2026 수능특강 영어 Test 3 변형문제 (1-13번)

Dear Mr. Cooper, We’ve missed you since your last dental visit on May 3rd, and we’re a bit concerned as we haven’t been able ____ reach you despite several attempts.

We understand that life gets ____ but completing your dental treatment is very important.

By scheduling your follow-up ____ soon, we can ensure your treatment is completed successfully.

Delaying further could worsen your condition, potentially leading to more ____ procedures.

Remember that an investment in your dental health now will save you both money and discomfort ____ the long run.

Please know that if you have stopped treatment ____ to financial concerns, our staff can work with you on a payment plan that will let you complete your treatment.

We want to help you keep your teeth healthy ____ a lifetime.

Please call us at 253-2268-3384 or email us at patrick@oralcare.com, to continue ____ treatment. We hope to see you soon!

One ____ in class, our teacher asked if anyone knew which college was located in Lafayette, Indiana.

I knew that the answer was Purdue University. I looked around our classroom, and ____ one person had his hand raised to answer her question.

Mark, the smartest kid ____ our class, was waving his hand high with a big smile on his face.

In my mind, I was ____ Purdue! Purdue!

I wanted to answer, but I couldn’t raise my hand because ____ was afraid my answer might be wrong.

Finally, ____ called on Mark to answer her question.

He smiled ____ answered loudly, “Purdue.”

In that moment, ____ felt so disappointed in myself.

If only I could have had the courage to raise my hand and answer her question, the kids might have thought ____ I was somewhat smart.

The thought of kids making fun of me outweighed my decision to participate in class. ____ shouldn’t have doubted myself.

When a crisis strikes, ____ will only feel stymied and aggravated if you continue to focus on your goals, or more accurately, your inability to pursue them.

To prevent yourself from being overwhelmed by these feelings, you will ____ to back away from your goals so you can see them in the broader context of your life.

In doing so, you will be able to put your goals ____ perspective, which will better serve you in responding to the crisis at hand.

You will come to see your goals as only one part of the landscape of your ____ rather than the central part.

This new perspective will ____ it easier to accept what is more immediately important (the crisis) and make peace with what isn’t (your life goals).

The ____ is that your investment in your life goals will temporarily decline to a manageable level that allows you to refocus your energies onto the more pressing matter of the crisis.

According to the federal Bureau of ____ Statistics, roughly 63 percent of average household expenditure is spent for housing, transportation, and food.

Each of these categories represents huge opportunities for ____ waste, stress, and the dark threat of bankruptcy.

About 32 percent is spent for housing (that’s the house, utilities, furniture, and ____

The family could win ____ time, money, and vitality by living in a smaller, better-designed house with efficient appliances and good natural daylight, buying well- built furniture that doesn’t need constant replacing, and having a different attitude about what a house is for.

If they consider it a trophy or “display unit,” they’ll spend hours a week decorating and redecorating it, and cleaning it or paying someone else to ____ it.

But if their house ____ more of a healthy verb than a passive noun, there may be a vegetable garden out back, a workshop in the garage, and an accessible place to store well-used bicycles and a scooter.

The house will be comfortable, and so will ____ residents.

Poor management, lack of adequate conservation, pollution, and rapid local increases in demand create localized shortages of drinkable ____ worldwide.

In developing nations, the problem is even worse; only about half ____ the people have access to safe drinking water.

In the Western world, we have come to believe that the waterborne intestinal diseases that killed so ____ in the past are a problem of the past.

This is not the case, however. In developing nations, an estimated 10 million deaths each year result from ____ intestinal diseases.

Even in the United States, recent localized outbreaks of illness and death from ____ and Escherichia coli-contaminated water supplies have forced communities to recognize that we all are at risk at times.

These problems ____ not limited to developing nations.

Surface and underground water supplies in industrial nations are being polluted by industrial and municipal wastes and by surface runoff from urban and ____ areas.

Heavy demands for water by industry, agriculture, and local governments are rapidly depleting groundwater ____

Often, when I talk to computer scientists, ____ suggest looking at the five highest results, the five lowest results, and the average values in a dataset.

