공통영어1 비상 홍민표 1과 본문 빈칸 테스트

____ to a new season of High School Magazine.

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

____ Apples to Apples

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

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

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

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

I was embarrassed because ____ wasn’t very good.

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

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

Maybe they had an advantage, or even a disadvantage, that ____ didn’t.

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

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

I couldn’t see the progress in my ability when ____ only compared myself to others.

Everyone develops ____

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

____ is empowering to see how I have 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 you share your opinion in class discussions, or do you ____ stay silent and keep it to yourself?

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

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

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

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

I ____ scared that bad things would happen, but I never thought about good things.

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

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

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

I grew intellectually and socially by expressing myself more ____

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

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

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

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

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

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 ____ to draw two big circles, with myself in the center.

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

The bigger circle is called ____ circle of concern: things I worry about but have no direct 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 research I do for ____

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

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

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

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

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