2027 수능특강 영어 Test 1 빈칸 퀴즈

We are considering ordering 50 ____ 2-inch plastic balls for the city-wide Youth Activity Day on June 14.

____ to your website, the balls are normally sold in individual plastic and cardboard packages.

However, we will not need packaging or transportation for our order as we can pick up the balls, packed loose in cardboard boxes, ____ from your warehouse.

Given ____ circumstances, I would like to request a discount on our order.

I believe that a discount of at least 25% ____ be reasonable.

If you agree to this, please confirm the ____ in writing.

If not, I would appreciate a call at 555-5555 as soon as possible so we can reach a mutually agreeable ____.

I look forward to your positive response and hope that we can finalize the order details ____.

Noah sat on the ____ bench, watching people set up telescopes.

His parents had brought him to see a ____ shower, but he didn't care much.

He ____ never thought the night sky was interesting.

Stars were just tiny dots, and he didn't see why ____ were so excited.

He folded his arms and stared at the ground, ____ for time to pass.

Around ____, voices buzzed with excitement, but he barely listened.

Then, a ____ wave of surprise spread through the crowd.

He ____ up.

A bright line of light shot ____ the sky, then another.

The meteors burned fast, disappearing in ____.

His eyes ____.

How often did this happen? Could he predict the next one? Were there more ____?

He leaned forward, scanning ____ corner of the sky.

The stars, once meaningless, now held his full ____.

For the first time, he ____ wanted to see more.

Employees ____ are not privacy "literate" represent a vulnerability for businesses.

They may compromise privacy and security ____ and expose personal or confidential information without realizing it.

Employee online access rights can and should be limited to ____ each employee needs to perform his or her job.

However, while physical barriers, firewalls, passwords, and other security measures are useful, for most organizations access to ____ amounts of sensitive information by employees is necessary to do business.

The key to ensuring employee adherence to privacy and security measures is to educate them and to develop a practice of ongoing education and other opportunities for reinforcement of the role that all employees play in securing critical information privacy by adhering to proper privacy and ____ protocols.

Employees may ____ differing levels of access to information, but all should understand the importance of protecting private or confidential information and how their actions affect the security of this information.

The very ____ of private or commercially confidential information means that it should not be made publicly available.

An odd, but interesting trigger I ran across while researching, was introduced by a man called Robert ____ had already recovered about 75 percent from RSI after reading Dr. Sarno's second book.

He would have been nearly 100 percent recovered but he could not change the pattern of ____ that occurred when using his right index finger to click the computer's mouse.

In Robert's own words, "The strange part is that my finger and hand don't hurt when I close my eyes and move/click the mouse. It's as if the screen (and software) is the trigger for the ____!"

He reduces his visual ____ when he closes his eyes, one of his senses.

So, closing his eyes allegorically opens them by removing the ____ trigger.

If he unconsciously despises staring at his computer screen because staring at it is in conflict with his unconscious wants and needs, then closing his eyes "cuts ____" the source of information that triggers his anger, i.e., his eyesight.

____ is one of the senses that blinds us (Lao Tzu).

Handing over decision making to your children is a gradual process based on their ____, maturity, and decision-making history.

It would be ____ dangerous to give children complete latitude in their decision making.

You can, however, begin to teach decision ____ to very young children by setting reasonable limits to their decisions.

For example, if you took your children into a convenience store and told them they could have anything they wanted, they would be overwhelmed by the choices (which, research shows, either tend to prevent ____ from making decisions or result in poor decisions).

However, you can give them limited options to choose from, such as jawbreakers, licorice, and bubble gum (or, better yet, sesame sticks, fruit wraps, and yogurt peanuts), and they would ____ decide which treat they want.

Your children will learn to make decisions, but they won't be inundated by the huge number of options available to ____.

When we were investigating why Americans valued ____ so much, we found widespread confusion among consumers about which foods are healthy and sustainable.

As part of the project, we asked consumers to sort different foods in ____ way they thought they should be grouped.

Participants ended up dividing ____ into groups such as fruits, vegetables, and dairy.

However, most ____ didn't know how to sort plant-based "milks" and meat alternatives.

Interestingly, they ____ consider them as part of any typical food group.

In ____, most people still don't understand (or trust) lab-grown or cultured meats.