This is a good instinct, ____ it isn’t always interesting from a journalistic perspective.

Let’s say that we pull a list of salaries ____ employees of a school district.

The five highest-paid employees are likely to be the superintendent ____ the highest-ranking executives.

The five lowest-paid employees are likely to be nonunionized, ____ employees.

This isn’t news. It might be surprising or mildly interesting to someone who hasn’t seen a lot of ____ scales, but that’s different than being newsworthy.

In journalism, we have an obligation to be both accurate and interesting to a mass ____

Computer scientists have the liberty to be interesting on a smaller scale to a highly trained audience (which is something ____ always makes me jealous).

The threshold for interestingness is totally different in ____ field.

Dog play can be a form of competition and a ____ of cooperation.

Dogs need to play to learn social rules, but it is more than a learning mechanism; dogs are creative in play, and they express ____ and enjoy themselves.

Furthermore, dogs in play communicate ____ communication.

When the play gets rough and they accidentally hurt one another, they bend forward as a way ____ greeting and use other play behaviors to explain that they mean no harm, that it was just in fun.

They also use play gestures when the preferred partner responds ____ a serious way to acts that were meant as play.

Dogs also communicate about the future in play: they negotiate social hierarchies, can ____ out tensions and conflicts in a safe way, and form friendships.

This meta-communication enables them to learn about their own strength and the strength of others ____ the group, allowing the strengthening or clarification of social bonds.

Percy Spencer was an American physicist ____ inventor.

Born in Maine in 1894, he had limited formal education, leaving school ____ the eighth grade.

He joined the US Navy during World War I and served as a radio technician, where he ____ a strong interest in electronics.

After the war, he joined Raytheon, a company that manufactured magnetrons, vacuum ____ used to generate microwaves.

While working on radar technology during World War II, Spencer noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted when he stood near a running ____

Intrigued, he experimented further, placing food items like popcorn and eggs near the magnetron and observing how they cooked rapidly from ____ inside out.

This led Spencer to develop the first microwave oven, a modified radar unit called the ‘Radarange,’ in 1946, and its commercial units were large and expensive, ____ they were primarily used in restaurants and by the military.

He earned a place in ____ National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999.

Our world ____ different from a squirrel’s, and it is also different from the world that we cannot see at all, a world inhabited by atomic and subatomic particles.

In this world, there is no solidity and therefore no touching of objects. Even though it feels to us that we are continually touching solid objects, they are mostly space: the space between an atom’s nucleus and the negatively ____ electrons that orbit around it.

Objects feel solid because of the electromagnetic repulsion that resists our ____ when they approach.

Negatively charged electrons in the atoms of approaching ____ repel one another in the same way that two negatively charged ends of different magnets do.

Even though what is happening at the atomic level is electromagnetic repulsion, our brains create a model that we call solidity, which is a useful concept that works in our version ____ reality Dawkins calls “the middle world.”

In fact, electrons themselves are not ____ that can be seen with a powerful enough microscope; they are just theoretical concepts used to explain the behaviour of subatomic parts.

Our representation of time is random. The phrase ‘Christmas is fast approaching’ ____ strange.

Approaching from where? Does it come from ____ south, the north, the west?

Actually, Christmas isn’t located anywhere. It ____ in time.

This phrase, or the analogous one, ‘we’re getting close to the ____ of the year’, reveals something of how our minds organize our thoughts.

We do it in our bodies, which is why we talk of the head of ____ of someone’s right-hand man, the armpit of the world and many other metaphors that reflect how we organize thought in a template defined by our own bodies.

And because of that, ____ we think of others’ actions, we do so by acting them out ourselves, speaking others’ words in our own voice and yawning someone else’s yawn.

You can do a ____ experiment at home to test out this mechanism.

During a conversation, cross your arms. It’s ____ likely that the person you are speaking to will do the same.

You can take it further with bolder gestures, like ____ your head, or scratching yourself, or stretching.

The probability that the other person will ____ you is high.