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Many students imagine a librarian simply ①sit behind a desk and stamping books. Ms. Han, who has worked at a school library for over ten years, says that image is far from accurate. A large part of her job ②involves choosing which new books to buy, based on both student requests and current trends in youth literature. She also spends hours training students to search databases and judge whether an online source ③is trustworthy, a skill she considers just as important as reading itself. According to Ms. Han, the most rewarding moment is not organizing shelves but watching a student who once avoided reading finally ask for a second book in the same series. She admits that budgets are often tight and that new technology keeps ④changing how libraries operate. Still, she insists that the core purpose of her job has never ⑤changed.

Stairs seem too ordinary ①to be dangerous, which is why many people treat them carelessly, texting, carrying an armful of books, or skipping two steps at a time. Emergency room records tell a different story: falls on stairways ②sends more people to the hospital each year than almost any other household accident. Familiarity encourages a kind of autopilot mode, in which a person stops ③looking at each step and instead relies on memory of where the stairs should be, a habit that ④fails the moment something unexpected occurs, such as a missing step or a loose railing. Safety officials recommend a few unglamorous habits: keep one hand free, use the handrail, and turn on the light before ⑤stepping onto a dark staircase.

Most students only see the final result, a few smooth minutes each morning. Behind that short program, however, broadcasting club members follow a busy daily routine. Members arrive at school thirty minutes earlier than other students ①preparing the studio. They check the microphones, the cameras, and the lighting before anyone else ②arrives. Meanwhile, the script team finalizes the news script that was ③written the night before. Once everything is ready, the anchors ④practice their lines one last time. At exactly eight o'clock, the red light turns on, and the live broadcast begins. During class hours, however, most members return to their regular classroom lessons like everyone else. After school, the club meets again to review that morning's recording and ⑤discuss any mistakes. Through this daily routine, members slowly learn skills such as teamwork and quick thinking under pressure.

Audiobooks have grown rapidly in popularity over the past several years, and many commuters now listen to novels instead of reading printed pages. Publishers report that audiobook sales continue to rise every year, while the growth of printed book sales has ①slowed. Part of the appeal is ②convenience, since listeners can enjoy a story while driving, exercising, or doing housework. Some traditional readers argue that listening to a book is not the same as truly reading it, because the listener does not process written words directly. Researchers who study this question have found that comprehension scores for listeners and readers are usually very ③similar, as long as the material is not too complex. The biggest difference tends to appear with ④dense, technical material, which is often easier to follow in print because readers can pause and reread difficult sentences at will. For most everyday reading, however, the debate over audiobooks may matter less than simply finding a format that keeps people ⑤disengaged with stories.

On January 1st, I decided to become a healthier person and wrote down three goals: exercising three times a week, reading one book every month, and sleeping before midnight. During the first week, I followed my plan without any trouble, but by the second week, I began skipping my morning jogs because I felt too tired after school. That was when I learned that _______________. My friend Mina noticed that I looked discouraged, so she offered to exercise with me after class, and having a partner made the habit much easier to keep. I also moved my book onto my desk instead of my phone, which helped me read a few pages every night. By the end of January, I had finished two books and jogged more than ten times.

Psychologists point to three main reasons why new year's resolutions often fail within a few days. (A) Second, many resolutions are unrealistic from the start, since people set goals that are far too difficult to reach in a short time. (B) First, willpower works like a muscle that becomes tired after being used too much, so people run out of self-control quickly. (C) Third, most resolutions do not offer any immediate reward, which makes it hard to stay motivated without seeing fast results.

Every spring, the art club at Sejong High School creates one large mural together instead of individual paintings. The process begins with a session where members suggest themes and vote on their favorite idea. (A) Therefore, members regularly step back to compare their section with the rest of the mural. After several weekends, the teams combine their sections into a single image, and the finished mural is displayed near the entrance. (B) Once a theme is chosen, the club divides into small teams, each responsible for one section of the wall. One team sketches the outline while another mixes colors to match the design. (C) Communication becomes essential at this stage, since each section must connect smoothly with the ones beside it. If one team paints too dark a shade, the whole picture can look unbalanced.

주어진 문장: At first, she was not sure whether joining a new group would really help, but she decided to give it a try. When Suji transferred to a new school in March, she knew no one in her class and felt lonely during lunch and breaks. Her homeroom teacher suggested joining a club to make friends more easily. ① Suji signed up for the photography club, though she had never taken photography seriously before. ② At the first meeting, older members taught her how to adjust a camera and find a good angle. ③ Because everyone shared photos and gave friendly feedback each week, Suji gradually felt more comfortable with the other members. ④ One rainy afternoon, a fellow member, Hana, invited her to photograph the flooded schoolyard together. They laughed while trying to keep their cameras dry, and that moment grew into a real friendship. ⑤ By the end of the semester, Suji had a small group of friends who understood her sense of humor.

Watching him, it occurred to me that my comics might serve exactly the same quiet purpose. Whenever someone learns that I spend hours drawing comics that almost nobody else ever sees, they usually ask why I bother, since the work will never be published or praised by a large audience. ( ① ) For a long time, I struggled to answer that question honestly, assuming that art only counted as worthwhile once other people recognized it. ( ② ) Watching my younger brother build enormous, pointless block towers purely for the joy of knocking them down, though, helped me understand something I had been missing. ( ③ ) He never once asked whether his tower was good; he simply needed to build the version of it that existed in his head before he could feel satisfied. ( ④ ) Creating something, I now believe, often serves the creator first, giving shape to a feeling or idea that would otherwise stay vague and unexpressed. ( ⑤ ) Whether or not anyone else ever sees the result, that private act of shaping an idea into something real still seems to matter enormously.

That single feature, the ability to undo, turned out to change how boldly people were willing to experiment. Last year our art club received a set of digital drawing tablets, and I assumed switching from paper would feel like cheating, since a screen seemed to remove the physical struggle of real drawing. ( ① ) After a few weeks of practice, though, I noticed the tablet demanded a different kind of skill rather than an easier one. ( ② ) Because there is no paper texture to guide the pen, beginners often press too hard or draw shaky lines until their hand adjusts to the smooth glass surface. ( ③ ) What the tablet does offer is the freedom to undo a mistake instantly and experiment with colors without wasting a single sheet of paper, which encourages artists to take risks they might avoid with a permanent ink pen. ( ④ ) Several club members who once avoided painting because they feared ruining their work now try bold new styles daily. ( ⑤ ) The tool changed, but the patience and observation required to create something meaningful stayed exactly the same.