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 ____ as we haven’t been able to reach you despite several attempts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One day in class, ____ 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 only one person had his hand ____ to answer her question.

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

In ____ mind, I was shouting, Purdue! Purdue!

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

Finally, she called on Mark to answer ____ question.

He smiled and ____ loudly, “Purdue.”

In that ____ I felt so disappointed in myself.

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

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

When a crisis strikes, you will only feel stymied and ____ 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 need to back away from your goals so you ____ see them in the broader context of your life.

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

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

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

The result 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 ____

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

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

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

The family could win back 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, ____ 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, ____ cleaning it or paying someone else to clean it.

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

The house will be ____ and so will its residents.

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

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

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

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

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

These problems are not limited to ____ nations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The threshold for interestingness is totally different in ____ field.

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

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

Furthermore, dogs in ____ communicate about communication.

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

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

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

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

Percy Spencer was an American ____ and inventor.

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

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

After the war, he joined Raytheon, a company that manufactured magnetrons, vacuum tubes used ____ 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 ____ magnetron.

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

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

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

Our world is different from a squirrel’s, ____ 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 ____ 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 charged electrons that orbit around it.

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

Negatively charged electrons in the atoms of ____ objects 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 ____ a model that we call solidity, which is a useful concept that works in our version of reality Dawkins calls “the middle world.”

In fact, electrons ____ are not “things” 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 ____ fast approaching’ is strange.

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

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

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

We do it in our bodies, ____ is why we talk of the head of government, 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, when we think of others’ actions, we do so by ____ them out ourselves, speaking others’ words in our own voice and yawning someone else’s yawn.

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

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

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

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