2027 수능특강 영어 Test 1 빈칸 퀴즈

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He had never thought ____ night sky was interesting.

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

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

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

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

He ____ up.

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

The meteors burned fast, ____ in seconds.

____ eyes widened.

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

____ leaned forward, scanning every corner of the sky.

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

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

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

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

Employee online access rights can and should ____ limited to what 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 large amounts of sensitive information by employees is necessary to ____ business.

The key to ensuring employee adherence to privacy and security measures is to educate them and to develop a practice of ongoing education ____ 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 protecting ____ or confidential information and how their actions affect the security of this information.

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

An odd, ____ interesting trigger I ran across while researching, was 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 the pattern of pain that occurred when using his ____ 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 ____ trigger for the pain!"

He reduces his visual acuity when he closes his eyes, ____ 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 wants and needs, then closing his eyes "cuts out" the ____ of information that triggers his anger, i.e., his eyesight.

Sight is one of the senses that blinds us (Lao ____

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

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

You can, however, ____ to teach decision making 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 people ____ 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 then decide which ____ 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 about which foods are healthy ____ sustainable.

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

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

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

Interestingly, they didn't consider them ____ part of any typical food group.

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

The reaction to lab-grown meats will likely be similar to the ____ 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 products ____ could have environmental and health benefits.

In an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, study subjects were ____ 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 "affect labeling," filling in responses ____ the prompt "I feel ____________," while the other half were asked to complete a neutral shape-matching task.

The affect-labeling group showed steep ____ in 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 ____ structure involved in processing fear and other strong emotions.

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

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

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

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

The onset of World War II in Asia disrupted Raffles College, which ____ converted into a medical facility in 1941.

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

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

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

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

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

According to Baudrillard, social life is ____ 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 ____ they will encounter in their entire school careers.

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

Baudrillard ____ to this 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 ____ 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 ____ task that involves multiple processes differing in automaticity.

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

Sometimes, the words are compatible with the color ____ which 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 ____ task more slowly in incompatible than compatible conditions.

On incompatible trials, people do not intend to respond to the meaning of the ____ (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 to the task at hand and their intention ____ ignore it.

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

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

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

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

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

What my friend dislikes is something being called ____

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

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

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

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

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

____ hates the category, not the actual stuff.

The issue of cultural variation in emotions has ____ 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 ____ what someone from another culture was feeling.

This view received a severe blow from evidence that people from ____ 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: angry, sad, happy, ____ the like.

Ekman and his group traveled all over the ____ showing the photographs to people in widely different cultures, including even some distant tribes that 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 some aspects of emotions are innate and ____

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

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

Instead of waiting ____ 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 able to demonstrate quite convincingly that heavy ____ light objects "fell" at the same rate.

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

Things don't simply fall at a ____ rate: they constantly accelerate.

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

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

One of his ____ 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 would fall to the floor).

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

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

Customization, an event, ____ 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 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 ____ will result in a pair of shoes or a flu 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 ____ the rationalization of giving rather than spending.

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

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

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

Iconic images of flags and coats of arms began to circulate on stamps, but, above all, stamps hosted portraits of the personages considered uniquely suitable to ____ 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 provided ordinary ____ 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 ____ account of some action with a beginning, middle, and end), but they aren't.

A story, as opposed to a plot, is the straightforward account of everything that happens in the ____ 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 just one ____ following another.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Over time, research confirms, this mimicry leads to permanent changes ____ 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 twenty-five years later, on the spouses' ____ wedding anniversary.

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

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

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

Most striking, the ____ 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 ____ to make you feel in sync and strengthen that emotional link that can weaken in times of strife.

In the 1960s, Richard Thompson, a ____ 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 number ____ events.

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the one hand, IT has the potential to increase shared information ____ 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 of ____ publications.

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

That almost ____ 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 ____ interests, you were rarely exposed to conservative news outlets, and vice versa.

In a community where each 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 ____ overall community to function effectively were greatly weakened.

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

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

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 ____ loud "wahoo" calls of male baboons.

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

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

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

And larger ____ are more 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 fights, as these signals accurately reflect physical ____ and size, making them reliable evolutionary indicators of competitive strength.

To demonstrate how our minds have adapted, consider ____ 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 ____ papers on a typewriter.

Their ____ was in finding information.

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

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

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

____ meant waste.

____ to today.

The Baby Boomer challenge of finding information is less relevant ― ____ 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 ____ previous generations of high school students.

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

Their brains are ____ for speed.

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

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 all less ____ 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 idea long enough for it to be a trend; it's just zipping by or ____