2027 수능특강 영어 Test 1 빈칸 퀴즈

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Noah sat on the park ____ watching people set up telescopes.

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

He had never thought ____ night sky was interesting.

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

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

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

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

He looked ____

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

The meteors burned ____ disappearing in seconds.

His ____ widened.

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

He leaned forward, scanning every corner of the ____

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

For the first time, he truly wanted to see ____

Employees who are ____ privacy "literate" represent a vulnerability for businesses.

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

Employee online access rights can and should be limited to what ____ 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 ____ 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 security protocols.

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

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

An odd, but interesting trigger I ran across while researching, ____ introduced by a man called Robert who 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 ____ pattern of pain 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 ____ screen (and software) is the trigger for the pain!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can, however, begin to teach decision making to ____ 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, ____ tend to prevent people from making decisions or result in poor decisions).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interestingly, they didn't consider them as ____ 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 similar ____ the often negative reactions to and suspicions of genetically modified foods when they first came on the market.

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

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

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

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

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 ____ and other strong emotions.

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

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

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

During the prize-awarding ceremony, ____ 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 ____ 1941.

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

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

Lee Kuan Yew served as prime minister for ____ 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 ____ culture today is based on simulation, not reality.

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

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

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

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

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

For Baudrillard, everyday life has been captured by the signs and symbols ____ 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 multiple ____ differing in automaticity.

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

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

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

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

On incompatible trials, people do ____ intend 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 realize their attention is being drawn to the content of the words, despite its irrelevance ____ the task at hand and their intention to ignore it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He ____ the category, not the actual stuff.

The issue of cultural ____ in emotions has been controversial.

At first, it was widely believed that different cultures produced radically different emotional states, so that a person from one culture could not even begin to understand what someone from another culture ____ feeling.

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

A highly influential research program by Paul Ekman and his associates began with photographs of facial ____ that Americans would easily recognize as expressing different basic emotions: angry, 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 ____ had had almost no contact with Western civilization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In addition, he was able to show something more subtle ____ 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 rolling and falling, ____ this is exactly the point.

Galileo was ____ simply a good logician or a good observer.

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

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

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

Customization, 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 ____ in purchases.

"Do-good" products such as those that tout being environmentally conscious or supporting communities offer not ____ 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 flu shot being donated to someone in need through ____ 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 ____ and they have the rationalization of giving rather than spending.

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

Taking their cue 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 ____ for a different kind of circulation: that of state imagery.

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

Iconic images of ____ and coats of arms began to circulate on stamps, but, above all, stamps hosted 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 expressed in images of exemplary personhood even as they ____ 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 thing (a narrative account of ____ action with a beginning, middle, and end), but they aren't.

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

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

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

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

Here's a story: The ____ died and then 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 king led to the death of ____ queen from grief.

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

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

____ who 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 ____ in their first year of marriage and taken twenty-five years later, on the spouses' silver wedding anniversary.

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

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

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

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

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

In ____ 1960s, Richard Thompson, 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.

Some cells fired only after a certain ____ of events.

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

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

Unlike a digital computer, it did not ____ in a discrete all-or-none manner, either.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a community where ____ subgroup saw a different set of facts about the world 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, ____ some other resource.

But rather than jump immediately to physical fighting, individuals typically engage in nonaggressive communicative displays, like the roaring of red ____ the "jousting" displays of stalk-eyed flies, the croaking of European toads, or the loud "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 male's roar are constrained by ____ body size, so only large males can produce deep-pitched roars.

And larger males are more ____ fighters.

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

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

To demonstrate how our ____ have adapted, consider a typical 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 ____ information.

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

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

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

Haste meant ____

Fast-forward to ____

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

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

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

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

Their brains ____ trained for speed.

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

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

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

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

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