2026 수능특강 영어 Test 3 변형문제 (1-13번)

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

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

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

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

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

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

We want to help you keep your teeth healthy for a ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finally, she ____ on Mark to answer her question.

He smiled and answered loudly, ____

In that moment, I felt so disappointed in ____

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

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

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

To prevent ____ 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 life.

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

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

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

The result is that your investment in your life goals will temporarily decline to a manageable ____ 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 ____ for housing, transportation, and food.

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

About ____ percent 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 ____ buying well- built furniture that doesn’t need constant replacing, and having a different attitude about what a house is for.

If they consider ____ 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 ____ 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, ____ of adequate conservation, pollution, and rapid local increases in demand create localized shortages of drinkable water 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 ____ that the waterborne intestinal 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 ____ illness and death from Cryptosporidium- and Escherichia coli-contaminated water supplies have forced communities 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 ____ being polluted 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 ____ looking at the five highest results, the five lowest results, and the average values in a dataset.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The threshold for interestingness is totally different in ____ field.

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

Dogs need to play to learn social rules, but ____ is more than a learning mechanism; 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 ____ to explain that they mean no harm, that it was just in fun.

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

Dogs also communicate about the future in play: they negotiate social hierarchies, can work out tensions and conflicts in a ____ 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 ____ clarification of social bonds.

Percy Spencer was ____ American physicist and inventor.

Born in ____ in 1894, he had limited formal education, leaving school after 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, ____ tubes used to generate microwaves.

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

Intrigued, he experimented further, placing food ____ like popcorn and eggs near the magnetron and observing how they cooked rapidly from the 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, so they were primarily used in restaurants and by ____ military.

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

Our world is 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 ____ particles.

In this world, ____ 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 charged electrons that orbit around it.

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

Negatively charged electrons in ____ atoms of approaching 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 create a model that we call solidity, which is a useful concept ____ 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 ____ 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, ____ isn’t located anywhere. It is in time.

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

We do it in our bodies, 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 ____ thought in a template defined by our own bodies.

And ____ of that, when 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 simple experiment at home to test ____ this mechanism.

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

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

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