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 ____ able to reach you despite several attempts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One day in class, our ____ 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 raised to answer her ____.

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

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

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

Finally, she called on Mark to answer her ____.

He smiled and answered ____, “Purdue.”

In that moment, I ____ so disappointed in myself.

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

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

When a crisis strikes, you will only feel stymied and aggravated if you ____ 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 can see them in the broader context of your ____.

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 32 ____ is spent for housing (that’s the house, 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- ____ furniture that doesn’t need constant replacing, and having a different attitude about what a house is for.

If they ____ it a trophy or “display unit,” they’ll spend hours a week decorating and redecorating it, and 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, a workshop in the garage, and an accessible ____ to store well-used bicycles and a scooter.

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

____ management, lack of adequate conservation, pollution, and rapid local increases in demand create localized shortages of drinkable water 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 ____ diseases that killed so many in the past are a problem of the past.

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

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

These problems are ____ limited to developing nations.

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

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

Often, when I talk to computer scientists, they suggest looking at the five ____ results, 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 pull a list of ____ for employees of a school district.

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

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

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

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

Computer scientists ____ the liberty 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 ____ in each field.

____ play can be a form of competition and a form 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 themselves and enjoy ____.

Furthermore, ____ in play communicate about communication.

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

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

Dogs also communicate ____ the future in play: they negotiate social hierarchies, can work 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 in the group, allowing the strengthening or ____ of social bonds.

____ Spencer was an American physicist and inventor.

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

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

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

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

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

This led Spencer to develop the ____ 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 earned a place in the National Inventors ____ of Fame in 1999.

Our world is different from a squirrel’s, and it is ____ 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 resists our hands ____ they approach.

Negatively charged electrons in the atoms of approaching objects repel ____ 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 themselves are not “things” that can be seen with a powerful enough microscope; they are just theoretical concepts used to explain the ____ of subatomic parts.

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

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

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

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

We do it in our ____, which 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’ ____, we do so by acting them out ourselves, speaking others’ words in our own voice and yawning someone else’s yawn.

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

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

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

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