The reaction to lab-grown meats will likely be ____ to the often negative reactions to and suspicions of genetically modified foods when they first came on the market.

These gaps in literacy of emerging technologies hinder the successful implementation of ____ that could have environmental and health benefits.

In an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of ____, Los Angeles, study subjects were required to give a series of unplanned speeches in front of an audience (a reliable way to trigger anxiety).

Half of the participants were then asked to engage in what the researchers call "____ labeling," filling in responses to the prompt "I feel ____________," while the other half were asked to complete a neutral shape-matching task.

The affect-labeling group showed steep declines in heart rate and skin conductance compared to the control group, whose levels of physiological arousal remained ____.

Brain-scanning studies offer further evidence of the calming effect of affect labeling: simply naming what is felt reduces activity in the amygdala, the brain structure involved in processing fear and ____ strong emotions.

Meanwhile, thinking in a more involved way about feelings and the experiences that evoked them actually produces greater ____ in the amygdala.

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister, was born on ____ 16, 1923, and is of third-generation ethnic Chinese descent.

He ____ in the Senior Cambridge examinations in 1940, earning the John Anderson Scholarship to attend Raffles College.

During the ____ ceremony, he met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo, the only girl in the school.

The onset of World War II in Asia disrupted Raffles College, which was converted into a medical facility in ____.

After the war, Lee chose not to ____ to Raffles College and pursued higher education in the United Kingdom.

Initially, he enrolled at the London School of Economics but eventually studied ____ at Cambridge University.

Lee Kuan Yew served as prime ____ for 31 years, from 1959 to 1990.

While his government restricted freedoms and maintained strict control over power, he also built excellent public housing, transforming Singapore into one of ____ wealthiest countries.

Jean Baudrillard, one of the best-known French social theorists, believes that the world of culture today is based on simulation, not ____.

According to Baudrillard, social life is much ____ a spectacle that simulates reality than reality itself.

People often gain "reality" ____ the media, where reality is not always as it might appear.

Many U.S. children, upon entering ____ for the first time, have already watched more hours of television than the total number of hours of classroom instruction they will encounter in their entire school careers.

Add to this the number of hours that some ____ have spent playing computer games or surfing the Internet.

Baudrillard refers to this social creation as hyperreality ― a situation in which the simulation of ____ is more real than the thing itself.

For Baudrillard, everyday ____ has been captured by the signs and symbols generated to represent it, and we ultimately relate to simulations and models as if they were reality.

Things become complicated when we consider a task that involves ____ processes differing in automaticity.

In a psychological task, people are required to name aloud the color of words while ____ the words themselves.

Sometimes, the words are compatible with the color with ____ they are printed (e.g., "red" printed with red ink).

In other conditions, the words are incompatible with their color (e.g., "red" printed in ____).

People usually complete this task more slowly in incompatible than ____ conditions.

On incompatible trials, people do not ____ to respond to the meaning of the word (the task is to name the ink color, not the word), but they typically become aware that it is easier said than done.

They ____ their attention is being drawn to the content of the words, despite its irrelevance to the task at hand and their intention to ignore it.

To ____ this automatic draw on attention, people must assert control to report a judgment that has been made challenging by a competing automatic process.

So, in this ____, people are aware of an automatic process, but they cannot stop it and have difficulty correcting its influence.

If you told me that you don't like sharp ____, I would believe you.

If you said that you don't like the texture of very soft cheeses, I would pity ____, but I would believe you.

But if you say that you don't like ____ cheese, I don't believe you because cheeses simply don't taste, look, or feel the same.

What my friend dislikes is ____ being called "cheese."

I'm sure that he had a bad ____ experience in childhood.

He ate something he didn't like and ____ that "cheese" is bad.

With that negative attitude, he quickly rejected anything else called "____" (and very likely did not have a wide experience with cheeses anyway), reinforcing his belief that "cheese" is bad.

As a result, this friend, who is in other respects normal, cannot bear to eat ____ that he believes is called "cheese."

He actually thinks that there is some flavor or ____ of cheese that makes it taste bad to him.

But that is ____ the case: cheeses don't share a particular texture or flavor or source.

He hates the category, ____ the actual stuff.

The issue of cultural variation in emotions ____ been controversial.

At first, it was widely believed that different cultures produced radically different emotional states, so that a person from one culture could ____ even begin to understand what someone from another culture was feeling.

