공통영어1 비상 홍민표 1과 본문 빈칸 테스트

Welcome to a ____ season of High School Magazine.

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

Compare Apples to ____

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

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

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

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

I was embarrassed because it wasn’t very ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ develops 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 success of ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ grew intellectually and socially by expressing myself more clearly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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