공통영어1 비상 홍민표 1과 본문 빈칸 테스트

Welcome to a new season of High ____ Magazine.

To start off the new school year on the right foot, we asked some of our recent graduates to give us tips on ____ to succeed in the coming year and beyond.

Compare Apples to ____

In high school, everyone ____ me how talented an artist I was, so I dreamed of becoming an illustrator.

In university, though, everyone seemed much more talented than me, and they all worked so hard that I felt small in ____.

I thought about ____ up my dream of becoming an artist.

Then one ____, I happened to see a drawing I had won an award for from middle school on the kitchen wall.

I was embarrassed because it wasn’t very ____.

People say you ____ compare apples to oranges, and they’re right.

That’s ____ it doesn’t make sense to compare yourself to Internet personalities or even people in your real life.

Maybe they had an advantage, or even a disadvantage, that you ____

If you are ____ to compare yourself to anyone, the only fair comparison is “yesterday-you.”

Only you know where you started and how much effort ____ put in.

I ____ see the progress in my ability when I only compared myself to others.

Everyone develops ____.

I’m able to see ____ the drawing in the kitchen was full of mistakes that I no longer make.

It is empowering to see how I ____ improved rather than to envy the success of others.

Your competition ____ the person next door or the influencer on social media: it’s you.

Do ____ share your opinion in class discussions, or do you just stay silent and keep it to yourself?

Like many of you, I ____ found myself in the second group.

A little ____ hole inside of me swallowed my voice when I considered speaking up.

The consequences of ____ ridiculed or being wrong were always on my mind.

Then, after a particularly heated ____ in class, I asked myself, “What am I afraid of?”

I was scared that bad things would happen, but I ____ thought about good things.

When I noticed others taking risks, I ____ that I needed to do the same in order to participate.

Many people are scared to speak up, but a lot of them do it anyway because they think it’s ____ it.

So I left my ____ zone and started to speak up.

I grew intellectually and ____ by expressing myself more clearly.

I got closer to friends who ____ how open I was with them.

____ I have more people with whom I can talk, share my ideas, and learn new things.

Remember, taking the risk of expressing yourself ____ be extremely rewarding in unexpected ways.

As I worked through my second year into my third in college, I had more troubles balancing school and ____ life.

I would ____ excited, anxious, worried, and bored all at once and then separately.

I would get exhausted when I had to write a report for my courses, mediate a disaster between ____, and respond to the comments on my online journal.

I was drowning in a ____ of responsibilities, concerns, and anxieties, and that was when I read an article with a simple insight.

The article advised me to draw two big ____, with myself in the center.

The smaller circle is my circle of ____, and I have direct control over the things inside it: what I eat and drink, how I behave, or what I do after school.

The bigger circle is called my circle of concern: things I worry about but have no ____ control over.

For example, I have no direct control over how my professor will react to my report, but I do have control over the amount of ____ I do for it.

Believing that everything was in my circle of ____ left me stressed out and constantly exhausted.

By wasting less ____ on my circle of concern, I was able to invest more energy into things that mattered.

I no longer worry about what my ____ think, and I focus on my own actions.

I don’t get anxious over what might be on the test, and instead I ____ in every effort to understand the concepts themselves.

Now, I only put my mental and physical energy into my circle of influence: ____ healthy, staying in shape, and working hard.