This view received a severe blow from evidence that ____ from very different cultures could translate emotion words effectively and even recognize facial expressions of emotion.

A highly influential research program by Paul Ekman and his associates began with photographs of facial expressions that Americans would easily recognize as expressing different basic emotions: ____, sad, happy, and the like.

Ekman and his group traveled all over the world showing the photographs to people in widely different cultures, including even some distant tribes that had had almost no contact with Western ____.

By and large, most people in every culture recognized the emotions expressed in those ____ faces.

These results convinced most doubters that some aspects of emotions are innate and ____.

Good thinkers rarely limit themselves to a single way of ____ the world.

For example, when Galileo finally ____ around to doing some empirical studies of gravity, he was plagued by the inaccuracies of the current technology of measurement.

Instead of waiting a couple of hundred years for the invention of a good stopwatch, he slowed things down by studying the behavior of bodies rolling ____ inclined planes.

By doing so, Galileo was able to demonstrate ____ convincingly that heavy and light objects "fell" at the same rate.

In addition, he was able to ____ something more subtle and perhaps more important.

Things ____ simply fall at a constant rate: they constantly accelerate.

Of course, accepting Galileo's conclusions requires us to make some logical inferences about the compatibility of ____ and falling, but this is exactly the point.

Galileo was not simply a good ____ or a good observer.

One of his unique talents was his ability to blend logic and observation into a seamless set of arguments that could knock someone's socks off (and predict how quickly they ____ fall to the floor).

Accustomed to bargains and overwhelmed with ____, consumers must have a reason to buy now.

In addition to the actual product they're ____, consumers expect something more, an incentive that will give them an extra emotional charge.

____, an event, multiple uses for the product, entertaining pop-up stores, or a great story (such as a special product heritage or theme) are more examples of plus-one incentives that result in purchases.

"Do-good" products such as those that tout being ____ conscious or supporting communities offer not just one but three plus-one purchasing incentives: a compelling and human story, rationalization, and an emotional boost for the consumer who feels altruistic while spending.

For example, consumers who purchase Tom's Shoes or Walgreen's flu shots are told that their purchase will result in a pair of shoes or a ____ shot being donated to someone in need through each company's one-to-one matching program.

Thus, in addition to their purchase, consumers also get to see themselves in a more positive light; they feel less wary about these businesses, which have been humanized through a compelling story of need; and they have the rationalization of ____ rather than spending.

Postage stamps were ____ bearing images of state sovereignty and authority.

Taking their ____ from coins and banknotes, postal officials understood that the stamps they were printing to facilitate the circulation of letters and packages among the population could also be used for a different kind of circulation: that of state imagery.

Postage stamps, tiny though they were, nonetheless had space enough for the state to use them to circulate messages ____ its own supremacy.

Iconic images of flags and coats of arms began to circulate on stamps, but, above all, stamps ____ portraits of the personages considered uniquely suitable to stand for the nation-state: heads of state, allegorical figures, military heroes, and other historically important men.

From the beginning, then, stamps depicted state power ____ in images of exemplary personhood even as they provided ordinary people with an important means for communicating with one another.

There's a difference between a ____ and a plot.

They may seem to be the same ____ (a narrative account of some action with a beginning, middle, and end), but they aren't.

A story, as ____ to a plot, is the straightforward account of everything that happens in the order that it happens.

A plot is the way events are ____ and arranged with an emphasis not only on what happened but on why it happened.

In other words, plots involve cause and effect, not ____ one event following another.

The English novelist E. M. Forster illustrated the ____ between story and plot by this example.

Here's a story: The king died and ____ the queen died.

This is a succession of events, simply ____ temporally: this happened and then this happened.

Here's a plot: The king died and then the ____ died of grief.

Events are now connected by cause and effect: the death of the ____ led to the death of the queen from grief.

For Forster, a story asks "And then?" (X happens and ____ Y happens). A plot asks "Why?"

Married couples are highly motivated to empathize with one another; to do this, they mimic each other's ____ expressions, which in turn facilitates similar emotional experiences.

People ____ are on the same page get along better and are more likely to stay happily married.

Over time, research confirms, this mimicry ____ to permanent changes in how the face is shaped.

