my professor will react to my report, but I do have control over the amount of research I do for it.

Believing that everything was in my ____ of influence left me stressed out and constantly exhausted.

By wasting less energy on my circle of concern, I was able to invest more energy into things that ____.

I no longer worry about ____ my friends think, and I focus on my own actions.

I don’t get anxious over what might be on the test, and ____ I put in every effort to understand the concepts themselves.

Now, I only ____ my mental and physical energy into my circle of influence: eating healthy, staying in shape, and working hard.