In one study, more than a hundred volunteers were shown photographs of men and women taken in their first year of marriage and taken ____ years later, on the spouses' silver wedding anniversary.

They were also shown photos of ____ matched pairs at the same ages.

The ____ were asked to judge the physical similarity of the couples.

Sure enough, there was an increase in similarity among the married couples at the twenty-five-year mark, but not the randomly matched ____.

____ striking, the more similar people looked, the happier they reported they were in their union.

So next time you are struggling to connect with your spouse, try to subtly mimic his or her facial expression; it is likely to make you ____ in sync and strengthen that emotional link that can weaken in times of strife.

In the 1960s, Richard ____, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Irvine, recorded the activity of single neurons in the cortex of cats while the animals were presented with series of tones or of light flashes.

____ cells fired only after a certain number of events.

One neuron, for instance, reacted after six events of any kind, regardless of whether this was six flashes of ____, six brief tones, or six longer tones.

Sensory modality did not seem to matter: The neuron apparently cared only ____ number.

Unlike a digital computer, it did not respond in a discrete ____ manner, either.

Rather, its activation level grew after the fifth item, reached a ____ for the sixth, and decreased for larger numbers of items.

Several similar ____, each tuned to a different number, were recorded in a small area of the cat's cortex.

Information technology can play an important role in both bringing communities together and ____ them apart.

On the one hand, IT has the potential to increase shared information and norms ____ larger groups.

For instance, in the 1960s, ____ Americans got their news from one of three national television networks and a small number of other publications.

If Walter Cronkite, a ____ American broadcast journalist, said it, many Americans believed it was true.

That ____ certainly helped spread more shared norms across a country that previously had strong regional differences.

But in the 2016 presidential election, many Americans got their news from social networking sites and other online media that created highly tailored news feeds for ____ individual.

If you had liberal friends and interests, you were rarely exposed to conservative ____ outlets, and vice versa.

In a community where each subgroup saw a different set of facts about the ____ and had a different value system for interpreting those facts, the shared norms needed for the overall community to function effectively were greatly weakened.

In a sense, the United States seemed to be ____ into two separate communities.

Animals often compete: over food, a mate, a territory, or some other ____.

But rather than jump immediately to physical fighting, individuals typically engage in nonaggressive communicative displays, like the roaring of red deer, the "jousting" displays of stalk-eyed flies, the croaking of European toads, or the ____ "wahoo" calls of male baboons.

Ethologists now have a good understanding of how these displays have evolved ― that is, why they are ____ stable.

In red deer, for ____, roaring is energetically costly, so only males in good physical condition can roar repeatedly, for long durations.

Moreover, the acoustic features of a ____ roar are constrained by his body size, so only large males can produce deep-pitched roars.

And larger males are ____ successful fighters.

As a consequence, a male's roaring cannot be faked ― because small males and males in poor condition cannot produce low-pitched roars at a high rate ― and roaring ____ as an honest indicator of size, condition, and competitive ability.

Animals use displays to avoid physical ____, as these signals accurately reflect physical condition and size, making them reliable evolutionary indicators of competitive strength.

To demonstrate how our minds have adapted, consider a ____ high school task: writing a research paper.

Baby Boomers most likely went to their local library, searched card catalogues, took longhand notes, and painstakingly typed their ____ on a typewriter.

Their challenge was in finding ____.

They ____ things like how to spell words, because reference materials weren't readily available and the process of checking was time consuming.

And they were ____ and precise when typing ― correcting took time.

Baby Boomer brains were trained to focus, pay ____ to detail, be patient, and have mental strength.

Haste meant ____.

____ to today.

The Baby Boomer ____ of finding information is less relevant ― information is extremely accessible.

Memorization and ____ are less essential as well ― it's easy to check facts and spelling.

This means that those brain activities don't get the workout today that they did for previous generations of ____ school students.

Today's young brains are heavily focused on scanning and processing mountains of ____.

Their brains are trained for ____.

But it's not only the young who are increasingly addicted to ____.

Their saturation in and early use of technology makes them highly tuned to require more stimulation and become more easily bored ― but everyone's brains are ____.

We're ____ less patient and less able to focus, and we all want things faster.

It's no ____ we've replaced the word "trend" with "trending."

We barely alight on a new ____ long enough for it to be a trend; it's just zipping by or "trending."